Bandcamp importer uses modified date as release date

[bdb484]

I've been getting lots of wrong dates when importing albums from Bandcamp, and I just today figured out that it's apparently grabbing the date that an album was most recently modified on Bandcamp and using that as the release date.

Here's the page were I most recently encountered the issue: https://konono1.bandcamp.com/album/congotronics

[taylorthurlow]

FWIW I just used the script for https://hellometeor.bandcamp.com/album/baish-caplan, which at the time of writing has a release date of 2024-09-22, and a last-modified date of 2024-11-25, and the script correctly used the September release date when filling the MB form.

[Jormangeud]

The modified date is usually correct, as the content has likely been changed as well.

Usually you should try to check why the dates differ, like some songs or art get removed/added/replaced, so they are technically new releases with the modified date as the release date.
Of course you can try to check the artist's community page for some message about the update.

If no changes are visible, try to check if archive.org has the old version captured.