Regarding Adding the Year - Example 2015, 1980

[mrcd]

Is there a way to allow a reissue date and the original date of a CD to exist together such as 2015, 1980 in the year section of CD Ripper?

[Spoon]

Re: Regarding Adding the Year - Example 2015, 1980

No, year is designed to hold one value only.

[mville]

Re: Regarding Adding the Year - Example 2015, 1980

Is there a way to allow a reissue date and the original date of a CD to exist together such as 2015, 1980 in the year section of CD Ripper?

When ripping to flac, I use Year for the original recording release date and manually add a tag called Release Date for the CD release date. So, in your case I'd set:

Year to 1980
Release Date to 2015

I came to this decision purely because iTunes uses Year and Release Date. When I convert my flacs to mp3, iTunes picks up both dates.

[RoyalEF]

Re: Regarding Adding the Year - Example 2015, 1980

YEAR is per song (and I set the year of release on each song in a Greatest Hits compilation).
If there were unreleased tracks or new tracks, I leave them with the CD's actual release year. With some of the new cool releases like the 2CD Cherry Pop CD re-issues, I would consider putting that info in the Label field. "Cherry Pop Records re-issue CRPOPD 54 (2010)"

I'm not sure how common "Release Date" is. dBpoweramp doesn't list it.

[mville]

Re: Regarding Adding the Year - Example 2015, 1980

I'm not sure how common "Release Date" is. dBpoweramp doesn't list it.

It isn't common. It's just that I want 2 dates, original recording release date and the CD release date. As mentioned previously, I chose 'Release Date' because iTunes uses it.