Just a thought, but how about a button on the Select by Artist/Genre screen that lets you select by Year? We already have the year folder being generated, and we have the room on the screen to add another button. This way, you could pick say, 1985, and all the albums you have that were released in that year would be filtered to show.
Anyway, just a thought.
The button is there just hidden. Config 3 doesn't generate the year files which is why i had not enabled it. It will be in a future version.