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+---Topic: Media Player 9 started by RobDiefJr


Posted by: RobDiefJr on Mar. 10 2004,23:00

After converting .shn files to .wav and then to .mp3 I was left with files with no tags.  I used Mp3/Tag Studio 3.05 to first Mass set the tags Artist, Album & Year in both v1 and v2.  I then used "Browse/Edit" to enter the Title and track number.

They look great in Studio ... and I see them fine in XP-Explorer.  However Windows Media Player 9 seems to only see the original file name.  Have I set some setting incorrectly?

Someone please help.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Mar. 11 2004,01:07

That is very hard to tell only from your current explanation, but what I can say is that there has been no earlier reported issues whatsoever with any program or hardware player having any problems to read tags written with Mp3/Tag Studio.
Posted by: -HNN- (I didn't use those ic on Mar. 13 2004,17:22



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After converting .shn files to .wav and then to .mp3 I was left with files with no tags.  I used Mp3/Tag Studio 3.05 to first Mass set the tags Artist, Album & Year in both v1 and v2.  I then used "Browse/Edit" to enter the Title and track number.

They look great in Studio ... and I see them fine in XP-Explorer.  However Windows Media Player 9 seems to only see the original file name.  Have I set some setting incorrectly?

Someone please help.
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(This is my first post and I am bewildered by the complicated interface to send it!;)

Regarding your WMP9 "tag problem":   WMP uses it's own database to track your music file library.  On a Windows 98SE system, it is located at C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Currentdatabase57r.wmdb.  When you first load the base through the GUI to populate it, windows will then utilitize that information to display the ID3 tags until you click on  the (mp3/wma) file to update the database.

If you changed a large number (or all) of your music file's tags, the easiest way to reenter them with the updated information is to delete the above databases (there are two of them on my computer - 57r and 59r - and repopulate the database as you did on the original installation.  If, however, you only redid, for example, several hundred files on a large database of several thousand files, you can sort the database in the large window by location, highlight the files, and then delete them (from MEDIA LIBRARY ONLY!!! - NOT From your computer.  If you make this MISTAKE, you can still recover them from the RECYCLE BIN!;).  Then use the add files button to add the directory of these files (assuming they are in their own folder) back to your library with the updated information.

If you have only a single or few files to update, you can click to play them through MP3/Tag Studio's browse window to update the information.  Sometimes this won't work until or unless you change or add information to change the tag information on the specific file being clicked.  I frequently just add a space to the artist name to get the "write button" to hightlight, and backspace out the unnecessary space, click the write button, and then click the track to play the track which forces Windows to update the item in it's own database when track play begins.  (I hope this post isn't too long!  Sorry if it is!!;)          Harry.    Oakland, California, USA

ps.  Nothing is wrong with Tag Studio, nor WMP!! :)
pps.  I just learned how to edit this post but I don't have a clue as to how the happy faces got entered in this post nor how to delete them!
Posted by: Thomas Hamstrup on April 12 2004,15:36

If the setting "Use unsyncronization when writing ver2tags" is ticked when updating the file, WMP9 (XP) will not recognize the file afterwards.

Remove the tick, update the file again, and it works???
Posted by: Magnus Brading on April 12 2004,16:25

It most likely means that WMP does not support this particular feature of the ID3v2 specification (not many programs do, but it is a valid part of the specification nonetheless). Anyway, this settings is turned off by default in Mp3/TS, so it should not be a problem. Thanks for the report anyway.
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