How can I make the Year/Date tag be displayed completely in media players?

I'm using Mp3Tag to tag some of my music files, and I like to use the YYYY.MM.dd format. I prefer that instead of just the year.

However, I found that both in VLC Media Player and in Groove Music, only the YYYY field is displayed.

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What can be done so the whole date is displayed?

1 Answer

I took a while to put the answer here but, basically, it has to do with the different tagging systems for the different audio files - mp3 and flac, one uses ID3 and the other Vorbis Comments.

For flac, it seems you can input pretty much whatever and it'll be fine - even letters - and they'll show up in most programs (at least on all I've tried).

Since you can input full-date values like YYYY.MM.DD in mp3 files with mp3tag, it's not like ID3 doesn't support them to some degree, but they won't show up in most programs, and the ones that do display it, don't do so past YYYY.

I don't actually know the workings behind the problem, but this is a lead, at the very least. I won't investigate further as it is beyond my capabilities.