Sort by Original Year, or Year if not specified

[TateB]

I am trying to sort albums by Artist, Original Year, and, if Original Year is unspecified, by Year.  The intent is to sort so that live albums are situated at the time that they are originally recorded, rather than the year of release, as well as for reissues.  However, I can't get it to sort by Original Year.

My Custom Sort is Album Artist / Original Year / Year.  When I sort on this basis, it just sorts by Album Artist / Year.

[psychoadept]

Is Original Year given a value for all files? If not, you'll probably get the results you want if you combine them with a virtual tag, something like $IsNull(<Original Year>,<Year>,<Original Year>). Then your sort order would be Album Artist \ Sort Year (or whatever you call the virtual tag).

[TateB]

That worked like a charm (and is also my first virtual tag!) - thanks so much!

[psychoadept]

Awesome, glad you got it working

[hamlet35]

This worked for me as well!  Thanks!