# Year of tracks first release irrespective of later versions

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-of-tracks-first-release-irrespective-of-later-versions/69650
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 8, 2025, 7:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-of-tracks-first-release-irrespective-of-later-versions/69650 "2025-09-08T07:54:53Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-of-tracks-first-release-irrespective-of-later-versions/69650/2 "2025-09-08T07:59:22Z")

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See e.g. this thread:

> [@Release year of a song](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-year-of-a-song/41998):
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> Hi, When it comes to my music collection I was always fully "artist & title" oriented guy, while not giving any notion to albums. I never cared nor collected albums, actually I probably don't have a single complete album. If there's a single song on the album I don't like, I just remove it. That being said, I used MP3Tag to strip away all (for me) the trash from my FLAC audio files, living only Artist, Album, Year & Genre, and it worked wonderfully! During all these years I've been collecting…

or this one:

> [@VA - get year!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/va-get-year/15985):
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> Hi! I have this large collection of mp3s which actually is a mix of songs I collected along the years. The files are tagged with ARTIST and TITLE only. Is it possible for mp3tag to find those songs' YEAR on discogs/amazon/last fm? Please note the files are a MIX (various artists), not an album. I just would like them to have the songs' year. Thank you!

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