There really needs to be some forward ground made on the software side of things to incorporate that info into the digital packaging and getting the various software vendors who produce the media players to make it accessible inside the media players.

I’d guess the biggest reason for the download only releases is that it’s a lot more cost efficient. Don’t have to pay to print and press a bunch of CDs that may or may not sell out. Tunecore can get a record into iTunes and a ton of other online music stores for so cheap that it’s hard to imagine any company doing reissues any other way especially given that Bluegrass is till a very niche genre in the big picture.