I say "and/or" because I barely know what I'm talking about. What I do know is I can't use Original Year in Strawberry because that value for FLAC files seems to simply mirror whatever Year is set to.

For Apple AAC files (ID3v2), on the other hand, Strawberry's Original Year works great. But not so much for FLAC's vorbis metadata.

I realize the standards for using ORIGINALDATE, ORIGINAL_YEAR, and/or ORIGYEAR are a little loosey-goosey, so I'm not sure what all the ramifications might be to implement this.

Just looking at one of my FLAC files and its metadata, tagged by SongKong (pulling from MusicBrainz), I see the following pertaining to dates:

<ORIGINAL_YEAR>1976</ORIGINAL_YEAR>
<ALBUM_YEAR>1997</ALBUM_YEAR>
<ORIGINALRELEASEDATE>1997</ORIGINALRELEASEDATE>
<Recorded_Date>1997</Recorded_Date>

I say "and/or" because I barely know what I'm talking about. What I do know is I can't use Original Year in Strawberry because that value for FLAC files seems to simply mirror whatever Year is set to.

For Apple AAC files (ID3v2), on the other hand, Strawberry's Original Year works great. But not so much for FLAC's vorbis metadata.

I realize the standards for using ORIGINALDATE, ORIGINAL_YEAR, and/or ORIGYEAR are a little loosey-goosey, so I'm not sure what all the ramifications might be to implement this.

@jonas said in Error when updating file tag:

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I'm not sure this will work with gvfs. Try mounting the SMB share in fstab.

I can confirm this is the solution.

Here's a good video for any linux users needing help setting up fstab shares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ni5fq4ozoM