If you're doing all your tagging within iTunes, try retagging the year info for those tracks using SSL and see if it sticks.

Same here. It's a known issue: serato.com

Justin James, are you using MP3 files or MP4 video files?

Only m4a files are affected for me as I posted here.
serato.com

hey.. using mp3s and higher.. even tracks bought from itunes keep losing the year tags.. i then edit them in ssl but they still go.. for now i,m having to put the year tag next to the name of the track.. :/

hmmm

is there a fix coming for this glitch..??

:/

Are you retagging the year info in both iTunes and SSL?

iTunes <> SSL tag info writing/reading issues have been around since the beginning. The best workaround is to simply not import your music into SSL VIA iTunes, which is why we created this article > serato.com < Migrating your iTunes library and playlists to a Scratch Live library and crates.

yes tagging in both.. i,ll have to look into the above article as i need the yearly references..

When you have time, please attach one of those missing year tag tracks to this thread and I'll test it here :)

i recently purchased the above from iTunes..(not saving year tag).. i,m in the process of creating (brown) crates.. i presume this is the better way to do things..

what are your suggested settings in library??

The Serato MPEG-4 tagger is broken, you can test it with any .m4a/.m4p file. This has nothing to do with iTunes!

Keeping your Serato and your iTunes library in sync is another story. You need to know how it works to do it correctly. It became much more difficult since Apple changed the behavior of "Get Info" when multiple files have been selected. Now you need scripts to update your iTunes library from the tags of your files after you have edited them outside of iTunes. In Serato products you can use the "Resan Tags" functionality to update your database/library. General rule: The tags in your files are always the master and the libraries/databases need to be updated from time to time.

Please note that iTunes manages two databases: The .itl file is the actual operational database while the .xml file is just a read-only snapshot of this database. Serato and any other software with iTunes integration is reading the .xml file. This is the reason why you are not able to modify your iTunes library from within ScratchLIVE or ITCH.

i,ve moved stuff in to brown crates and made a few smart crates up.. hopefully this works..

yes.. I've now noticed it is M4p and M4a files that are not saving.. c'mon serato!!

heres another file for you guys.. year tag NOT saving..

What version of iTunes are you all using?
Seems like this problem just came about after the last iTunes update.

hi..
ver 10.5.3 (3)

I'm now using serato crates ( serato.com ) but still losing a few year tags..

Hey Justin,

I can reproduce this pretty easily and looks like it might be a bug. Have you tried re-encoding a file and stripping the tags and then re-tagging at all?

Sam.

i'm on that right now just a pain as i,ve bought a fair few from iTunes and they all need doing :/

again as mentioned above.. is there a fix coming for this??

fix??

I've let the developers know about this and they are doing some more investigation currently. I couldn't say how quickly a fix will come for this though as we are still looking into it. I can say that we will fix it though, i just couldn't say when at this stage sorry.

Cheers,

Sam.