diff --git a/mopidy/audio/tags.py b/mopidy/audio/tags.py
index bdf58600..79ab346c 100644
--- a/mopidy/audio/tags.py
+++ b/mopidy/audio/tags.py
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ def convert_tags_to_track(tags):
     album_kwargs['musicbrainz_id'] = tags.get('musicbrainz-albumid', [None])[0]
 
     album_kwargs['date'] = tags.get(Gst.TAG_DATE, [None])[0]
+    if not album_kwargs['date']:
+        datetime = tags.get(Gst.TAG_DATE_TIME, [None])[0]
+        if datetime is not None:
+            album_kwargs['date'] = datetime.split('T')[0]
 
     # Clear out any empty values we found
     track_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in track_kwargs.items() if v}
diff --git a/tests/audio/test_tags.py b/tests/audio/test_tags.py
index 6dfa909d..6a838a27 100644
--- a/tests/audio/test_tags.py
+++ b/tests/audio/test_tags.py
@@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ class TagsToTrackTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.tags['date'].append('2030-01-01')
         self.check(self.track)
 
+    def test_datetime_instead_of_date(self):
+        del self.tags['date']
+        self.tags['datetime'] = ['2006-01-01T14:13:12Z']
+        self.check(self.track)
+
     def test_missing_track_comment(self):
         del self.tags['comment']
         self.check(self.track.replace(comment=None))