GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689437
Allow extended date field for FLAC/Ogg/MP4/ID3v2
Last modified: 2021-05-26 09:51:31 UTC
Sound Juicer sets the release date to be the ISO formatted date YYYY-MM-DD, which is currently unsupported by EasyTAG: The year value '2010-09-14' seems to be invalid in the file '/xxx'. The information will be lost while saving the tag. The field should be left intact. Also reported at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3070904&group_id=5216&atid=105216
*** Bug 740225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 744882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 776926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
When working on ID3 tags version 2.4, note that ID3 lib (libid3) is not supporting these yet. EasyTAG uses this lib (partly). When working on ID3 tags in combination with this shared library, please see also: * https://sourceforge.net/p/id3lib/feature-requests/23/ * https://sourceforge.net/p/id3lib/bugs/172/ * https://sourceforge.net/p/id3lib/bugs/188/ * https://sourceforge.net/p/id3lib/bugs/203/
Is this still an issue (with regard to that bugzilla is replaced with github)?
Yes, this is still an issue for EasyTAG version 2.4.3. Dates of the form YYYY-MM-DD are shown in the Year field but cause EasyTAG to not save the file properly and EasyTAG will vaguely signal an error when one selects a file containing a date in this format. To make EasyTAG save the file normally, change the value to only a year (YYYY) and then re-save. I say that the way the error is stated to the user is vague because EasyTAG beeps (or flashes the color of the main window) and it's not clear why the app behaves that way unless one has bumped into this issue before and knows what to do to stop EasyTAG from doing this.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new enhancement request ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/easytag/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.