Original year from....
Original year from....
Does anyone know of a good source for original year on a per track basis? I'd like to spend 10-15 minutes tagging 30,000+ tracks with the original year
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10-15 minutes to get the original year for a whole collection?!!
Man, more often than not I spend that kind of time PER SONG!
IMO 'original year' is one of the most interesting but also most difficult fields to populate.
Sources I use, pretty much in order of importance:
1. allmusic (almost useless for music outside the anglo-saxon realm)
2. wikipedia (not always reliable)
3. google, used in several ways:
- searching for an artist's official homepage / a good fanpage and hoping for a biography or complete discography
- searching for lyrics
- searching for charts for that particular music genre
4. discogs
5. the Joel Whitburn chart book (or rather, one of the XLS files that circulate every now and then on alt.binaries.sounds.whitburn.pop)
Man, more often than not I spend that kind of time PER SONG!
IMO 'original year' is one of the most interesting but also most difficult fields to populate.
Sources I use, pretty much in order of importance:
1. allmusic (almost useless for music outside the anglo-saxon realm)
2. wikipedia (not always reliable)
3. google, used in several ways:
- searching for an artist's official homepage / a good fanpage and hoping for a biography or complete discography
- searching for lyrics
- searching for charts for that particular music genre
4. discogs
5. the Joel Whitburn chart book (or rather, one of the XLS files that circulate every now and then on alt.binaries.sounds.whitburn.pop)
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