get meta data

I like the way songbird does the modify meta data, but when i modify it I look on the drive for the song and then I look at its meta data, and it hasnt changed. more specifically I find the file right click it select properties go to the "summary" tab under those fields nothing seems to change.

or does it take time before songbird will save it?

I have the same problem... no answers for a year????

I modify metadata in Songbird but nothing gets saved in the actual file !!!!

Just wasted HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G'day,

PVH may just have missed the response (it can happen). Firstly, how are you checking the metadata? Its worth noting that Songbird stores metadata using ID3 2.4, whilst many programs only support older versions. It may be that the metadata is being stored, but the program you are using doesn't support version 2.4. Many Windows XP explorer extensions apparently don't support 2.4.

You can confirm if the metadata is being stored, by using profile manager to create a second profile in Songbird, and checking if the metadata persists (because Songbird should be able to read its tags). Maybe check with MP3's first.

Now, its also worth mentioning that Ogg metadata writing was disabled in 1.2, because some people found it caused corruption, however, if you use 1.4.x, both Ogg and M4A should work. Wav's will probably never store the ID3 tags, because there is no standard way of doing so apparently! M4P files I don't think support writing, and FLAC's/MP3 support should just work.

Also, check the permissions of the files. In windows 7/Vista, especially during a clean upgrade, its very easy to have read-only media files, and it may not be as simple as unchecking the "read only" attribute box (you need to check the access control lists, which is messy and painful, but exists under the security tab of the directory). Unfortunately, this is a bit difficult to explain, but fortunately, this "problem", for most people is quite rare.

Finally, whilst unlikely, you may have set a preference to disallow metadata writing. To check this, go to file, open location, about:config, songbird.metadata.enableWriting should be true.

Hopefully this helps. Let me know if it doesn't.