I bought myself a fancy little MP3/video player from Amazon and it arrived this morning. i want to transfer my MP3s over but first I need to refresh all the ID3 tags so they're correct (as in not saying 'Various Artists' or 'get music from www.blahblah.com' etc)

I downloaded a nice little batch converter called ID3 Renamer, which would update the ID3 of each MP3 from its filename. so if the filename was:

 

C:\my\music\mp3\trance\amara - pulse.mp3

 

...then it would set the ID3 Genre to 'Trance', the ID3 artist to 'Amara' and the title to 'Pulse'. sexy bit of kit and absolutely free.

i batch convert some files to test them, and when i right-click on them in a normal explorer window and hit Properties, it's worked fine - the ID3 info has been updated by the sexy little program.

 

 

however

 

 

when i create a playlist using Windows Media Player 11 (freshly downloaded) and drag the files over, theyve retained their old ID3 tags!?!? :confused: :confused: so instead of listing them properly, it says 'Track 3', 'Various Artists', 'Unknown', etc.

it's as if WMP isn't reading the ID3 tags correctly!?

can anyone suggest whats going wrong cos when i upload the music to my MP3 player it just says whatever WMP has in its playlist (as in "who shall I listen to next, 'Various Artists' or 'Unknown Artist'... hmmm...").

you can do it in itunes mate

hammer

you can do it in itunes mate

 

my new player isnt an iPod tho mate its a Sansa - plays MP3 and other stuff tho. what do you mean by itunes? the web site or some software? like i say though im sure that my batch converter is actually working and renaming the ID3 tags correctly, but Windows Media Player isnt reading them properly, it still lists them when i create a playlist as 'Track 04', 'Unknown' etc...

Download the software from the iTunes site here >> http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

But I don't know whether it'll work for what you want or not.

Hang-on, why are you useing Media Player to create a Play LIst, why not just drag n drop your music directly to the MP3 players software? I did when I had my little MP3 player.

Is WMP actually reading the ID3 tag or making it up from the file path?

 

Use Winamp, then you can right click and edit the tag info directly.

Hang-on, why are you useing Media Player to create a Play LIst, why not just drag n drop your music directly to the MP3 players software? I did when I had my little MP3 player.

 

you can drag and drop the MP3 files directly but when you list the tracks on the MP3 player it reads the ID3 tag and not the filename and so it's like ('Track 01', 'Track 07', 'Various Artists', 'get the latest ringtones', etc.)

 

the way to do this properly according to the user guide is to create a playlist in media player and import it over. this will also import the MP3 files themselves, which works ok (except the tags are still wrong).

 

 

 

Is WMP actually reading the ID3 tag or making it up from the file path?

 

Use Winamp, then you can right click and edit the tag info directly.

 

WMP is reading the tags but gawd only knows where its getting the info from. the filenames of all my MP3s are simply artist - title.mp3. when i view 'properties' from a normal explorer window on the MP3, the tags are CORRECT (after being batch-generated correctly by the free software). but when i drag them into a WMP playlist theyre wrong!? :confused: its as if there's a buffer somewhere of old ID3 tags and WMP is reading these instead of reading the updated ones. I could use Winamp to edit them, but ive got thousands to do and im not a patient man :p

some id`s are read from the the summary in properties. right click on the track, click on properties, them click on summary. what does it say the track title is there ? it may be that one that needs changing. worth a shot.

some id`s are read from the the summary in properties. right click on the track, click on properties, them click on summary. what does it say the track title is there ? it may be that one that needs changing. worth a shot.

 

it's correct! :confused: but when i drag that exact same file into a WMP playlist its as if it ignores everything and decides to call it what it used to be (eg. 'Track 07/Unknown Artist')

 

i found an option under 'Tools' that said 'Apply Media Information Changes' so I clicked this and it churned the harddrive for 5 minutes. ah I thought this is it, guaranteed. guess what, same problem, pmsl!!! WTF?

ok lets narrow the problem down - take one MP3 file. there's no info in its 'summary' page from explorer. load up WMP and create a blank playlist. drag this MP3 into the playlist to add it, and then suddenly its got data, WMP seems to have made up some data from the filename, or made it up by itself :confused: how do i stop WMP adding its own ID3 information?

 

[there is an option that says auto-update from t'internet, but you guessed it, it's turned off :headvswal ]

if it starts off as an mp3 with a title, but when dragged to a wmp playlist and it changes, then wmp must be converting it. its the only explination i can come up with thats fits the bill.