Q: Apple Music Bug? All of my media (music & movies) have wrong release year
The last few days (maybe more) I've noticed that all of my music and movies as well are labeled as having released the year "εεεε" which is a greek letter and obviously so very wrong. I was using Apple Music until 2 days ago when my free subscription ended (if this has anything to do with it). The same problem exists both in iTunes and on my iPad (iOS 9). My purchased media is also affected.
What happened and how can I fix it?
iPad Mini, Windows 8, null
Posted on Oct 2, 2015 10:55 AM
There are similar problems with the current versions of iTunes in Polish ('rrrrr' instead year of all songs) and Portuguese (Re: Album year bug after iTunes 12.3 update). The patch is slightly more complicated for Greek. First one has to discover that the folder for Greek localization is el.lproj rather than the expected gr.lproj. Then it turns out that a 'Normal' search for εεεε doesn't work in either the binary plist or xml state of the file. A little experimenting has found that a 'Regular expression' search works in the xml version of the file, but that still means you'd have to convert it, edit it, and convert it back again. I can explain how to do that if you are really interested, but in the meantime I've created a patched version of the Greek Localizable.strings for iTunes 12.3.0.44 as a zip file. Unpack it into the el.lproj folder and it should fix the problem.
Edited to correct the link to the patch file. If you downloaded from the original email you'll have the Portuguese version. Sorry.
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Posted on Oct 3, 2015 12:08 PM


