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marko:
As no date field can contain, for example, 2003/2004, it's a little difficult to follow what you want to achieve.

Could you post an example date, along with what you want to show in your new field?

Dr.Ames:
Hello,

since I work with German language system and also settings hopefully I catch the precise designations. It's about many albums of classical music, where works were recorded over several years. So when tagging with "mp3tag" I filled the "Year" field with information like 2003/2004 or 2001-03. some of course with default information like 2015. And only the latter JRiver shows in the "Date" column.

Now I understand the discussion here that I need to read and output the date/year field custom as a non-date field - but I am unable to implement this, unfortunately.

 

Richard Martin:
I can't add anything other than a 4 digit year to the year tag, if I try to it blanks it out.
However, there is tag call 'Period' amongst the Classical tags, if you are not using that for anything else maybe you could use that.
If you select all the items you want to update then edit the Period tag for them and type =[year] in the tag it will set 'Period' to what ever is in the 'Year' tag

EnglishTiger:
In MC the [Day], [Month] and [Year] Tags/Fields are all Sub-Sets of the [Date] Tag/Field and the [Date] field/tag will only ever accept a Legitimate Calendar Date. In addition if you change any one of those 4 fields that change will automatically be reflected in the other 3.

If the tag/field you have been putting things like 2001-2003 or 2021/2022 in is not called "Date" then you can add that tag/field to the ones MC Knows/Uses by using Tools >> Options >> Library & Folders >> ... Manage Library Fields >>  Add New Field Option.

If it does have the name "Date" then there is no way it's content can be imported into, or used by, MC so you will have to use the above option to add in a New Field that has a suitable name, i.e. Date (Performance or Orig Recorded) with it's Edit Type set to String, and manually input the relevant information/values using the MC Tag Editior and not MP3Tag.

There is a reason why I used naming the tag/field - "Date (Performance or Orig Recorded)" above as that is one of the tag/field names the ET Track-Info Plugins recogises/uses ( https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,134776.0.html ), which also happen to be the onlyTrack-Info Plugins designed for use with Classicsl Music.

Dr.Ames:
Thanks for the Answer, so the only way I can solve the problem is by completely re-tagging - I was hoping to just read the field and output it in a non-date format in JRiver.

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