Is it possible to extract the "YEAR" tag from the last modification date of the original audio file data?

[RMnimda]

Hello,

I am new to the forum and thank you for all your help in advance.
(I have been working with audio for 30 years, - so is not new to me)

My question is as the title says, I have to "tag" the old audio material of a radios database with TAG, unfortunately there is no date information next to any of them, in fact no TAG at all... .

What I have is the name of the original file (in more or less good format) that was used to create the ARTIST/TITLE "TAG" - that was fine.

The date of the last modifications is also in the file info, but not in the name!
Is there some way to get TAG information from this date - at least just the "YEAR" tag?

I've searched a lot on this theme but I can't find anything - thanks if anyone has experience with this and can share it with me.

The PRTSC below shows what I want to implement and where from, this is the dBa data displayed, - and any windows file manager will show it as well.

[ohrenkino]

There is a property variable %_file_mod_date%
It depends a little on your local OS settings what the output looks like, (I get e.g. 09.06.2025)
But if your output starts with the 4-digit year already, then try
an action of the type "Format value" or Convert>Tag-Tag for YEAR
Format string: $num(%_file_mod_date%,1)

[RMnimda]

Thanks for your prompt reply.
I'll dive into this a bit tomorrow and report back.
I have more than 100K of these sound files, where I need to at least get the year out

Otherwise the OS is in "Hungarian" time format as below: YYYY.MM.DD / hours/minutes/seconds

[RMnimda]

Hi @ohrenkino

Thanks for your quick help, “%_file_mod_date%” did what I wanted it to do...