RE: WMP 12: Arist vs. Album Artist...WHY?? How to fix?
- From: Vanshaj Daga <VanshajDaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:11:01 -0800
Hi John
The problem is little weird. Firstly try to check if the files that remained
in the music folder are read only. If not then were they playing or in use
during the update. If so then there is a good chance that media info is not
updated in these files. You can remove read only from such files if they are
not already. Then select all files in the music folder at once and right
click then come to properties and then come to details tab and remove album
artist and other data and click apply. Then try to update it again. I also
read about you next problem concerning multiple album arts, i need to say
only one thing that album art is saved one in one folder. If all the music is
in one folder then only one album art will be available for all. If you put
your music album wise as the media player is doing then you will get the
right album art on each album. Hope it solves the problem. One quick note in
the end, defragment your hard drive before album update and close all other
programs and useless services so that the file is not in use even by other
windows services. Hope it helps...
--
Vanshaj Daga
vanshajdaga2002net@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.akshitagroup.co.cc
"John" wrote:
Hi All,.
Maybe I'm just bad at searching the internet, but I've spent 2 days looking
for a solution to a pretty major problem, and I'm astounded I seem to be the
only person in the world with it.
I just did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro. On my old box, I had one huge
folder with all my thousands of MP3s, which I copied into "My Music" on my
new Win7 box.
When I started up WMP for the first time, I set the options to automatically
download info from the net, rename files based on tag info, etc, as I had
never bothered to do anything like this before to organize my mp3s.
Immediately WMP went to work updating my mp3s. Good stuff.
Now to illustrate the problem. Lets use the example of 5 Aerosmith songs I
have from the album Get a Grip. When WMP was all done with scanning my mp3s
and updating info, everything appeared fine in WMP. That is, I could scroll
to artist "Aerosmith" and then to the album "Get a Grip" complete with cover
art, and see the 5 songs. Again, good stuff. Then I clicked "Show file
location" and noticed something weird...
WMP player had automatically created the folder My Music\Aerosmith\Get a
Grip. Awesome. Problem is, the "Get a Grip" folder only had 4 songs, despite
the fact that in WMP I could see FIVE songs in the album. I searched for the
5th song and noticed that it was still orphaned in the base My Music folder.
Why the hell hadn't it been moved with the rest? When I did some poking
around, I found the
answer:
The 5th song didn't have "Album Artist" set, whereas the other 4
songs DID have it set to Aerosmith. Umm, seriously? Now multiply this issue
over hundreds of albums....
First of all, why the hell would WMP do this? That is, sort the VIEW by
"Artist", but sort the FILE SYSTEM by "Album Artist" ???
Second, how can I solve this? My first idea was just to download a tagger
program to en mass update all my mp3s that have blank "Album Artist" to just
set Album Artist = Artist. Fail, despite dozens of tagger programs, none have
this simple functionality. My second idea is to make WMP organize the file
system based on Artist, not Album artist. Again, no such option exists.
Any ideas? Why am I the only human on the planet with this problem??
- References:
- Prev by Date: RE: WMP 12: Arist vs. Album Artist...WHY?? How to fix?
- Next by Date: RE: Handling of Album Art in Media Player 12 is a disaster
- Previous by thread: RE: WMP 12: Arist vs. Album Artist...WHY?? How to fix?
- Next by thread: Handling of Album Art in Media Player 12 is a disaster
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
