But when I use the Standard View item for "Date (day)" or the others the tree only shows "Unassigned" at that level.
Then there's a whole bunch that are showing up as "Unassigned" as if they had no date at all?
The "Date (Year)", Date (Month)" & "Date (Day)" are calculated fields from the "Date" field
And what is a "filename friendly" date? That only ends up showing '20040101-000000' and '20050101-000000'
'20040101-000000' = [yyyy][mm][dd]-[time]
yyyy=year
mm=month
dd=day
So I'm assuming either the functions here are broken or the values they're using haven't been set. I'm guessing the latter?
yep
If so, how does one correlate the actual timestamp on the file itself into the database?
Select ur songs...right click and select LIBRARY TOOLS > MOVE / COPY FIELDS...
For source select "Date Created"
For destination select "Date"
For action select "Copy (Leave Source)"
Press ok
This should make the view scheme u created work