How to quickly find out the original release date of an album or a track

[redwing]

It's not easy to get the exact original release date of an album or a track. Even Musicbrainz does not offer that information for every album/track, not to mention other music databases.

I think Google has been doing a great job helping people to find this information at least for widely popular songs. So you could create custom web links on the track information panel and then quickly find out the information for either selected or playing album/track just by one click.

First, use this for album release date:

Code

https://www.google.com/search?q=<Album Artist> <Album> release date

Then Google will show you something like this:


Now this is for an individual track included in compilations:

Code

https://www.google.com/search?q=<Artist> <Title> release date

Then it will show something like this: