iTunes removing last digit from "Year" field
This is bizarre and disturbing.
iTunes is occasionally, randomly, and by itself, deleting the last character from the "year" field in my library (and I confirmed it is also happening to the database - I exported the XML and see it there too).
For example, 1972 becomes 197, and 1959 becomes 195.
This is affected about 100-150 songs with no apparent pattern. I am able to replicate it. It appears to happen (when it does) when a song starts to play, whether I initiate the play or iTunes does.
When I use the right or left arrows to jump through songs, it picks one out of every few songs -- sometimes more, sometimes less, sometimes several in a row, sometimes none for several songs -- and just BAM deletes that last character.
I turned on the "date modified" column to see if it actually was updating that, too, and sure enough, yes it is; when the year gets ghost-truncated, the 'modified' field gets updated to reflect the current time/date.
I looked through my library and this has apparently been happening on and off for months.
Anyone see this or have any clues?
Thank you Apple people!
iTunes is occasionally, randomly, and by itself, deleting the last character from the "year" field in my library (and I confirmed it is also happening to the database - I exported the XML and see it there too).
For example, 1972 becomes 197, and 1959 becomes 195.
This is affected about 100-150 songs with no apparent pattern. I am able to replicate it. It appears to happen (when it does) when a song starts to play, whether I initiate the play or iTunes does.
When I use the right or left arrows to jump through songs, it picks one out of every few songs -- sometimes more, sometimes less, sometimes several in a row, sometimes none for several songs -- and just BAM deletes that last character.
I turned on the "date modified" column to see if it actually was updating that, too, and sure enough, yes it is; when the year gets ghost-truncated, the 'modified' field gets updated to reflect the current time/date.
I looked through my library and this has apparently been happening on and off for months.
Anyone see this or have any clues?
Thank you Apple people!
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33, Mac OS X (10.5.7), iTunes 8.2
