LemonSqueezy
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Posted: Dec. 30 2013,12:25 |
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EDIT:
Ok .. lighbulb moment perhaps: WMP and Windows Explorer (you're on a 2003 OS with a few updates) can't read ID3v2.4 tags AFAIK. If you see a file with no tags - copy it back to your windows 7 pc and check the properties (either in windows explorer, or mp3ts, or in your player, or in foobar or itunes or anything modern). This could be the answer and they're not damaged at all. (still, doesn't explain the missing bitrate info unless the tag info causes a halt to reading properties which seems unlikely). There could also be other propietary "scraps" or even APE. I know Winamp would read left over APE over any id3 tags at one stage - drove me nuts as to why it wouldn't display something properly.
Like I said - that mp3tag linked to earlier - you can install it, run it, point it at your entire 50k music dir, and then sort by tag and you will see what is actually in your files. This way you can detect zero tags (indicates a problem) or if everything has a tag you will see the sorting differentiates between different id3 versions and multiple tags. So you can easily spot all those with just 2.4 or just APE etc. You'll see.
The only other thing I can think of is to do with unicode (you should be using UTF-16 ) - but if you can see most tags, just not a handful, then i doubt that's it.
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Ahh .. I just assumed a 7 or 8 yr old second hand server - my bad.
I could be off track (and you didn't answer my questions about the validity/integrity of the "truncated" mp3s), but (and I know this is win server 2003, which I'm not all that familiar with) I hate external programs trying to mess and edit my id3 tags etc in my mp3s - like auto adding v1 tags if I manually add lyrics, or appending ratings and play counts (my portable winamp llama's arse database can track all that). I just want clean do once, v2.3+ tags (artist, album, trackno, genre, year, title and BMP - nothing else), and nothing embedded. No garbage, no left over proprietary scraps. and NO other programs editing it without my knowledge. And from experience over the years trying new players and libraries/databases, a lot do attempt to interfere (either auto adding lyrics or looking up gracenote etc, changing my stylizations or proper case or accents etc, undoing all my super consistence (thru mp3ts) work and painstaking internet research. And Windows media player, from the little I know about, has/had a reputation for doing this sort of thing - I'm not saying that's the actual case (but read this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Services ) - and it probably depends if you even use it on the server.
But - I would check scheduled tasks, look at mp3 file associations (just stick on a portable foobar and associate mp3s with that), look at any windows media services, windows media preferences.
I assume you use Windows 2003 server in order to share/stream to multiple computers/devices? There are easier ways. And of course you may use it for more than just your music - only you know what's best 
You could fix all mp3s with missing tags and then stick an audit on the music dir. You could also check the last modified date stamp of files.
Or you could slap on some flavor of Linux : )
Edited by LemonSqueezy on Dec. 30 2013,12:46
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