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General Discussion / View based on filesystem creation time?
« on: October 03, 2026, 07:39:03 PM »
I have a wee problem with some playlists I made based on the time when the MP3 was created (on NTFS).
For instance, I created views for song addedd (aka created) today, this week, and this month, and so on, but it's not giving me what I want.
In an ideal world, the FS timestamp 'Creation time' should also be a field in the query builder
Now there's FILETIME, but what is meant by 'Last known file date/time on disk' is unclear to me.
And there's also LASTUPD and DATEADDED we can use, but the first one seems a bit ambiguous.
I've experimented with changing the timestamps myself (PowerShell or a GUI can be used to manipulate the common 3 ones). Still, it seems like the library import date is used instead of the real file creation date, giving a different result.
When reinstalling Windows and rescanning my whole collection of files, they're all imported on the same day, so I can't really use this.
Perhaps there already is a workaround I'm unaware of? Because the other time-related fields, like [1 week ago], are really handy for stuff like this.
I also use Clementine from time to time, mainly because of its multiple playlists, and there the file created parameter in the query builder is the correct one.
For instance, I created views for song addedd (aka created) today, this week, and this month, and so on, but it's not giving me what I want.
In an ideal world, the FS timestamp 'Creation time' should also be a field in the query builder
Now there's FILETIME, but what is meant by 'Last known file date/time on disk' is unclear to me.
And there's also LASTUPD and DATEADDED we can use, but the first one seems a bit ambiguous.
I've experimented with changing the timestamps myself (PowerShell or a GUI can be used to manipulate the common 3 ones). Still, it seems like the library import date is used instead of the real file creation date, giving a different result.
When reinstalling Windows and rescanning my whole collection of files, they're all imported on the same day, so I can't really use this.
Perhaps there already is a workaround I'm unaware of? Because the other time-related fields, like [1 week ago], are really handy for stuff like this.
I also use Clementine from time to time, mainly because of its multiple playlists, and there the file created parameter in the query builder is the correct one.
