Bizarre behaviour

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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?
 
Terry said:
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?
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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.
 
Mike Williams said:
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.
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Thanks. The tags look fine in MediaMonkey, my usual player/organiser,
but just refuse to appear in Windows.
 
Terry said:
Thanks. The tags look fine in MediaMonkey, my usual player/organiser,
but just refuse to appear in Windows.
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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.
 
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