diff --git a/music_tagmove_lib b/music_tagmove_lib
index e120eee..cd09924 100644
--- a/music_tagmove_lib
+++ b/music_tagmove_lib
@@ -113,17 +113,32 @@ function read_tag_id3 {
 	fi
 }
 
+function ffprobe_readtag {
+	local tag="$1"
+	local file="$2"
+	ffprobe -loglevel error -show_entries format_tags="$tag" -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "$file"
+}
+
 function read_tag_fallback {
 	local tag="$1"
 	local file="$2"
+	local tag_original="$tag"
 
-	local result=$(ffprobe -loglevel error -show_entries format_tags="$tag" -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "$file")
+	local result=
+	if [[ "$tag" == 'date' ]]; then
+		result=$(ffprobe_readtag "$tag" "$file")
+		if [[ -z $result ]]; then
+			tag='year'
+		fi
+
+	fi
+	result=$(ffprobe_readtag "$tag" "$file")
 	if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
-		error "Reading tag \"$tag\" from \"$file\" failed (ffprobe failed)"
+		error "Reading tag \"$tag_original\" from \"$file\" failed (ffprobe failed)"
 		return
 	fi
 	if [[ -z $result ]]; then
-		error "Reading tag \"$tag\" from \"$file\" failed (result empty)"
+		error "Reading tag \"$tag_original\" from \"$file\" failed (result empty)"
 		return
 	fi
 	echo "$result"