New albums I add to my library appear as if they had been added in 1904, even though their metadata is correct. Is this happening to anyone else? Is there a fix? It's a minor bug, but it's very annoying for me, considering the way I like to listen to music and use the app daily.
Edit: Restarting the app fixes the bug temporarily, but it comes back as soon as I add a new album to my library.
MacBook Air 13″
1 January 1904 is an epoch start date for various systems, including classic macOS, and may well have been incorporated in the iTunes and then Music codebase. A value of 0 in the date field should show a blank year, but any potential offset added to correct for time zone would result in a non-zero value, that could then display as 1904. Add the correct Year when you add a new album to the library and it won't be an issue.
tt2
The year in the metadata is correct. This issue only happens in the "Recently Added" section of the app. It's a bit tricky to explain, but the app seems to think that the album was added to my library in the year 1904 (and not that the album itself is from the year 1904).
My mistake, presumably the same sort of thing but affecting a different field. A zero(ish) value is being read back because a sensible value hasn't been stored. Date Added is not a field that you can edit or manipulate via a script, which makes fixing this after the fact a little tricky. What specific builds of macOS and Music are involved? You might try holding down option+cmd as you launch Music which runs some internal consistency checks and might possibly help. Otherwise you might need to await the next build and then remove and reimport the affected albums.
tt2
Have you gone into System Settings and made sure that your System time is correct?
Set the date and time automatically on your Mac - Apple Support
Just did that, everything looks fine. I also tried rebooting my Mac, but that didn't help either.
Whenever I add an album to my library, it shows as if it had been added in the year 1904
