feat: use `originalReleaseDate` and set `year` to edition year about gonic HOT 4 OPEN

i agree it's the right thing to do. maybe we can get dsub to respect originalReleaseDate in the far future

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i see. i definitely prefer the current behaviour personally. when i look at an artists discography i'd like to see it in chronological order, regardless of when a particular reissue or remaster came out. and legacy clients only look at the "year" field

but i see the point. you propose that we make gonic's current year to be originalReleaseDate, and year be the edition year

we can do that, just unfortunate that clients like dsub will show artist's discographies in a weird order (assuming no config option, which i'd rather not add)

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The main issue with the current behavior is that it forces a certain behavior without allowing the alternative.

If year would return the year like it used to, users who want to use original years can do so by simply setting it to the original year.
Now that year returns original_year, to get gonic to return me the original year, I can either:

• delete original_year from the tags, thus losing information
• swap the values of original_year and year, which is quite silly

I can see why you'd want to avoid introducing a config option for such a small change, but I wouldn't call it "weird order", for some people, that is the correct order :)

If you want to keep the current behavior, I can patch it out locally, just thought that now that opensubsonic exists, it might be nice to use some of the features.

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Great, let me know if you'd like help implementing/testing it.

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