Re: from iTunes to Windows Media Player (ID3 2.4 Tags aren't being rea

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It is not completely obvious but I get the impression you are using MP3
files.

It is possible (obviously) to use AAC in iTunes on on the iPod. Less
obviously it is also possible to add AAC (and Apple Lossless) to WMP and
have it play those as well.

AAC and Apple Lossless (aka. ALAC) use the .m4a file extension and the MPEG4
file format (and MPEG4 meta tags). Since they use a complete different tag
format to MP3 files WMP itself cannot read them. This may actually turn out
to be good news for you.

In order to let WMP read MPEG4 meta tags, you need to install a third-part
plugin and there are two free ones available to do this.

See http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm or
See http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/

I have my entire music library in Apple Lossless ripped from CD using iTunes
and shared with WMP and use one of the above plugins and all the meta tags
work fine in WMP.

Note: These plugins do not support accessing the embedded artwork in AAC or
Apple Lossless files.

On 17/7/08 04:30, in article
FB4FA00B-7FF0-4B54-BF0C-928B3537B7A2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Aust Grunt"
<AustGrunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Guys,

I use iTunes as my default media player and my Windows Media Player as my
360-Link, So I can listen to music from my 360... Now ive spent countless
hours (days?) fixing my library so they have proper tags + art, etc! (for my
iPod, Im a neat freak).

Now the art ain't so much of a problem... The titles are the big deal, it
can become extremely tedious sorting through your entire (2000 songs or so)
list on the 360 when they are all listed by track number and then their name
(file names?)

ANYWAY, the problem is in iTunes they are all automatically made into ID3
2.4 tags... Does Windows Media Player fully support ID3 2.4? because to me it
doesn't... They have their artist names and stuff, but the title is wrong or
missing, the year is missing, but some info is there...

IF I convert the file to ID3 2.3 it appears properly in Windows Media
Player... so my question is this, is there a way for Windows Media Player to
fully support 2.4? or do I have to convert it to 2.3?

Thanks!

.

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