Wished I could enjoy WMP11...

[McoreD]

I was wondering if any of you could confirm these issues with WMP11 or any previous version.

Here are my major problems with WMP incl v11. The music library database doesn't always reflect the file tag information. For example when you make a change in the library you are not assured that the tag change was done in the file itself because next time u format the change wont be there most likely. i was sick of this.

When u change the artist/album names the files don't get moved accordingly. sometimes it works. sometimes it doesn't.

It also seems to rewrite the mp3 id3 header for Track Count with null value. When I play a song in WMP11 and later play it in iTunes, I have noticed more than couple of times the Track Count tag is gone for that song.

I also wished the Library database could be relocated to Documents\Music folder.

[kennylog]

I can't really help with the issues but I can advise you to use foobar2000 or musikcube instead, and for tags I use mp3tag

all freeware

[Preppy Veteran]

It'll update the tags if it can. It does it in a background queue because I'm not really sure you want to wait for each tag to update. You can use WMP's Tools:Apply Media Information option to cause the queued tag updates to be flushed to the files.

If it's not writing tags out either:

* You didn't wait long enough and may have shut down WMP in the middle of updating the tags

* The file wasn't writable

* WMP couldn't write tags to that file (or your app is reading a different tag set - ID3 v2.4 is kind of interesting and dumb)

[McoreD]

Using Mp3Tag to extract tag info from file name. :)

Thanks Zach for addressing the Tagging issue.

Are you aware of the issue WMP11 rewriting the Track Count tag?

[McoreD]

Hi All/zachd,

I am using the latest 11.0.5721.5145 version and this has been an on going problem. I can confirm the Track Count issue. WMP11 clears Track Count on a regular basis (I think while it is monitoring folders).

I have the music added to WMP11 using a Read-Only Network share so it does not have access to do anything. However one album was still added with Local file path reference. That very album lost its Track Count tags.

[Preppy Veteran]

I'm lightly confused because I'm not aware of a "Track Count" field - Are you talking about the TRCK field/header going from X/Y to X?

[McoreD]

zach,

Exactly.

TRCK

The 'Track number/Position in set' frame is a numeric string

containing the order number of the audio-file on its original

recording. This MAY be extended with a "/" character and a numeric

string containing the total number of tracks/elements on the original

recording. E.g. "4/9".

For this instance, it will go from 4/9 to 4. I have this happening for all the tracks that WMP11 has write access.