My Music Media Library - Artist Info & MP3 tags

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Low-Rider (Low-Rider_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/06/04


Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:57:02 -0700

Why won't the media library show the Artist Info that is in the MP3 tag? It
appeara that artist info is not shown unless the media ceetner looks up the
info from their own database.... and half the time it gets it wrong. It
seems to also like to change the album name, even though I said only update
missing information.

is there anyway to get artist info into the media center library without
having to "find" the album information?

I'm talking about the Album view -> view by cover, when I highlight an album
it will show "Unknown Artist", enven thought the information is in the mp3
tag.

If I go to find album information, it sometimes changes the name of the
ablum or only finds information for some of the tracks... it generally sucks.

I've rambled on enough....



Relevant Pages

  • library fails so sort on 1st search
    ... how ever when i use the monitor folders tab in media player to find all my ... but doesnt assign any artist info or album info. it simply says the ... name of the song, under unknown album. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player)
  • Re: bogus album/artist info
    ... It's a problem with WMP v9/10. ... The album data acquisition and ... > changes only the song title, not the artist info. can anyone help?! ... disassociate WMP's assignation of album data. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player)
  • RE: library fails so sort on 1st search
    ... how ever when i use the monitor folders tab in media player to find all my ... but doesnt assign any artist info or album info. it simply says the ... name of the song, under unknown album. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player)
  • Help ! no play list info when ripping.
    ... Hi all, hope you can help, I`m running XP Home, the problem is when ripping ... an album, to windows media player, I don`t get the album / artist info on ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.music)