I have a Plex Premium Music library and when I sort the albums by release date, I can see that the release dates in Plex are all wrong. There are a bunch of albums that have January 1, 2015 as the release date and no albums newer than that. I tried enabled the agent to scan and use embedded metadata in the files. The dates in the embedded metdata are correct (I’ve used MusicBrainz Picard to tag my collection properly), but Plex seems to ignore the date altogether.
Any advice?
I have the same problem. Release dates work for flac and mp4 music files but for mp3 the dates always say January 1st even though I have tagged them correctly (using ID3 tags in MusicBrainz Picard). Pretty annoying that Plex won’t read the tags correctly!
This appears to still be an issue. I just added a FLAC album to Plex with 2016-05-06 set as the date, but Plex shows the release date as January 1, 2016. Anyone else have this problem? Plex is almost a great music client but this bug is a big one for me.
I also have this problem and it’s an issue for syncing recently released albums to my phone.
I have the same problem. Year is right, but most dates are Jan 1. Need to use actual full release date.
any update on this getting a fix?
I’ve been seeing the same issue for quite some time. Haven’t seen any response from devs.
Large majority of dates return Jan 1 with the Year the only data that changes. Not really any point to having this sorting as an option if it’s not functional. Disappointing.
This is also an issue on Linux PMS, and has been for me for some time (all FLAC, Premium library). Many album dates have the correct year, but almost all have 01-01 for the month/day. @elan is this an issue with the metadata source, or is Plex not parsing dates?
I have the same problem. Is this a codec problem? (real date: 2018 → pms date: 1900-01-01)
with lame mp3s, i have no problems…
System: Windows PMS
found the problem: corrupted files…
I found an INTERESTING issue. I had a bunch of music compilations dating from 1960-2008. When I checked all my date labels in MP3TAG and all the year tags were correct up to 1970… then they suddenly changed to 2007 or 2008. I know that computers have an issue with 1-1-1970 due to old method of calculating dates. If I remember correctly 1-1-1970 was treated as day 0, month 0 and year 0… so when a date tag goes bad on 1-1-1970 I assume it’s a computer glitch. If I had to guess, I would say the program that was tagging them used the correct date, until it reached 1970, then it mistakenly used the current date (as of the tagging). I retagged them with current MP3 and now they show up correctly in plex. I would call this (mine at least) a bug in whatever was used to tag these files. I believe I ripped them from a bunch of CD’s so maybe it was an old version of EAC in my case. BUT it may be a bunch of corrupted (wrong information) in the database that was accessed to pull the MP3 tags by EAC. Just wanted people to double check all of the dates and not (as In my case) the first dates (pre 1970) are correct.
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