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Jay Lamont marked one of Mike M's replies in Songbird as useful. Mike M replied to the problem "Grabbing album artwork with Songbird erases some file metadata in Windows 7".
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Jay Lamont replied on October 24, 2009 21:34 to the problem "Grabbing album artwork with Songbird erases some file metadata in Windows 7" in Songbird:
Ah, I see.
Well as long as there's a way to get the tags back, that's the important thing. -
Jay Lamont replied on October 24, 2009 18:55 to the problem "Grabbing album artwork with Songbird erases some file metadata in Windows 7" in Songbird:
That solution worked. Nice!
Out of curiosity, is there any way to force Songbird to write the tags it updates as 2.3 instead of 2.4? -
Jay Lamont reported a problem in Songbird on October 24, 2009 17:00:
Grabbing album artwork with Songbird erases some file metadata in Windows 7It seems that when I use Songbird to grab album artwork, it is erasing some of the metadata that Windows 7 uses to organize music. Here's an example:
This is a picture of an album in my library with no artwork:
This is the listing of the mp3s in this album in Explorer in Windows 7. You can see the metadata beside the file name:
Now, I select all the songs in the album and select Get Album Artwork. The artwork is added, and the metadata in Songbird is fine...
..but when I go to look at the files in Windows 7 Explorer again, the metadata has disappeared.
Worse still, if I try to add the metadata back manually, I get this error:
This is a pretty annoying bug, because Windows 7 uses the metadata that gets deleted to search music by artist, album etc. right from Explorer.
I'm using the release candidate (build 7100) of Windows 7 64-bit and Version 1.2.0 of Songbird. Any ideas?
