[Bug Report] The `Year` tag contains wrong data

[cyxae]

Describe the bug

The year tagged on audio files is wrong, For example when downloading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtEkZIvMAg as audio, the data tagged in the Year field is 20141108 whereas it should be 2014

By the way, the date which is tagged is the publication date on YouTube whereas it should be the release date of the song ! (This latter data is normally provided by YouTube) So the year field should in fact be 1967 !

To Reproduce

Download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtEkZIvMAg as audio

Check the Year tag

Error reports & Screenshots

No response

Device info

1.0.5 (API 32) [arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, armeabi]

Additional context

Thanks for the app ;)

[JunkFood02]

I tested this link and also get 20150321 for the Date field instead of the date in the description. I believe that this is the only information we can get from YouTube's side. Also, yt-dlp only provides the Date field for metadata.

Seal is a GUI for yt-dlp, so the behavior of embedding metadata is not in our control.

[cyxae]

Hi,

I finally managed to read part of yt-dlp documentation (!), and found that the "date" tag is automatically filled with "upload_date" whereas a "release_year" tag exists for most Youtube Music links.

So the solution is to add an option « --parse-metadata "release_year:%(meta_date)s" » to the download command.

It could be like this line, and be

if (releaseYearAsDate) {
    addOption("--parse-metadata", "release_year:%(meta_date)s")
}

with releaseYearAsDate being associated to a slider in the settings, so we could choose if we want to replace the default behavior of yt-dlp.

I’ve not set up my development environment for Android, so if you think it is not so complicated and you have time I would really appreciate that you implement it :) However if you don’t want to, tell me and I’ll create a pull request !

Thank you very much,

cyxae

[cyxae]

Hello !

I’m sorry to raise the issue again, but I found that in the yt-dlp known issues, there is the same case as that one, and the recommended command as provided in https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766 (External issues -> Wrong year in metadata in M4A, MP4, FLAC format) is :

--parse-metadata "%(release_year,upload_date).4s:(?P<meta_date>.+)"

(to be replaced at that line https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/blob/d67278daba23d101f8e2b32d7db795167997319f/app/src/main/java/com/junkfood/seal/util/DownloadUtil.kt#L346)

So when the release_year is not available, the upload_date is cropped to have only the year in the date tag.

Thank you very much for your work again, this is a great piece of software !