Windows 7: ID3 Tags Vanished

oxben · 21 Jul 2009

Hello,

I updated from 7100 to 7600.16385 at the weekend - a fresh install. All appears to have gone well apart from the lack of ID3 tags on my MP3s... all 17000+ of them.

My MP3's are stored on an external drive, but my previous Windows 7 installation had Public music pointed to that folder. Once I had 7600.16385 back up and running it told me I needed to take ownership of the music folder which I duely did.
Now that has completed I can access my music but I still have a padlock symbol on my music folder, and every single ID3 tag from my music no longer exists.

Any idea what could have happened? Have they really been deleted? Please say that isn't the case!!

Thanks,

Ben.

ciphernemo · 21 Jul 2009

I never understand why people have to get the latest leaked builds from torrents, etc. It's handled by a third party, so there's no telling what someone might have slipped into the build on their own.

And the RC-1 is more than stable enough to carry Seven enthusiasts through until RTM is released. In fact, running this leaked build is asking for trouble.

At any rate...

Quote: Originally Posted by oxben

Hello,

I updated from 7100 to 7600.16385 at the weekend - a fresh install. All appears to have gone well apart from the lack of ID3 tags on my MP3s... all 17000+ of them.

Have you tried viewing the ID3 tags in another MP3 player other than Windows Media Player? I'd recommend something like Foobar2000 or Winamp.

DarkAudit · 22 Jul 2009

Give the files a run through mp3tag. It will tell you what version of the tag you're using.

WMP12 and Explorer are kinda picky about what tags they'll recognize. They don't play well with ID3v2.4 at all. If there's even a sniff of that version, no information gets through. The file will still play, though.

WMP12 and Explorer want ID3v2.3 tags. And you're advised to not let WMP fill in missing tags off the internet. In the RC builds, WMP12 would make a mess of the hash tags Musicbrainz Picard put in.

SquonkSC · 22 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by oxben

Hello,

I updated from 7100 to 7600.16385 at the weekend - a fresh install. All appears to have gone well apart from the lack of ID3 tags on my MP3s... all 17000+ of them.

My MP3's are stored on an external drive, but my previous Windows 7 installation had Public music pointed to that folder. Once I had 7600.16385 back up and running it told me I needed to take ownership of the music folder which I duely did.
Now that has completed I can access my music but I still have a padlock symbol on my music folder, and every single ID3 tag from my music no longer exists.

Any idea what could have happened? Have they really been deleted? Please say that isn't the case!!

Thanks,

Ben.

Hi ben,

Taking ownership is not enough.

You must also add your current username to the list in security. (don''t forget to give yourself full rights.)

If that will fix the tags, I'm not sure about but probability is high.

I take from you being able to take ownership, you also know what I mean by adding your username.

If not, I can help you with that.

greetz and good luck

johngalt · 23 Jul 2009

squon is correct - since it still has the padlock icon on it, it is technically not under your total ownership - so processes that run under your credentials may need to run additional processes in the background - but when they do, they are blocked by the ownership / privilege issues associated with Windows 7 and old storage drives.

I had a similar issue, not only with tags, but lots of other things too - taking ownership did no always solve my issues, and in one case, even adding my user name to the allowed security group for the parent folder still did not help.

In this case, though, it should....

oxben · 25 Jul 2009

Thanks to everyones help. It turns out it was a mixture of the folder being set to Read Only (no idea how!) and the security permissions, even though set, not drilling down to the child objects properties.
I removed all bar Administrator properties, added them again but this time selected the option to replace all child object permissions.

That seems to have fixed it!

Thanks for all your help,

Ben.

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