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sammydee:
Hi.

I've never done any coding or anything before but I've just spent about an hour studying the tagnavi file and trying to understand the format and flags and what they do.

I want it so that instead of displaying "album" it displays "year - album". I tried adding this option to the tag navi file:

%format "fmt_album"       "%04d - %s" year album

It didn't work. All the albums had some collection of four digits before their name that was certainly not their year, so I tried:

%format "fmt_album"       "%04d - %s" year album ? year >"1900" &

bascule:
It looks very much like your files aren't properly tagged.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ is the tagging app you want...

sammydee:
I know that my files are properly tagged. If I go to the id3 info menu it shows me the year just fine.

Sam

EDIT: I use easytag (for linux). It's quite powerful, can replace/edit tags or extract information from the filename/file tree location using user-defined rules etc.

bascule:
Your formatting code is correct :)


--- Quote ---All the albums had some collection of four digits before their name that was certainly not their year...
--- End quote ---

It sounds like they might be tagged with a date, not just a year. The rockbox Database expects string formats for year to be the ISO-whatever-it-is standard yyyy-mm-dd, so the figures you get back will be the first four digits, regardless. If your files are tagged dd-mm-yyyy or something other than yyyy- at the front, that is probably what you are seeing.

Easytag may either be obfuscating the year string to show just the year, or using one of the other tags in the file that is just the year. It's a bit of a complex subject :(

Some recent info here:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6501

sammydee:
Well I know that within the tags themselves the years are recorded as simple 4 digit numbers like this: yyyy. I'm quite anal about the tags on my music files, I have a system for it :)

How does the "year" option work, if you select it for "album" (or"artist" for that matter)? Is it an average of the dates of all the tracks in a particular album?

Sam

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