Bug 415910 - Support "original year" tag
Summary: Support "original year" tag
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Elisa
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 19.12.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthieu Gallien
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Reported: 2020-01-05 23:38 UTC by Fabio Forni
Modified: 2020-11-11 03:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Fabio Forni 2020-01-05 23:38:58 UTC
SUMMARY
For .flac files, Elisa uses the DATE tag to show the year instead of ORIGINALYEAR. Suppose I have a song from 1980 but the digital file I own was released in 2010: Elisa leads users to think this song is 30 years younger.
I don't know about other formats.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have a .flac file with both DATE and ORIGINALYEAR tags
2. Select the Tracks view, point to the song and click on the "i" icon

OBSERVED RESULT
The year shown is the release year of the medium, not the song.

EXPECTED RESULT
Elisa shows the year of the song (1980, following my previous example)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.65.0
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Comment 1 Matthieu Gallien 2020-03-21 23:46:28 UTC
Hello,

Thanks for your report.

Elisa is using KFileMetaData to read metadata from music files.

Without checking code of the metadata extractor, I did search for a reference to ORIGINALYEAR tag and could not found it.

Picard music tagger can add an originalyear tag but this is not standard.

I also had a look at this page: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping

Do you have any reference that could explain  what is 'ORIGINALYEAR' and how is it used ?
Comment 2 Matthieu Gallien 2020-03-22 21:48:32 UTC
Changing to NEEDSINFO status as recommended
Comment 3 Fabio Forni 2020-03-28 13:17:34 UTC
> Do you have any reference that could explain  what is 'ORIGINALYEAR' and how is it used?

Well no, I have nothing technical. I'm using Picard in fact as my tag manager. The only reference I found is this, since FLAC uses the Vorbis tagging system (source: https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html#general__tagging): https://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html

As far I understand from the reference I linked, there are no "standard" tags, just a minimal list of proposed tags. This then leads to think about how common the ORIGINALYEAR to deserve its parsing code, in my opinion, but I have no data in that regards.
Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2020-04-12 04:33:09 UTC
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Comment 5 Fabio Forni 2020-04-12 09:24:35 UTC
Didn't know I have to change status myself.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-11-11 03:12:23 UTC
Some quick web searching indicates that "original date" is a real thing. It would make sense to support it.