diff -Naur eyeD3-0.6.8.orig/src/eyeD3/frames.py eyeD3-0.6.8/src/eyeD3/frames.py
--- eyeD3-0.6.8.orig/src/eyeD3/frames.py	2005-08-30 07:16:58 +0600
+++ eyeD3-0.6.8/src/eyeD3/frames.py	2005-08-30 12:45:20 +0600
@@ -774,6 +774,10 @@
                # Witnessed oddball tags with NULL bytes (ozzy.tag from id3lib)
                d = d.strip("\x00");
 
+               # fix incorrect (too long) TYER frames
+               if self.header.id == OBSOLETE_YEAR_FID and len(d) > 4:
+                  d = d[:4]
+
                try:
                   self.date = time.strptime(d, fmt);
                except TypeError, ex: