Media Player Series 9 and MP3 Tags

[David]

I've used the automatic content getting thing for music
files--it retrieves the album information automatically,
or manually if I click Get Album Info.
This all works fine in Windows Media Player, but outside
of it, it seems that the ID3 tags have remained the
same. I have set it to overwrite any information that
may be there.

Are the tags not edited with the album information
retriever? Is there a way to get it to write it to the
files? If I send the files to my MP3 player using
Windows Media Player will it copy the good album
information too?

Thanks!

 

[zachd [ms]]

It writes the track data on a lazy basis provided that your system clock is
set correctly. So it will update the tracks, just not instantly - it
usually takes several minutes and WMP generally waits until your system is a
little idle before writing the changes back to the files. Odd but true.

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[David]

Thanks! That is really weird. I wish they'd make a
button that did all of that at once, but whatever. Now
that I look at it, since I've posted the question, I've
left my computer on overnight a few times, and it seems
like it has updated half of them or something.
Does Windows Media Player need to be open, or does it run
some hidden process?

Err, you do mean over the span of a few days, right? o_0

 

[zachd [ms]]

If you make lots of updates, it'll take forever.
WMP does have to be open during that time.

-Zach
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