SongKong 6.8.2 - Only use Year, not YEAR-MONTH-DAY

[GreenLantern81]

Hi!

Im using an older SongKong 6.8.2 and im trying to create folders that only contains the year and nothing more. What am i doing wrong?
This is my filename mask:

ifnotempty2(albumartist.substring(0,1),artist.substring(0,1),'/')
+ ifnotempty2(albumartistsort,artist,'')
+ '/'
+ ifnotempty2(albumartistsort,artist,' - ')
+ ifnotempty(pad(mbreleasetype,2),' - ')
+ (year.length>0  ? '' + year + '- ' : '')
+ ifnotempty(pad(album,2),' - ')
+ ifnotempty(pad(discsubtitle,2),' ')
+ ifnotempty2(bracketValue(substring(catalogno)),'(Unknown Catalognr)',' ')
+ ifnotempty2(bracketValue(substring(recordlabel)),'(Unknown Recordlabel)',' ')
+ '(' + audioformat + ')'
+ '/'
+ ifnotempty(pad(discno,2),'-')
+ ifnotempty(pad(trackno,2),' - ')
+ ifnotempty(pad(artist,2),' - ')
+ title

 function bracketValue(value1){
     return value1.length > 0 ? '(' + value1 + ')' :'' ;
 } 

This gives me:
K\Klingande\Klingande - album - 2019-11-14- The Album - (Unknown Catalognr) (Ultra Records) (Flac)

[paultaylor]

When you refer to the year in your mask, that refers to the year metadata field , but by default this can contain complete date. To force the metadata to only store the date enable Use Year instead of full dates for Dates fields on the Format tab

Then when rename based on metadata it will just pick up year value.

[GreenLantern81]

I saw your picture in another post but i cant find that option!?

EDIT: Found your post. But its n older version of SongKong!?
ttps://community.jthink.net/t/improvements-to-date-fields-with-songkong-6-12/9684

[paultaylor]

Okay no it seems it isn’t available in 6.8.2, not until 6.12

So your best bet is just to purchase 1 year of version updates and then you can immediately upgrade to latest version SongKong 8.4.1 and you will also be eligible at no additional cost for any other new versions released in the next year.

[GreenLantern81]

Ok. Thanks for a very quick reply.