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release date in tags #502

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What's the problem? How can I reproduce it?

beets produces date in tags in the form yyyy-mm-dd. Could we have more 
appropriate yyyy.mm.dd? Or an option to specify delimiters?

If it seems relevant, what system are you running on (OS, Python version,
etc.)?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by me.detected on 18 Jan 2013 at 12:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
That's for filing. You're correct that, in ID3 tags, beets records the TDRC 
field as YYYY-MM-DD. (This is also true of the "©day" field in MPEG-4 and the 
"DATE" field in Vorbis Comments, etc.) This specified by the ID3v2.4 standard:
http://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure
(Look for "timestamp fields" in that document.) Using a different 
(non-standard) date format would confuse other tools.

Original comment by adrian.sampson on 18 Jan 2013 at 10:00