# Weird things happening with the Year field **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 6, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427 "2013-02-06T01:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/1 "2013-02-06T01:54:36Z")
I'll use the / to separate the original release year from the remastered/re-released year eg "1974 / 2009". It didn't work yesterday work for a while today and no it's stopped again. Any idea to what the problem may be? ---
**Author:** ![mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/2 "2013-02-06T02:26:27Z")
Mp3tag use the "\\" for defining Multiple Values and not "/" Edit: \*\ Something strange, I can't seem to add a MultiValue tag with "\\" for Year, no problem doing this for genre, but not year ! Here screenshots of adding the Multvalues ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/18d470f6ed9d927a300b9e709d3bc6c163c50a93.JPG) And here the extended Tags after Saving ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb2a892a099f2c0528864de06ef62c8618760203.JPG) ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/18d470f6ed9d927a300b9e709d3bc6c163c50a93.JPG) ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb2a892a099f2c0528864de06ef62c8618760203.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/3 "2013-02-06T02:59:58Z")
> [@Marcabove](#): > > I'll use the / to separate the original release year from the remastered/re-released year eg "1974 / 2009". It didn't work yesterday work for a while today and no it's stopped again.Any idea to what the problem may be? The origin for the detected behaviour seems to be there ... "History of changes" [2012-10-24] REL: VERSION 2.53 (for Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7) [2012-09-29] CHG: ID3v2.3 TYER/TDAT now merged into one YEAR field formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. ... and see also ... [http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0](http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0) DD.20130206.0454.CET ---
**Author:** ![Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/4 "2013-02-06T04:21:32Z")
I copied this out of one that I didn't earlier today that worked "1986 / 2008". ---
**Author:** ![mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/5 "2013-02-06T04:38:56Z")
I did some tests just with Year Field to satisfy my curiosity. (Note only used mp3, with ID3v2.3 and ID3v1 and very important Mp3tag Version _ **2.54** _ !!) 2010/2011 result Year Empty 2010//2011 result Year Empty 2010 / 2011 result Year Empty 2010 \ 2011 result Year Empty 2010\2011 result Year Empty 2010\\2011 result Year only contains 2011 2010-01-01\\2011-01-01 result Year only contains 2011-01-01 2010,2011 result Year Empty 2010 , 2011 result Year Empty 2010 2011 result Year Empty ---
**Author:** ![Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/6 "2013-02-23T03:04:39Z")
OK if this helps the / separating the years returns a blank field in mp3 but works correctly for flacs. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-things-happening-with-the-year-field/14427/7 "2026-02-09T12:24:19Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC