Year vs. Release date...

[iMikla]

Anyone run across an issue with the year field getting filled in with the release date? I want to name the folders with the release year in the folder name e.g.:

ZZ Top (1992) - Greatest Hits

But in many cases would end up with the full date if I tried that because a lot of stuff comes in with an actual date (to make matters worse, what’s the format? Euro/US/ISO? kimsometimesi, kimsometimesa; all of the above). Is there any way to make this consistent so I always can access a year but don’t throw out the release date if it occurs in the info? Or should I just wack it and make them all the release year like most discog sites have posted (kinda hate throwing away info, but…)?

Michael

[paultaylor]

You are using the %year% field right, that should only take the year portion when running Rename Files from Tags, what audio format are your songs in ?

[iMikla]

Oh, I didn’t try it because I assumed it would take the whole year field. My bad, I’ll give it a try. (flac files btw; by the time I convert them to mp3s everything is already nicely named and tagged from the flac sources).