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Grabbing album artwork with Songbird erases some file metadata in Windows 7
It 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?
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?
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Inappropriate?This is caused by Songbird writing ID3v2.4 tags into the files when you update the artwork. Windows explorer & media player don't fully support this. If you want it fixed you will have to get Microsoft to do it. If you just want to make your files work, you can use a tool like Mp3tag to rewrite the tags as ID3v2.3, which Windows can read.
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Inappropriate?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?
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This solves the problem
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No, there's currently no way to do this. I believe it is a limitation of the tag library Songbird uses. -
Inappropriate?Ah, I see.
Well as long as there's a way to get the tags back, that's the important thing.
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