Editing year for selected tracks

[alonwa]

Hi,
I've been using dbPoweramp ripper for a few months now (after years of using EAC) and am very happy with it. I have an issue, though, with modifying the year for selected tracks. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When it works well and I select a subset of the tracks, many fields (including year, composer and more) get a light blue background color and when I edit the field only the selected tracks are modified. However, sometimes (maybe in about half the cases) this does not apply for the year field. I select a subset of tracks, many fields get the light blue background, but the year field stays with white background and when I modify it, the year changes for all tracks and not just for the selected tracks. The only way I found to exit this state and edit the year just for the selected tracks is to eject and close the CD drive forcing it to reread the CD, which is not very convenient.
Is this a known issue? Is there a fix?
I'm using the latest version.
Thanks,
Alon

[Spoon]

Windows or macOS?

[alonwa]

Windows

[Spoon]

Is there something you do for those discs? such as select compilation? or anything different than other discs?

[alonwa]

I couldn't identify what's special about the discs where this happens. I always deselect compilation if it's selected based on the database, but I can't say whether it's correlated to when this happens. Maybe it is, because after I eject and close the CD drive, I don't need to deselect it again (because it remembers the deselction) and then I think it always works right. Next time I have a batch of CDs to rip, I'll try to see whether it's correlated with that

[alonwa]

It seems like you were in the right direction. I checked a few CDs from my collection. From the few cases I checked, if the DB identifies the CD as a compilation and I deselect it, the bug happens and I can't change the year for only the selected tracks. Actually, in such discs, if I select a few tracks, and then I toggle the Compilation on and off, then the Year and Artists fields will show white background when Compilation is deselected and light blue background when Compilation is selected.
At the very least I now have an easier workaround (faster than ejecting, reloading and waiting for the CD to be reread), which is to edit the Year first and only then deselect Compilation and if I forgot and already deselected Compilation, I can turn it on, edit the Year and turn it off again. Of course, if the bug can be fixed, that would be even better.
Thanks

[GBrown]

if the DB identifies the CD as a compilation and I deselect it, the bug happens and I can't change the year for only the selected tracks. Actually, in such discs, if I select a few tracks, and then I toggle the Compilation on and off, then the Year and Artists fields will show white background when Compilation is deselected and light blue background when Compilation is selected.

This makes perfect sense. The YEAR field is designed to be the year of the release of the ALBUM. In theory this should be the same for all tracks.

For some users, the preference with compilations is to use the year of the release for each track. Not really ideal IMO but the program can accomodate this. I personally prefer to use YEAR as the release time of the album, and then ORIGYEAR as the release time for each track.

[alonwa]

I think the intention of the program was to allow individual editing of year. Each one tags differently. I personally use year for year of recording, so that can easily be different between tracks of the same disc