Bizarre behaviour

[Terry Pinnell]

I've been working with a lot of MP3 files today from various sources,
all single tracks. Some of them are acting very oddly. I'm displaying
all of them in a Windows folder, with columns for Filename, Artist,
Title, Year, etc. Most don't have an Artist tag so I r-click and add
one. But just a small minority do not *display* this in the window.
It's present in the Artist box when I examine its properties again -
but not in the folder column! Same with other tags.

Anyone have any idea what's happening here please?

 

[Mike Williams]

I've been working with a lot of MP3 files today from various sources,
all single tracks. Some of them are acting very oddly. I'm displaying
all of them in a Windows folder, with columns for Filename, Artist,
Title, Year, etc. Most don't have an Artist tag so I r-click and add
one. But just a small minority do not *display* this in the window.
It's present in the Artist box when I examine its properties again -
but not in the folder column! Same with other tags.

Anyone have any idea what's happening here please?

Possibly corrupt or compressed headers in the file. Windows doesn't
handle them well. You can try opening the files in Winamp and editing
the tags there.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Possibly corrupt or compressed headers in the file. Windows doesn't
handle them well. You can try opening the files in Winamp and editing
the tags there.

Thanks. The tags look fine in MediaMonkey, my usual player/organiser,
but just refuse to appear in Windows.

 

[Mike Williams]

Thanks. The tags look fine in MediaMonkey, my usual player/organiser,
but just refuse to appear in Windows.

Yes almost every mainstream program bar Media Player and Windows itself
can handle them. You'll still have to edit them with a tool like WinAmp.