Musicbee $Date(<Year>,yyyy)

[bkev]

I've got the following custom tag of $Date(<Year>,yyyy)

This works for the most part, but for dates that are in the format dd/mm/yyyy it doesn't work.

Is this because MB expects the date to be in mm/dd/yyyy? If it is, is there anyway around it?

Example:
Year Tag                            Result
1965                                   1965
05/10/1970                       1970
2022-04-09                        2022
28/09/2004                       (Blank)
13/06/2008                       (Blank)

[boroda]

i think it's depends on your windows regional settings, only  dd/mm/yyyy,  but not  mm/dd/yyyy  is working for me (russian locale).

but i'd prefer if mb could correctly parse  mm/dd/yyyy,  dd.mm.yyyy  and  yyyy-mm-dd  depending on date part's delimiter and independently of windows regional settings.

the same for:  mm/dd/yy,  dd.mm.yy  and  yy-mm-dd

[bkev]

Thanks @boroda

I think I can fix the issue by retagging using Picard so it changes the date field to be yyyymmdd. This then fixes the view and sorting in Musicbee.