# Year edit and Foobar player date column
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262 "2025-01-24T10:51:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/1 "2025-01-24T10:51:12Z")
When editing out full date in Year to only year it still shows full date in Foobar Date. Or sometimes it shows just year in Year and full date appears in Foobar Date. Annoying...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/2 "2025-01-24T11:14:37Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> Annoying...
Is this just a statement showing your opinion?
Is this a question about Foobar functions?
What do you think MP3tag can do about your problem?
Real examples would shed a lot more light on the case then, preferably with screenshots.
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/3 "2025-01-24T11:31:56Z")
In the Year (År) if there's like "2025-01-10" and I delete "-01-10" it still shows full date in Foobar so Mp3tag doesn't do it correct.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/4 "2025-01-24T11:34:19Z")
Could you please show us the screenshot of the extended tags dialogue Alt-T for this file?
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/5 "2025-01-24T12:13:26Z")
New file, original state.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/6 "2025-01-24T12:27:42Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> New file, original state.
Looks to me like the data is displayed equally in both programs
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/7 "2025-01-24T12:37:55Z")
Check your collection for files that have the fields YEAR and DATE.
And also see whether you have files with APE tags but for which you do not update the APE tags.
Foobar puts the values of YEAR (TYER) and DATE (TDAT) together into 1 field.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/8 "2025-01-24T12:40:44Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> In the Year (År) if there's like "2025-01-10" and I delete "-01-10" it still shows full date in Foobar so Mp3tag doesn't do it correct.
Do you save your changes?
`CTRL-S` or  or `Menue File -> Save Tag`
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/9 "2025-01-24T13:30:44Z")
yes, at this point before I change in mp3tag
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/10 "2025-01-24T13:32:54Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> before I change in mp3tag
And now it would interesting to see the result after the change - a selected single file is better as the extended tags dialogue then also shows tag version information.
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/11 "2025-01-24T13:35:52Z")
Yes, this is after changes and save.
Then sometimes it still has the full date in Foobar
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/12 "2025-01-24T13:37:50Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> Then sometimes it still has the full date in Foobar
And what could be the pattern for this "sometimes"?
Could you check
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> your collection for files that have the fields YEAR and DATE.
and then see if these are the files in which Foobar shows more than you want.
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/13 "2025-01-24T13:41:33Z")
OK, I only use mp3 in the library and use mp3tag to organize/edit tags.
FairStars Audio Converter Pro for converting FLAC/APE...to mp3...
So mp3tag doesn't deal with all the date tags?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/14 "2025-01-24T13:43:52Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> So mp3tag doesn't deal with all the date tags?
How do you get that idea?
What was the result of the check for the DATE field?
Use a filter
`%date% PRESENT`
and if there are any files in the file list, then check in Foobar if these are the files which show more than you want
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/15 "2025-01-24T13:47:03Z")
I can't see any other place to edit the "Year" in mp3tag and still end up with the full date...
I'll have to get back on the check with an album that get the problem...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/16 "2025-01-24T13:53:34Z")
> [@Moje1963](#):
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> place to edit the "Year"
The problem is: There are several fields that deal with dates. YEAR is a 4-digit-field for the year only. It would be interesting, which program wrote an invalid date format into this field. YEAR in MP3tag maps to the TYER token in MP3 files
But that may be as it is.
Then there is the field DATE in MP3tag which maps to the TDAT token in MP3 files.
Foobar has the speciality to show a field with the label Date that features the data from TYER plus (if present) the data from TDAT - all in 1 line.
So it would no be up to you to investigate if files have 2 separate fields (YEAR and DATE) in MP3tag which is then shown as just 1 field in Foobar.
So far your screenshots have not yet shown any file(s) in which the displayed times differ and whether the DATE field is present in those files.
If you want to see also the DATE field im MP3tag, customize your tag panel and/or the file list and add an object to show that data.
> **[Customization – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/)**
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> This section provides details on the customization of Mp3tag. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/17 "2025-01-24T14:02:43Z")
Ok, got this now...
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/18 "2025-01-24T14:03:21Z")
sorry
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### Author:  [@Moje1963](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moje1963)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/19 "2025-01-24T14:05:34Z")
So I have to check with Alt-T and edit date/year there to be safe...
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/20 "2025-01-24T14:05:37Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Foobar puts the values of YEAR (TYER) and DATE (TDAT) together into 1 field.
Is [this](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-edit-and-foobar-player-date-column/67262/18) the proof for above statement?
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