Is it possible to customize <Episode Date< for Podcasts?

[jan_axhell]

I tend to download and keep podcasts, but most of them has no progressive ID to sort the files, so I have added <Episode Date> before <Title> in the Reorganize options. But the date is set as DD-MM-YY, so that downloaded files are organized by Day instead of Year.
Any chance to have a YY-MM-DD option?

[phred]

I may be mistaken, but I think MB uses whatever date/time format you have set in Windows.

[frankz]

That's right - short date and short time under regional settings.

[jan_axhell]

phred:
Uhm, in the W10 Date/Hour settings I see no option to reverse Day/Year order, just change a little aesthetic look like short/long.
BTW if that's the only way to do this, it would be annoying for me to have the system clock showing date in reverse..

frankz:
short or long is of no use, I need reverse, like 2020-07-16 instead of 16-07-2020. I see no such option.

[frankz]

frankz:
short or long is of no use, I need reverse, like 2020-07-16 instead of 16-07-2020. I see no such option.

Where are you looking? It's in your windows regional settings as I described.

[jan_axhell]

I don't seem to have that option... :-o
That's weird!

[frankz]

Very odd. 

I think there's a workaround where you can make a virtual tag that displays the date in any format you want.  I'm not familiar with how it works besides knowing it exists, and I'm not sure it would sort the way you want, but if you search the forum for $DATE you should be able to find something.

[hiccup]

I don't seem to have that option... :-o
That's weird!

You can probably set it by using Windows' Control Panel > Region instead of using 'Settings'.
There you should be able to edit it and set it exactly as you like:

[frankz]

I didn't know that - good info.

[jan_axhell]

Yes! Thanks hiccup, that worked.
Thank you all for the advice.
Now I wonder if I have to re-download all the podcasts: MB doesn't do anything when I click Reorganize..
Oh well, I'll do that.

[jan_axhell]

I have Deleted and Downloaded again the podcasts
Now THIS is odd:
some podcasts are tagged in the form of YYYY/MM/DD
others are tagged as DD/MM/YYYY
for no apparent reason.
This happens even for podcasts of the same subscription, some tagged one way, others the other way.

Now I am confused.



EDIT
Changing the short date in Windows 10 totally messed up MusicBee podcasts dates: now it's impossible to sort them by title and some episodes have impossible dates like 2020-12-03 (and we are now in july)

Looks like a bug, don't know if in Windows or MusicBee, but this doesn't work fine for sure.