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Empty date field isn't considered empty by fb2k

I have some FLAC files downloaded from Japanese digital distributor Mora that have an empty date field (empty, no space whatsoever), but foobar2000's formatting doesn't consider it as empty (means if you put it in square brackets, it still shows):



Any clue why? A "clean up" or "del" on "Date" field does fix the problem, but I'm just curious why it is the case.

Thanks.

Re: Empty date field isn't considered empty by fb2k

Reply #1 –
The field boolean detector does not detect whether the tag is an empty string, but whether it is defined at all.

Re: Empty date field isn't considered empty by fb2k

Reply #2 –
Quote from: kode54 on
The field boolean detector does not detect whether the tag is an empty string, but whether it is defined at all.

Is it possible to have a defined but empty field? Like, if I want to create one myself how should I do it?

Re: Empty date field isn't considered empty by fb2k

Reply #3 –
flac input.wav --tag=date=

Composer and Performer are usually blank coming from EAC presets.

I would clean up the tags. Make warning symbol appear in a playlist column to highlight tracks with issues in their tags. Or use $iflonger() in place of square brackets.

Re: Empty date field isn't considered empty by fb2k

Reply #4 –
Just a note. FLAC used to write empty tags to files but it was fixed in 2017 with FLAC v1.3.2.

Re: Empty date field isn't considered empty by fb2k

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Case on
Just a note. FLAC used to write empty tags to files but it was fixed in 2017 with FLAC v1.3.2.

Thanks for the info.

These files appeared to be encoded with "reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125". So indeed probably why they have this issue to begin with