I want to start of by saying that I am unsure if this is a bug with mp3tag or mutagen. When tagging YEAR in mp3tag, it does not show up when reading the file in mutagen (TDRC, or anything else) unless the tag is specifically in yyyy format (where it shows as TDRC). I'm not saying it is stripped to…

[image] swept1: So I'm not sure who the culprit is. Mutagen is. MP3tag shows whatever the contents of that field is. On the other hand: YEAR is supposed to be nothing but a 4-digit-number, so mutagen complies with the standard. The format with more than just 4 digits is, if you follow the id…

Maybe you also have a look at this: [image] DATE vs YEAR General Discussion Don't know if it rather should be a bug report so post it here. Recently I've tried to add the following tags to some of my mp3s: DATE = 2010-01-28 YEAR = 2010 (which is pretty logical and cons…

Looks like an issue with ID3 v2.3 to me. Note that there is no TDRC vor 2.3, that is a 2.4 frame. For 2.3 there are two separate frames for year (TYER) and day and month (TDAT) . Not exactly sure how MP3Tag handles this, according to Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation it only uses TYER. If th…

On the other hand: YEAR is supposed to be nothing but a 4-digit-number, so mutagen complies with the standard. The format with more than just 4 digits is, if you follow the id3 standard, an invalid format. @ohrenkino I don't understand, because: TDRC The 'Recording time' frame contains a time…

Just tested it. Indeed Mp3tag will just write the entire date string, e.g. 2020-01-01, into TYER @phw In which field? When I do this in YEAR, mutagen doesn't show this anywhere, so IDK where it's being mapped. edit: Are you saying that mp3tag maps YEAR to TYER but mutagen is just programmed to s…

update: i think i understand now. let me know if not: for ID3v2.3, mp3tag maps YEAR to TYER (right?), but mutagen will show it as TDRC. so even though TDRC is a timestamp field, TYER (which it is actually mapped to) only accepts yyyy. but if you only use yyyy in YEAR, mutagen will show the year in …

Yes, I think you got it right. So in ID3 v2.3 Mp3tag will write whatever you write to YEAR into TYER. But Mutagen will only read read this (and make it available as TDRC) if it follows the specs and includes only a year. That's why Mutagen showed 2020 when you entered 2020 (follows the spec), but no…

I am tempted to stay on ID3v2.3 and use RELEASETIME instead of YEAR on ID3v2.4 because based on what I've seen, 2.4 is not widely adopted. So I thought maybe I can create a mapping in mp3tag that will automatically put anything I store in YEAR as RELEASETIME (similar to how DATE will go to YEAR and …

I can't really recommend you one over the other. I personally would go with ID3 v2.4. But check that the soft and hardware you use supports it. If the idea with the remapping works staying with ID3 2.3 is also fine, as you say compatibility is still better (which is a shame in 2020). Maybe it's als…

ID3v2.3 YEAR/TDRC not working with mutagen

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