Music albums only have accurate years for their release dates. Plex needs to pull actual Month and day information. We should be able to sort by more accurate date released rather than just year.
Plex generally gets the full date for me. Is it happening on all your albums, or just some? Is your library configured to get info from online sources, or from embedded tags?
Hi folks
Sorry if there’s a more relevant thread to this one, but any help would be great.
With my library view configured ‘All > Albums > By Release Date’, The large majority of dates return “Jan 1, 2018”. Is there a fix for this that I may be overlooking, or is this a bug?
This is true for me too.
Hi all - @ChuckPa, @sa2000, @BigWheel, @OttoKerner, @beckfield
Not sure who to direct this to, but I’ve searched endlessly and have yet to find an answer/ resolve for PMS not pulling accurate release dates for albums re: IDv3 tags when loaded. All dates return 01-01 with only the release year being accurate. This, in affect, makes the ‘sort by release date’ filter next to useless. As far as I can tell from forum posts, It has been an issue since 2015.
For some background, I’m running a Synology 1517+ NAS w/ DSM 6.2 running PMS 3.53.7 with a fairly large music library.
I’ve configured my settings to use embedded tags, I’ve done the ‘dance’, I’ve even gone as far as re-creating my library, but to no avail. I’ve read that PMS does not support all tags, but since the parameters are obviously available via UI, this should be fully supported.
Is there anything I’m missing that can be done on my end? If not, is this in the dev pipeline, or can perhaps be pushed?
Thanks
The following is from the ID3 specification, regarding how timestamps should be formatted in embedded tags. The first step in troubleshooting is to make sure your tags follow the spec:
The timestamp fields are based on a subset of ISO 8601. When being as
precise as possible the format of a time string is
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss (year, “-”, month, “-”, day, “T”, hour (out of
24), “:”, minutes, “:”, seconds), but the precision may be reduced by
removing as many time indicators as wanted. Hence valid timestamps
are
yyyy, yyyy-MM, yyyy-MM-dd, yyyy-MM-ddTHH, yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm and
yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss. All time stamps are UTC.
AFAIK, only the format yyyy-MM-dd has a chance of getting read by Plex.
I know it works with my flac files.
I suppose it’s unlikely that the release date would be more precise than that. Probably nobody even knows the hour of a release. 
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (e.g. available in custom filters)
