Vista WMP changes song year tag to 1899 guiCookie 12/30/2008 5:23:01 AM I have Vista Home Premium WMP 11. When I play a song that has the correct year stored in the metadata, the year usually changes to 1899. To reproduce this: 1) Play a song. It does not have to finish. 2) Close WMP. I can stop playing the song first, but I don't have to. 3) Reopen WMP. Use the "Add to Library..." feature to scan for new/updated tracks. 4) After (or possibly during) scanning, the year on the played song(s) changes to 1899. Since the displayed album year seems to use the date of the first track, I used Foobar to verify that the year changed for later tracks. The changing year occurs on most, but not all, of my songs. I think it only changes on songs with album art embedded in the tag. I tried a few albums with and without embedded art to test and verify that. Is there a hotfix or workaround (besides not embedding album art)?

RE: Vista WMP changes song year tag to 1899 Vincent 12/30/2008 11:49:02 AM I have noticed this behaviour in case of - year below 1900 - year tag contaning non numeric values http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/WMP/Year.htm 1899 is new to me. What version of WMP are you using? "guiCookie" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have Vista Home Premium WMP 11. When I play a song that has the correct > year stored in the metadata, the year usually changes to 1899. To reproduce > this: 1) Play a song. It does not have to finish. 2) Close WMP. I can stop > playing the song first, but I don't have to. 3) Reopen WMP. Use the "Add to > Library..." feature to scan for new/updated tracks. 4) After (or possibly > during) scanning, the year on the played song(s) changes to 1899. > > Since the displayed album year seems to use the date of the first track, I > used Foobar to verify that the year changed for later tracks. The changing > year occurs on most, but not all, of my songs. I think it only changes on > songs with album art embedded in the tag. I tried a few albums with and > without embedded art to test and verify that. Is there a hotfix or workaround > (besides not embedding album art)?

RE: Vista WMP changes song year tag to 1899 guiCookie 12/30/2008 4:35:02 PM The version is 11.0.6001.7000 This occurs even on files that had the year tag entered by the "find album" feature, so there aren't any non numeric values. When I searched on Google and Live Search, I only saw one or two people on forums who had this same issue, and neither had found a solution. "Vincent" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have noticed this behaviour in case of > - year below 1900 > - year tag contaning non numeric values > > http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/WMP/Year.htm > 1899 is new to me. > What version of WMP are you using?