Album Year vs. Track Year

[Stuart Neill]

Thus far, I have refrained from any Amarok 2 knocking to allow it to settle in 
and give the developers a chance to show a reasonably complete product. Today 
however I read something in a GSOC thread that leads me to believe that Amarok 
2 may never replace Amarok 1 in my affections.

"The year tag is stored in the album table and not in the track table"

One of the joys of Amarok was that I could select on the year, shuffle (both the 
tracks and myself :-) ) and party like it was ... um 1939, 1949 ...2009. This 
will not now be possible.

For almost all single-artist compilation albums and for many multi-artist 
compilation albums, the album release date is of minor importance when 
compared with the original release date. Personally, I find it a little 
disconcerting to see Fred Astaire, Edith Piaff, Elvis Presley etc. only 
appearing alongside dates long after they joined "the choir invisible".

I would like the schema to be changed. However, as neither the developers nor 
users seem to have identified this issue as a problem, I wonder how many other 
users habitually tag dates at track level. 

-- 
Stuart Neill