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why is windows media player changing my tags?

mudshadow	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 12:31 PM At least I suspect it's wmp. Suddenly mp3s of my music are sportin' false tags with other people's names and album titles. Anyone else?
FraDonaghy	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 12:43 PM Hi Bill. WMP sometimes auto updates info from the net. Click on "Tools" (if you're using WMP 11, click ALT to access the drop down menu), then click "options". In there, open the "Library" tab and make sure the option "Retrieve additional information from the internet" is unchecked. That should stop it doing this. I noticed it once myself, when I recorded a version of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide". It changed the tags to say the artist was fleetwood mac, and even gave me the album art. Hope this helps!
mudshadow	Date: July 21, 2008 @ 3:17 PM thanks man. Funny thing is, it's taking files of my original stuff, some of which I never bothered to tag, and put names of artists I've never even heard of before on them. I'll tweak those bits tho and see how it goes...
Tattoomom	Date: July 22, 2008 @ 1:56 AM That happened to me before with some of your original stuff, Bill. When I put Dreaming Girl on my computer at work, it gave me album art and tags for some band I never heard of....
Opossum	Date: July 22, 2008 @ 2:09 AM Windows is a virus.
zedsalt	Date: July 22, 2008 @ 3:55 AM Of course, none of this is likely to get the delightfully-ironically-named Microsoft to even stop touting it as a "feature", let alone consider removing/improving it.
zedsalt	Date: July 22, 2008 @ 4:00 AM And don't even get me started on perforated spiralbound notebook paper. It's a noteBOOK, dammit! A BOOK for KEEPING one's notes! "Complaints about noodgies"?!? Who's complaining about noodgies? There are cures for that, you know; they're called LOOSE LEAF PAPER and THREE RING BINDERS!!! I just want a big spiralbound notebook with the narrow lines ("college ruled") and NO PERFORATIONS. Does anyone know where I can find one?
ShadowMom	Date: July 24, 2008 @ 5:34 PM cough winamp. Or else MS home
FraDonaghy	Date: July 24, 2008 @ 11:00 PM I know it is controversial, but I like WMP. It just takes a little bit of training.
mudshadow	Date: July 25, 2008 @ 2:41 AM I like wmp too, purely for it's universal functionality and reliability. I always have problems with winamp, it's simply not as solid of a utility.
GeneHilbert	Date: July 25, 2008 @ 6:41 AM I keep wmp only because I have to. I use Winamp, and never have problems with it. RA, wmp, and quicktime all hijack your default settings. Talk about viruses.
zedsalt	Date: July 26, 2008 @ 3:34 AM I always give a little test listen in WMP to the MP3s I post, just because it's the player I see being used the most often. It does seem to be a bit more sensitive to extreme frequencies not converting right from WAV to MP3, and I'd rather sacrifice a little sound quality for the audiophiles out there than make files that are borderline unlistenable to the majority of listeners (insert your own joke here about how my other creative decisions achieve just that). I had an odd little scare the other day...well, too mild even to accurately refer to as "a scare", but it was definitely odd. In converting a handful of tunes to MP3, moving them about from 'puter to 'puter, etc. I had one folder contents display come up wherein all of the Windows icons for WAVs and MP3s had turned into powder blue stylized esses. The closest I came to changing anything...or changing anything back...was hitting the forward and back arrow buttons on the screen.
Opossum	Date: August 4, 2008 @ 8:07 PM Anyhow, my version of Wavelab (and several other programs I have) will not recognize a file that's been altered by Windows Media Player, which is ridiculous. Always have plenty of backups and never play your original with Windows Media Player. It's the ID3 tags many programs refuse to recognize, and then they have to be removed (Winamp will quickly do this - just uncheck that section and it will update) to work again with other players and editors. ID3 is really a serious problem and a REAL PAIN with many MP3 files, and if you have a program that won't recognize a particular MP3 (or even reports that it is corrupt) removing the ID3 tag always fixes that for me.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: August 4, 2008 @ 11:27 PM Zed, it sounds like your default media player got changed to something else, such as Real or Quicktime, who have different icons to represent this stuff. For me, it's easy to see if you change from WMP to winamp as your default, .wavs and .ogg files get that orange lightning bolt as an icon and mp3 is represented by a musical note. (yeah, real imaginative !) Go in your control panel and check. Otherwise, sometimes there are different sets of icons selectable within a program, maybe this got adjusted. Any of this is preferable to a 3rd scenario, which is your computer got hacked by something like adware/spyware !!
zedsalt	Date: August 5, 2008 @ 3:37 AM Yeah, I've had that happen from time to time. What made this different was that it occurred when the only thing I changed was what file I was looking into. I mean, I looked in, say, "Zedly" for a file, hit the up button, looked in "Zediddly", thought "Wait, I might have titled that such-and-such", hit the back arrow, looked in "Zediddly Doo", thought "Well, maybe it was in Zedly after all", hit the up button, looked in Zedly...and all of the icons were different...then I hit the up button, checked a couple of other folders, went back to the Zedly folder...they had changed back...I didn't even do so much as open a file, just browsed through folders using the back key and up arrow in Windows.
TameasDust	Date: August 6, 2008 @ 11:53 PM I just put all the DMusic music I downloaded over the years and played it in windows media player ... including covers ... maybe I will get investigated ... buwahahahahaha

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