I'm starting a new topic here and will paraphrase what I asked previously:
If you click on a forum user's name it will show you their profile page including the date they last visited. The person you were specifically addressing hasn't logged in since May.
This is a pretty active forum, so if no one has replied to your earlier post it's usually because no one has yet come up with a good answer, not because it needs more exposure.
Now there's two active threads with the same topic which might split any replies between them.I've used Windows Media Player for over 20 years, and I'm accustomed to sorting my music files in my music player library by "Date Created"; i.e., the date I first acquired, ripped, downloaded, etc. the file and added it to my Windows Music folder, NOT the date it was added to the player library. "Date Created" is, of course, listed in a specific music file's Properties in Windows Explorer, under the General tab. Yet, MB does not appear to automatically read the Date Created data, and it is not available as a possible Displayed Field or shown in Tag Inspector.
I wouldn't have thought using Windows'
Date Created property for any kind of sorting or organisation was very reliable. This date can be updated for reasons besides the original file creation - restoring a copy from a backup for example. So
Date Created can often be more recent than
Date Modified or MusicBee's own
Date Added. If you've been using it in Media Player and it works for you, I guess that's all that matters. *shrug*
In searching the forum, I've seen some comments that it's just not possible to do this in MB, but in the old topic link above, user boroda seemed to suggest that the Tag Tools plug-in could be used to do this sorting. Might I get the latest opinions on whether this can be done and, if it can, how? Thanks!
If you download the
Additional Tagging Tools plugin and copy it to your MusicBee
Plugins folder, you'll get the new menu item
Tools > Additional Tagging Tools > Copy Tag.... This can copy Windows'
Date Created property to a custom tag in MusicBee which you could then sort on. Search the forum for posts about "Custom Tags" if needed. A nice thing about this is that if you store the tag value with the file itself, you will always have a record of that original date regardless of whether you copy or move the file around between drives etc.
MusicBee won't treat it any differently than any other tag, so your workflow will need to include a step to set this each time you add new music - MusicBee won't update it or set it automatically.
Bee excellent to each other...
Topic: Can Music Files Be Sorted by Date Created? (Read 1639 times)