I'm using FLAC exclusively. All rips done outside of MC.
I just noticed a bunch of my albums have lost their YEAR data and upon checking notice the field is no longer present in the FORMAT data for the file. I searched the forums and noted the confusion of dates with FLAC and some attempts to rectify.
I just took an example album and did the recommended Update Library (from tags) for an album with no year set and MC set the year to 1899. Not very helpful. And clearly updating my entire library from tags is not an option until this is resolved.
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
44.1 kHz Sample Rate
16 Bits Per Sample
2 Channels
Min Block Size = 4608
Max Block Size = 4608
Min Frame Size = 17
Max Frame Size = 10811
Padding Block = 3491 bytes
SeekTable Block (162 bytes):
# of points = 9
Vorbis Comment Block (783 bytes):
Vendor String = reference libFLAC 1.1.2 20050205
date = 1899/12/30
And because of the changes to processing YEAR could we get some official clarification as to how we are supposed to handle the YEAR field with FLACs as I'm totally confused. I can knock up a WIKI FAQ entry afterwards.
One thing I absolutely want to do is store the YEAR field, or it's equivalent, in the FLAC tags to protect the data from database corruptions, but also make it available to other software. This no longer seems possible?
Cheers,
Mark