hola gang -
i'm afraid there's something i've never understood about the way MC tags and displays dates. say i import some files i download from itunes or whatever, and the date is 1995. in MC, 1995 will display in the "year" tag, which seems fine and all. if i then conclude the original tag was wrong, and i change that to 1996, say, i will see 1996 in the "year" tag. however, in the view schemes, i can't choose "year" as a field to sort by, so i choose "date". now then, instead of seeing 1996 in that field, i'll see "1/1/1996 12:00AM". if i choose "date (year)" as my tag field for display/sort, however, it's blank.
so, i have a few questions:
- is MC not writing the year to the standard ID3 "year" tag?
- why does there seem to be a discrepancy between which tag i can choose for view? i.e. "year" vs "date" vs "date (year)"?
- does the "year" tag not really exist, and is MC merely reading the year from the "date" tag?
- is there any way to suppress displaying the day and month, especially in theatre view schemes and track info plugins?
- ...or, is there any way to delete all of the day and month info?
- ...or or, is there any way to force MC to not write day and month info?
erm, i have other questions, but maybe they'll get answered along the way.
running newest build of MC12, fyi. thanks in advance...
micah