Bug 7738 – Year tags with more than 4 characters are showing as unknown

Bug 7738 - Year tags with more than 4 characters are showing as unknown

Summary:

Year tags with more than 4 characters are showing as unknown

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Tagging
Version:	7.0.1
Platform:	PC Windows Vista

Importance:	-- enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Unassigned bug - please assign me!

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Reported:	2008-04-04 22:32 UTC by Jeff Flowerday
Modified:	2008-04-06 22:52 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Flowerday 2008-04-04 22:32:15 UTC

All my WMA lossless files have been ripped with dbpoweramp.  dbpoweramp stored the year with more information than just year on certain albums.

Information could be:

1996
or
1996 08
or
1996 08 12

** The first 4 character are always the year.

It would be nice if the scanner would take the first 4 characters of the year if it doesn't recognize it as a valid date or as greater than 4 character.  This hasn't been an issue for me till I got my duet.  WMP11 and Itunes and most other software recognize the first 4 characters as the year.

This change would sure be appreciated, I would like to retain this information without having to touch all my files by moving the information into another tag.

Comment 1 Michael Herger 2008-04-06 22:52:05 UTC

If we implemented this, next would be the European which have the year at the end (dd.mm.yyyy), with or without dots, slashes etc. It's just too much of a hassle fixing all the other applications' bugs. A year with more than four digit's is still almost 8000 years ahead ;-)