[black_eagle]

I'm not sure what the best practice is for ID3 2.3 tags?  Right now I have TYER YYYY and TDRC YYYY-MM-DD for release date

Are you sure ?  TDRC is a 2.4 tag, replacing the equivalent TYER + TDAT tags in 2.3.  Ape tags only override ID3 tags if you set them to in AS.xml as far as I know. TORY/TDOR (v2.3/v2.4) are the frames for original release date. The ape equivalent is ORIGINALYEAR (takes a full date AFAIK).

Oh, forgot to say earlier in the thread, but if you want to use the iso dates from the tags in the gui, rather than the localized dates, then you can add

xml:


<musiclibrary>

    <useisodates>true</useisodates>

</musiclibrary>

to your AS.xml file.