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incandenza

Show original year of album release

Status: Not right now
by incandenza on ‎16-02-2012 10:23 AM

I'd like to be able to see the date an album was originally released, even if the current version is a re-release. So many albums are re-released that for some artists it looks like all of their albums came out in the last few years, even though some of them may actually be a decade old or older.

 

When this happens, I wind up just having to go to Wikipedia or Allmusic to find out the real info. But why drive me away from the Spotify experience?

Status: Not right now

 

Hello folks,

 

We really understand this fact could be really frustrating -we really do- but remastered versions of albums are rarely released the same year as the original.

As many of you know we receive all of our content and its metadata (content metadata tells us when the album was released, as well as other information) from the rights holders, also many of you know we have a rather large catalog of music. So, at the moment to display the original released date will require manual change of the tracks metadata.

We might come back to this at some time in the future but for now we will mark this idea as "Not right now". I hope you can all understand it,

 

Thanks a lot for your contribution here, you all make Spotify much better with your feedback. :)

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by MattSuda on ‎17-02-2012 12:48 AM
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I agree! This is so annoying!

by Smashbox on ‎17-02-2012 06:53 PM
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Agreed - this is my biggest annoyance w/ the service

by czechokeflavik on ‎17-02-2012 07:02 PM
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Me too. Albums are organized by year, but what is the significance of the year? It should be the original release date.

by bradavon on ‎18-02-2012 05:24 AM
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Agreed. It's really annoying. I'm always having to go to the likes of Wikipedia to find out the proper order.

 

I appreciate it's done by "re-release" year but when the album is identical it's rather pointless.

by sekuether21 on ‎18-02-2012 04:37 PM
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List the original release date for albums that have been rereleased - allow sorting on original release dates

by on ‎18-02-2012 04:54 PM
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Agree with this. It's a pain trying to sort through an artists work when the date listed against them all is the same just because they've only just been listed (or remastered, or re-released, or ...)

by bradavon on ‎18-02-2012 06:45 PM
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This has already been suggested: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas-and-Feedback/Show-original-year-of-album-release/idi-...

 

Please search :-). Could this thread be locked so support can be consolidated into one thread. I agree btw, it's very annoying.

by on ‎18-02-2012 07:21 PM
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This has just been duplicated by http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas-and-Feedback/Show-original-year-of-album-release/idi-p...

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by on ‎18-02-2012 07:22 PM
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Yeah, sorry, just noticed that this is a dup

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by akrde on ‎19-02-2012 12:27 PM
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Original release date timeline selection for genre radios would be a stroke of genius!!!

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