Browsing albums by date acquired?

nelson · Post by **nelson** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:23 pm

Is there some way to get MediaMonkey to show me a list of all my albums sorted by the timestamp on the MP3 files? I'd like to look at something like "show me all the music I bought last month". I've already set up MediaMonkey to not change the timestamps when it updates tags, so all my timestamps are still intact.

I've got Gold if that matters. Also happy to write some custom Python scripts to build playlists, but not sure how to best integrate this into MediaMonkey.

drjboulder · Post by **drjboulder** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:27 pm

You can just sort by Date Added by clicking on that header in the track browser (If it is not there... Right click on title bar and select it)
Alternately, you could make an Auto-Playlist that sorts by Date added.

nelson · Post by **nelson** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:55 pm

Thanks for the reply. There's a "timestamp" column too that's even better than "added" for me, since it goes back before I was using MediaMonkey. Unfortunately both views give me a per-track view of my music rather than per-album, but it's better than nothing.

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:43 pm

nelson wrote:Thanks for the reply. There's a "timestamp" column too that's even better than "added" for me, since it goes back before I was using MediaMonkey. Unfortunately both views give me a per-track view of my music rather than per-album, but it's better than nothing.

How could an album consisting of several files have a timestamp?

Owyn · Post by **Owyn** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:21 am

nohitter151 wrote:
nelson wrote:Thanks for the reply. There's a "timestamp" column too that's even better than "added" for me, since it goes back before I was using MediaMonkey. Unfortunately both views give me a per-track view of my music rather than per-album, but it's better than nothing.
How could an album consisting of several files have a timestamp?

Date+Time ripped

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am

Owyn wrote:
nohitter151 wrote:
nelson wrote:Thanks for the reply. There's a "timestamp" column too that's even better than "added" for me, since it goes back before I was using MediaMonkey. Unfortunately both views give me a per-track view of my music rather than per-album, but it's better than nothing.
How could an album consisting of several files have a timestamp?
Date+Time ripped

They would still all be ripped at different (albeit close) times, so they couldn' have the same value.

Owyn · Post by **Owyn** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:32 am

Yep. What I was trying to say is that the time stamp would have to be reduced to a date stamp.

nelson · Post by **nelson** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:59 pm

My MP3s are stored one album per folder. So the creation time of the folder might work (but not the modification time). Or a heuristic about a group of songs all timestamped nearby and in the same folder.

More generally I work with music entirely on a per-album basis, but MediaMonkey and every other music app I've ever used treats music on a per-song basis. It's just the way things are, and MM mostly works fine for me. Maybe I need to put more work into creating Virtual CDs.