So this is kind of a long story, and I’m not sure exactly which version this started with for me but its in the last week.
So, I use PMS to store a Audiobook library, and I do that as a Music library and its one that I manually adjust/input alot of the nromal metadata. now one of those fields is ‘Originally Available’. PMS of course grabs the year from the file metadata but then i normally have to edit in the month and day as its always set to jan 1st of the year.
In the last I noticed a couple of books I added all displayed Jan 1st, 1970. Anyway I thought that was weird and just edited the album field in PMS and changed it to the right date and year. And then noticed after saving it still displayed the albums release date as Jan 1st 1970. So I thought for some reason PMS is no longer saving taht data in the database or just displaying some default value.
Of course all the rest of the library is still displaying the correct dates, so its not like Plex is just displaying a default value and not reading the data from the database.
The weirder thing is though, if I try and sort this library and sort by ‘release date’ these newly added albums that are mistakenly showing themselves as released on Jan 1 1970 are still appearing at the top of the list. So its like its stored the correct dates in the database, but its simply not being being displayed to me anywhere even in the edit window.
Here is for instance the top row currently of when I sort albums in this library by release date.
I’m seeing this as well (same PMS version), though they display as December 31, 1969 for me. It looks like something changed with how Plex stores the ‘Originally Available’ date in the database, and it’s confusing other parts of Plex. Previously, Plex stored it as Unix timestamp (an offset of January 1, 1970 UTC), but is now storing it as a “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS” string. Apparently not all places accounted for this change though, and when it doesn’t find a Unix timestamp it falls back to a value of 0. Since my time zone is behind UTC, that timestamp of 0 is December 31, 1969 locally.
I am also having this problem with a custom TV Show on an NVIDIA Shield server. Something has changed in the scanners/agents and it is no longer allowing you to manually edit the date. If you do, the timestamp changes to that 1969 date, and you cannot change it back.
But my problem also relates to having a show that is dependent on the date being correct or it will not sort properly in my folder. Here is my thread.
I noticed that also yesterday. In addition, many albums in music library have only the year in reference, no month, and no day (ex: 1967-01-01). Therefore, I began to notice many albums have minus 1 year from original date release. The date is now 1966-12-31. All those Rolling Stones’ albums are a year short.
I have started to notice this as well which is frustrating when you are trying to edit something that doesn’t match with the agent. Do we know if a dev has seen this?