[mb-users] [unknown date]

[Aaron Cooper]

On 10-Jan-08, at 2:57 PM, Chris B wrote:

> On 10/01/2008, Rob Keeney <largo84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have many old vinyl, 78s and cassettes that have a label and cat#
>> but no verifiable release year. Currently, you can't enter a release
>> event without a date. How feasible would it be to allow [unknown  
>> date]
>> to be an option? The only way to include this information now is via
>> release annotations. While that's fine, the information does not show
>> up in any of the label release lists because it's not in the  
>> database.
>> Suppose you could look over a list of releases by a label and you
>> could easily see the ones that were missing dates. Then, if this
>> information were later to be found it would be easy to add.
>>
>> Does anyone else see the merit in having this as an option?
>
> definitely needed, though i'd sooner we were just allowed to add
> labels/cat#s/etc without dates, rather than having to enter [unknown
> date] or that coming up when we don't enter a date - i think it would
> be better to just be blank (apologies if that was your intention!).

I like this idea better, too - no date rather than [unknown date].

-Aaron (cooperaa)