year / date inconsistencies [F3998 RC3]

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by MusicBringer » Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:24 am

:(

Original year

by rusty » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:57 pm

Original year is changed to original date in RC-3.

Probably unlikely that we're going to do anything else here prior to release.

-Rusty

by MusicBringer » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:24 am

...um, I was referring to the contents of the column rather than the column heading :-?

by caddy » Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:42 am

MusicBringer wrote:"...we have a choice on the columns to either select a column date or a column year or both if we so desired."

Yeah, good innit :)
sorry im not with you on that one ?

i can only select dates from columns, i can input dates as years , but i dont have a column heading option of years .

caddy..

by MusicBringer » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:35 pm

"...we have a choice on the columns to either select a column date or a column year or both if we so desired."

Yeah, good innit :)

Re: Year / date inconsistencies

by caddy » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:03 am

rusty wrote:Caddy,

With respect to the inconsistencies that you originally brought up:
Year: Used in Track browser columns & nodes
Date: Used in Track Properties and Column headers

I'm not really certain that we should make a change or not, since the track browser and column nodes would be kind of useless if they were grouped by Date. The only reasonable alternative might be to label the fields as 'date' but only use the year portion of the date.

With respect to Original Year/Original date, we should just make them consistent.

Let me know what you think.

-Rusty
i understand now how the differences have arisen , can we have a choice on the columns to either select a column date or a column year or both if we so desired.

thanks caddy..

by MusicBringer » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:03 pm

Sorry, no - I never thought of trying it out (testing it) ha, ha.

And it works ok now. I was not entering a separator in the date. So 21/11/2007 works. Hooray. Thanks for your help nojac.

by nojac » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:46 pm

MusicBringer wrote:Hello nojac, thanks for the prompt, never thought of that :oops:
You didn't think of trying the format I suggested?? :D

Or this: 10/11/2007? This is changed to 10.11.2007 on my computer. I have no idea if the date format is a MM or a Windows setting, however.....

by MusicBringer » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:25 pm

Hello nojac, thanks for the prompt, never thought of that :oops:

Using the track properties box I changed the Date field to 21 Nov 2007 (also tried 21 11 2007) but nothing was held/saved. The field was showing a blank. I changed it back to the correct date (year). :roll:

Re: year/date

by nojac » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:55 am

MusicBringer wrote:I hope I can display in my English date format: ddmmmyyyy :D
Why not just test it? On my computer the format is dd.mm.yyyy

Re: year/date

by MusicBringer » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:38 am

rusty wrote:But the field actually supports dates!
I didn't know that :oops:

I hope I can display in my English date format: ddmmmyyyy :D

This feature will be very handy esp for concerts where I have the same gig performed on different dates.

Re: year/date

by nojac » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:01 am

As both the Date and the Original Year field actually supports dates, you will have to change the field popup info of Date from "Year this track was recorded" to "Date this track was recorded". The Original Year field should be renamed to Original Date, and the field popup info also from "Year...." to "Date...."

I must admit that I was not aware that these fields actually supports dates. So all my tracks are tagged with Year.

It might be a good idea to let the user choose between displaying a coloumn with the whole Date field or just the last 4 digits ("Year")

by Teknojnky » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:26 pm

Ok, then put date as the field name :)

year/date

by rusty » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:36 pm

But the field actually supports dates! (per the ID3 spec).

-Rusty

by Teknojnky » Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:22 pm

agreed:

year = 2007

date = 11/20/2007

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