mAirlistDB n m4a tags

[UliNobbe]

@Stefan_Hillen

…“date“ is no official tag, btw.

This may be true for ALAC. However, in a comparable lossless codec such as FLAC, there is a ‘date’ field which is imported exactly as it is into mAirList, unless a configuration setting converts it into a year.

Torben set this up in July 2010 (!), in version 3.1 build 762 (!!). It has worked flawlessly ever since, across many mAirList generations.

This option is not set in a new, ‘fresh’ standard configuration.

You can read the discussion in the german section of the forum from #16 ff on:

FLAC und Tags

Ich habe mich genau an die Vorbis-Comments-Spezifikation (siehe Link oben) gehalten. Dort gibt es kein Feld “Year” sondern nur ein Feld “Date”. Es ist offenbar vorgesehen, dort nicht nur das Jahr einzutragen sondern ggf. das genaue Datum. DATE Date the track was recorded Bei ID3v2 gibt es zwei getrennte Felder “TYER” (Year) und “TDAT” (Date). Gängige Tagger nutzen offenbar nur das Year-Feld. Was nun?

I don’t want to offend Stefan, but his quoted statement cannot be accepted as true for all codecs. It may be true for ALAC, but I am not familiar with its specifications.