Quote Originally Posted by JohnsonbI4
when I switch to entire collection in table view it shows release date column and year column. in both of them the year is the same, though I fill the field "release date" and don't see "year" field anywhere. where is the year field? besides, recording date and release date are not neccessary the same, you know...
The Year field is essentially same as Release Date. For example, if you put "28.02.82" in the Release Date field, the Year will display "1982". Same with "February 28th, 1982" and "1982". This is an automatic process, you cannot set Year explicitly.

Recording Date, however, is totally different field. Note also that you can display all these fields as separate columns in the album list: Release Date, Year and Recording Date.