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Simply put, sorry no.
I hope that one day your tagging won't be wasted, however the folder names don't matter to the music library at all, name then however you like.
Not only does Kodi only sort by year, but it only stores year in the database as well. I hope to do something about that for v19, make better use of the various date related tags, give users some flexibility. I would also love to rework sorting - do it in db not memory, allow user more configureability of sorts etc. - but that is a lot of work, so no timescales set for it.
But that is all jam tomorrow....
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There are very few artists that are so prolific in their output that sorting by anything other than year would make sense. Musicbrainz is also inconsistent in using year, year-month or year-month-day for date related tags. Other services never use anything but year. Personally I cannot see a reason for more finegrained sorting in Kodi and won't ever expect it.
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I do not use Piccard, but I agree with your suggestions: for mp3 music files use ID3 2.4 tags if possible. That gives best results in Kodi 19. For the dates, 2.4 has TDRC and TDOR tags which provide the ISO yyyy-mm-dd formats. You might also check out mp3tag tagging program. The author is German (Dresden) and there is a forum in Deutsch.
scott s.
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