New user Q - scripting for Plex - date sorting, and empty dates

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Hi folks. I’ve been wading into Picard for the first time, and have the very standard script you see below. My goal is to “unify” metadata and sorting of an already pretty tidy collection of music albums, for use in Plex. I have a couple of questions based on my script:

1. 
   For an unreleased album or demo, or anything that otherwise doesn’t really have a date (which is rare for my collection of mostly classic rock albums), how does Plex handle that? My script handles an empty just fine, I’m just wondering what the knock on effect will be in Plex. Is there a benefit to forcing in 0000 as a date? Which leads me to my other Q…
   
   
2. 
   My current script moves the bracketed date to the front, so my albums sort in a tidy way from older to newer on my Mac. I figure if I’m going to date the albums, it might as well be usable outside of Plex too. Is that common with folks here? Is there any downside to putting the date first? For Movies and TV, Plex often puts the date at the end, but Music seems a different beast.
   

Thanks, more questions incoming surely

$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/ $if(%originaldate%, \($left(%originaldate%,4)\),%originaldate%) $if($ne(%albumartist%,),%album%)/$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%)$num(%tracknumber%,2) - %title%

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