Music file tags can't be edited

baarod · 07 Sep 2010

kuy said:

baarod said:

How many files are there? If you post them somewhere I will fix them. None of those tags are required but if they are there and suffering from Mojibake due to character encoding issues they will stop some programs dead. That's why REMOVING the tags and enforcing UTF-16 encoding when they are rewritten helps. If that doesn't fly then clear the those tags using MP3tag.

Thanks a lot for the offer, but there are quite a lot of files! I've tried everything I can think of with mp3tag - changing the tags to v2.3, removing the tags and hand-editing, trying different encodings, etc - as well as a few other solutions that people on this and other forums have suggested, and nothing's changed the error/problems I'm encountering. I think I'll just give up and re-rip the albums!

Thanks for the help.

Zip up a particularly good example and attach it or upload it to http://drop.io/wl5o9ln with password "kuy" and I'll fix it and tell you how to fix the others.

kuy · 08 Sep 2010

baarod said:

Zip up a particularly good example and attach it or upload it to http://drop.io/wl5o9ln with password "kuy" and I'll fix it and tell you how to fix the others.

Thanks a lot, that sounds great. I've uploaded two files (named 04 Hello Brooklyn 2.0.mp3 and 12 Success.mp3) to that website.

jimbo45 · 08 Sep 2010

Hi there
try the latest version of MP3tag -- works 100% -- as well as MP3 you can edit FLAC and loads of other audio files too.

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Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

cheers
jimbo

kuy · 08 Sep 2010

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
try the latest version of MP3tag -- works 100% -- as well as MP3 you can edit FLAC and loads of other audio files too.

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Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

cheers
jimbo

Thanks, but like I said I've already tried mp3tag

fseal · 08 Sep 2010

Are these mp3s file that you "created" under a different user account from a previous install of windows?

They may be write locked to your current account because by permission they still belong to that other account. You can "Take Ownership" of them (Search this forum for those words) to get full edit permissions for them. This can be done on whole folders at once.

Before just blindly taking ownership though, right click one of the files then click Properties then Security, then click your user acount name and see if "Full Control" is checked (As well as Modify/Write). If not then you need to take ownership of the files.

kuy · 08 Sep 2010

fseal said:

Are these mp3s file that you "created" under a different user account from a previous install of windows?

They may be write locked to your current account because by permission they still belong to that other account. You can "Take Ownership" of them (Search this forum for those words) to get full edit permissions for them. This can be done on whole folders at once.

Before just blindly taking ownership though, right click one of the files then click Properties then Security, then click your user acount name and see if "Full Control" is checked (As well as Modify/Write). If not then you need to take ownership of the files.

Cheers, but Full Control is checked, as is everything else.

baarod · 08 Sep 2010

kuy said:

baarod said:

Zip up a particularly good example and attach it or upload it to http://drop.io/wl5o9ln with password "kuy" and I'll fix it and tell you how to fix the others.

Thanks a lot, that sounds great. I've uploaded two files (named 04 Hello Brooklyn 2.0.mp3 and 12 Success.mp3) to that website.

You are not crazy. Something is seriously amiss with these two files. Sorry, I don't usually give up but...

hybridfan · 09 Sep 2010

Foobar2000 can rebuild a .mp3 stream, try it might just work

foobar2000

Gornot · 09 Sep 2010

kuy said:

The troublesome files have ID3v2.3 tags, if that helps. They are also missing entries in the mp3Tag columns headed Codec, Bitrate, Frequency and VBR, and their Length is 00.00. However, they play fine! (I'm using Winamp v5.571 to play music files, if that matters)

This is usually the result of improper ripping settings and bad ripping software, and although they may play fine in your media player of choice, the files are indeed corrupted, so be sure to try out hybridfan's tip above. If not, I suggest you simply re-rip the stuff. For MP3 you can use Winamp if you bought the Pro version, but there are always open source alternatives such as Exact Audio Copy.

kuy · 13 Sep 2010

Thanks all, in the end I decided that I'll just re-rip the files and take more care in future! Thanks for all the help