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plissk3n

May 26 2008, 02:15

Hi there!
I've got a problem which I couldn't fix and I have no idea what's the source of the problem.

Often when I listen to a song foobar adds a number to my date tag
For example: "The Killers - Somebody told me" the date tag "2005" becomes after listening "1608; 2005"

But sometimes I discover an album which I didn't listen to with foobar yet with the same problem.

So I'm totaly confused

Somebody knows whats wrong?

Greetz plissk3n

Cutter

May 27 2008, 19:26

On Nine Inch Nails' free album "The Slip", the MP3 songs are tagged in such a way that foobar displays the date as "2008, 2008", as if there were two values.

kanak

May 27 2008, 20:40

QUOTE(Cutter @ May 27 2008, 21:26)

On Nine Inch Nails' free album "The Slip", the MP3 songs are tagged in such a way that foobar displays the date as "2008, 2008", as if there were two values.

It was mentioned (in some other thread) that this happens when files are tagged using MediaMonkey. The OP's case is pretty strange though.

musicmusic

May 28 2008, 02:53

It seems almost like something going wrong with the TDAT and TYER ID3v2.3 frames. But I couldn't reproduce it. Maybe you could upload just the ID3v2 tag from the file somewhere (or post the hex view of it from a hex editor)?

QUOTE(http://www.id3.org/d3v2.3.0)

TDAT
The 'Date' frame is a numeric string in the DDMM format containing the date for the recording. This field is always four characters long.

TYER
The 'Year' frame is a numeric string with a year of the recording. This frames is always four characters long (until the year 10000).

Playing the file will reload it's metadata if it changed, if you didn't change it it may be WMP or something.

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