WMP11 problems with MP3 ID3 tag data

[examancer]

I use a 3rd party program (MP3tag) to update the ID3 information on my MP3
files because it can do several at once. I have about 300 files that I
recently ripped from CD that were missing the ID3 tag information
(technically, most of them had ID3 tags, but it was ID3v2.4 which WMP does
not appear to support). I re-tagged all of the files with both ID3v2.3 (which
WMP reads fine from my other MP3s) and ID3v1 tag information. Winamp and
every other media program I have tried recognizes the ID3 tag information,
but WMP still shows them as unknown artist and doesn't read any tag
information.

I have tried removing the files from the library and then re-adding them...
that didn't work. I wouldn't really care about WMP not recognizing the
information since I don't use it much, but this tag information is fed to my
Xbox360 for media streaming and it becomes a real pain-in-the-ass to search
through artists to unknown and scroll through these 300+ songs and manually
adding each song to the playlist when I want to listen to a particular artist
affected by this issue.

 

[Don W]

WMP chokes if there is a slight problem (or what it perceives to be a
problem) with tag data. First, make sure all tag info is incorporated into
the file name (use mp3tag to do this). Then clear the tags. Then remake the
tags from the file name. Perhaps there is an easier way to do this but this
works for me. I'ver had the same problem where WMP can't read the tag but
Media Monkey and Winamp did not have a problem.