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any way to make foobar keep timestamp?

Hi!

Yeah well the title says it all: is there a way to make foobar keep the timestamp of files when encoding or tagging? And i'd be happy if it was possible only for tagging.. Couldn't find the respective option in foobar (0.9.4.5). One of the few issues that are standing in the way of my highly personalized perfect player would be a playlist that updates itself and is sorted by the time i added the songs to my library. So i was trying to achieve that by sorting an autoplaylist by the timestamp (how would that field be called anyway?) when i realized that whenever i would change some tag in a file (or the file itself - e.g. by replacing it with another other version) that was already in my library, foobar would renew the timestamp of the file and my playlist would be messed up.. Right now i am using iTunes - which i kinda have to because of my iPod - and so i am exporting "smart" playlists and converting them into m3us on a regular basis.. but iTunes sucks. And so does the iPod but that's another issue.
And if anybody could point me to another solution to achieve my goal, i'd be very grateful!
Well, thanks in advance for any replies!


any way to make foobar keep timestamp?

Reply #2
Well, the "timestamp" i am talking about is not exactly a tag.. I mean the timestamp of windows. Each file gets a timestamp from windows and if You access the properties of a file You'll be able to see the date of it's last access, the date it's been made, filesize and so on.. but also, the date it has been last modified. And that's what i am talking about. Even thought i don't know how the field would be called i am pretty sure there must be one?

any way to make foobar keep timestamp?

Reply #3
As far as i can tell, there is %lastmodified% and with foo_cwb_hooks there is %cwb_created%

 

any way to make foobar keep timestamp?

Reply #4
Leaving the file modification date untouched when updating a file does not make any sense. Doing so would violate Windows conventions. It is intended to keep track of the last time a file has been changed, and nothing else. If you need to assign some custom timestamp to your files, this is not the way to do it. Even foobar2000 itself relies on it to determine updated files when rescanning the media library, and so do, for example, most backup applications.

The solution is to store the date which you would like to remember in a tag.

If I remember correctly, there exists a component that does that automatically once you add files to your library.

P.S. The title formatting field you asked for is: %lastmodified%.

any way to make foobar keep timestamp?

Reply #5
UGH! yeah.. @ buktore: %lastmodified%.. See, i knew that, but i was so focused on "timestamp" that i didn't even really think.. Thanks alot!
Anyways, @ Frank Bicking: what You say does make sense and if i wouldn't know it better i would probably leave it at that, but as far as i know Mp3tag does exactly that - or at least what i originally meant. Thre is an option that's called - specifically for You now, "Zeitstempel bei Dateien beibehalten". For all the others, roughly translated it'd something like "Keep original date of files".. So i hope we're talking about wo different things? Cause i don't think there's a plugin only for that function!?