[Feedback] issue with 'year' from mp3's

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Sunday 03 August 2008, HPeterKF at gmx.de wrote:
> Peter sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hi,
>
> I tagged my mp3's with different software and when I used Amarok to play
> them I found a strange behaviour. The year of a few titles inside an album
> were totally wrong.
> These particular mp3's were tagged with an ID3 Tag 'DATE' – why? – I’ve
> no idea.
> It looks like Amarok is using this tag as year. So a date of 26th June was
> translated into the year 2606 and the also available ‘YEAR’ tag of 2007
> was totally ignored.
> I’ve no idea if this is an Amarok issue?
>
> Peter

It's hard to say without knowing many other variables...what version of TagLib 
are you using? What version of Amarok?  Also, try using eyeD3 with the -1 
and -2 options in separate runs, and let me know what the output is.

Thanks,
Jeff