Show album release year on Now Playing screen

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[apologies if this is a dupe, I didn't see it when searching but then all the terms are too common to really narrow a search...]

 

odd that it's not there already, but it's definitely not, either on the server [viz. the :z-f: pic] or the Roku [viz. Follakzoid] Now Playing screens.

 

Since some of my original searching brought up a few places saying "this is because your music isn't tagged with year", also including screenshots showing my music is indeed tagged correctly in the year field.

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Hi, yes this is a nice idea. AFAIK, this is not currently possible, even if you have all your tagging correct. I wanted it myself, going back a while ago, so added the Year to the Album name (e.g.) "Let It Be (1970)". The end-result is this:

As I didn't want to do this manually for all my Albums, I created an Action in Mp3tag to do this automatically.

I expect there would be other methods as well? You could run something like this on many Albums at once. If the Year has already been added, it won't add it a second time. Therefore you won't end up with something like "Let It Be (1970) (1970)".

While it is a workaround, at least it shows the information. Cheers!