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Help with tagging / naming an audio file

SimonWaldram	Date: July 6, 2008 @ 11:08 PM I did made a song recently and when it was finished I titled the final mix with my name and the name of the song...as you do. However When I play the song in Windows Media Player it changes it from Song title - artist to __temp__ Why would it do this and what can I do to stop it?
hantu	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 1:48 AM it's the tags i suppose, maybe the program you used to save the file gave it that tagging for some reason. take it into winamp, higlight the track, press Alt+3, and check all the tags. unless you mean you have done that and it's still giving _temp_ ? you can change the tags in wmp, i think yeh, sure you can.
FraDonaghy	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 1:55 AM Right click on the thumbnail of the file and go to properties. Then click the Summary tab, and if necessary click "advanced" at the bottom of the window. (If the only option is "Simple" then you are already on the advanced selection). Fill in the required information in each field and then hit apply then OK. Hope this helps.
miraclemaker	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 3:41 AM Its probably best to tag it before uploading too. Ive had the same thing happen with a track that was not fully tagged in the properties section as FraDonaghy mentioned.
GeneHilbert	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 3:47 AM Just out of curiosity.... what program did you use?
leedsquietman	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 6:10 AM you can great a very nice freeware id3 tagger / ogg vorbis commentary tagger called Mp3Tag. url
SimonWaldram	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 10:32 AM Well, MP3tag didn't work, changing the properties didn't work, but just changing the name in Windows Media Player seems to have done the trick! Maybe it was an issue with that rather than the track tagging itself...I don't know. And, Gene, it was Guitar Tracks Pro I used to mixdown the track. Thanks for the advice, guys. I really appreciate your time
Distilled1	Date: July 7, 2008 @ 11:00 AM I think that Windows player does that a lot that temp... don't know why, thats why I use win amp and I can do great tag edits right there as I listen...hey its how all those un tagged tracks here at DMusic get tags for the radio!!!