Bug In PlexAmp 3..22 - All Album Release Dates show as Today?

[Sonicmojo]

Just noticed that when I looked into my Queen albums (for example) in Album view and scroll down to the bottom of the track list (just before the Album Review header) - for each album - regardless of when it was released - it says Oct 28, 1982 or Oct 28, 1977 or Oct 28, 1973.

Clearly taking today’s date and then tagging the release year onto it?

I do find the release dates to be valuable but they need to be accurate as well.

Hoping for an investigation or fix.

Cheers

Sonic

[OttoKerner]

Please compare with the date shown in the web app, when editing this album.
If it is identical there, it has nothing to do with Plexamp, but is a general server issue.

[Sonicmojo]

Otto

The Web app does not display this date in the way. It does display a year but no date. See the attachments for the different display views.

[OttoKerner]

I wrote “edit the album”.

[Sonicmojo]

Otto

Sorry about that. Yes - when I “edit” any album - like the Queen album above or any other - right on the Plex Server - they all show Oct 28. Clearly a server issue of some sort.

[sekthree]

were you updating these yesterday? i’m showing proper dates. what do they show today?

[Sonicmojo]

Everything still shows Oct 28 today. Every album in a group of 28 shows Oct 28.

For clarity - I am really just getting started with Plex and have not ever actually “edited” anything. The only music that Plex sees right now is one “test” folder on my NAS (The Q subfolder of my main Music stash) so all I see are the 28 albums from bands that start with Q.

This Music library has been static since I started testing Plex in July 2020 - and then I added PlexAmp to the mix a few weeks later. This is the first time I have actually looked deep into PlexAmp. This date thing may have been wrong for a long time - but I am a stickler for album release dates and I knew something was really off as of yesterday.

I did see Plex do a “refresh” of these 28 albums (On the server) a day or two ago when I was trying to add another network location to test some other FLAC files - but it seems I cannot add a location using “\SERVER\Folder\Subfolder”…so I gave up - and I did see Plex do a quick rescan of my current 28 Q albums again. Maybe something happened during the scan?

Anyway - all 28 albums look like they were released in various years but all on Oct 28

Cheers

Sonic.

[sekthree]

sooo have you properly tagged everything? try this and see what happens

[HowTo] Music Organizing with MusicBrainz Picard

An IMHO very useful addition was posted by @leelynds in here: Plex sorting artist by LASTNAME By default, Picard fetches the TitleSort attribute and writes it into your files. However, if these tags are present in the files, Plex will use them eventually. But there are many people who don’t like to have their artists sorted by Lastname, Firstname. Picard can be modified to not put the “Sorting” tags into the files by doing this: In Picard, go to Options - Options - Scripting Add new script …

[solitaryreign]

This seems to be fixed in the new beta

(Library) When tags only have release year, don’t use current m/d, use 1/1.

Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.20.4.3508-6abbd541f is now available in the beta update channel NEW: (DVR) New Library option added to include all files during commercial detection (#12024). (Web) Updated to 4.43.4 Update translations. FIXES: (Analysis) Media analysis wouldn’t trigger correctly in Plex Movie libraries when modifications were detected (#12041) (DVR) Server would sometimes crash when scheduling shows to record (#12062). (Dashboard) Metadata for Live TV sessions would not update when air…

edit: I think it should use 1986-00-00 instead of 1986-01-01 though.

[Sonicmojo]

All files are FLAC and all 80,000 of them are extensively tagged using J.River Media Center - however Plex seems to ignore pretty much all of the tags (which is very unfortunate).

There will be no huge changes to my tagging routine for the short term as J.River is my current standard. I took a short tour through the Tag options in Plex for music and it is nowhere near what I current have. I have to decide the direction on this eventually but for now - I am just focused on that release date item.

Are you saying that if I had manually set a release date in the tag - I would be good. I thought the whole point of the metadata “refresh” was to get this sort of stuff and place in the tags for me?

Perhaps I am missing the point of the metadata refresh?

Sonic.

[sekthree]

@Sonicmojo

Are you saying that if I had manually set a release date in the tag - I would be good. I thought the whole point of the metadata “refresh” was to get this sort of stuff and place in the tags for me?

i believe so, yes. but looking at @solitaryreign’s comment, i didn’t realize there was an issue with release years… so this might be your issue.
refresh does fill in the gaps for the most part, however it might be the case where it grabs a different release than what you have… it looks at several providers, one being musicbrainz…
looking at hot space
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/3918b90b-340e-3779-9d7e-ba1593653498
there are a few with ONLY a year date… it might be picking up those releases, strange that it’s for all Q artists though, and Plex tried to fill in the gap … queue the bug mentioned above.
also Plex does NOT save any data to the files, only to it’s own Database.

while i trust music brainz, I also like tagging my own stuff and trust that more. Hot space is a perfect example. If something doesn’t match (catalog, barcode or whatever plex uses to match), it’ll do it’s best guess…
i’ve had issues where it picks up releases, but i WANT it to pick up the original so my metadata is correct TO ME.

hope this makes sense…

[elan]

@solitaryreign

I think it should use 1986-00-00 instead of 1986-01-01 though.

i don’t disagree, “unfortunately” we store as a date field in the DB, and that’s not a valid date