A recent motherboard failure forced me to completely recreate my iTunes library. Now every track in iTunes shows that restore date as the date that track was added to iTunes. It would be nice to have correct, or even approximately correct dates for all tracks, if possible. Oddly enough, the other date fields for the tracks are still valid.

One approach might be to examine all the other Date fields: Last Played, Purchase Date, Last Skipped, Date Modified, and use the earliest valid date found as the Date Added value.

Having the correct Date Added values has some significant sentimental value to me. It reminds me of what was going on in my life, where I was, who I was with, etc. when looking at my iTunes library. A lot of important milestones in my life are associated with the music I was listening to at that time, so having correct (or approximately correct) is important to me.

Thanks