Windows 7 RC build 7100 and mp3 metadata

[Leonick]

Anyone else have any problems with Windows 7 RC messing upp their metadata?

If I look at a mp3 file in the explorer I can see some things like album an such missing on some of them trying to fill this information in gives a 0x8007000D error saying The data is invalid... Neither WMP or iTunes see the metadata, WMP recognize the file and i can edit the values but they will soon jump back to their old empty ones but iTunes wont even accept the files in to it's library...

Thing is these same mp3 files, originally copied from my stationary computer which is having this problem is also on my laptop running vista home premium where they work perfectly, copying them back to the stationery wont solve the problem the same values end up empty again... what's going on? Quite afraid this will start happening on the laptop too once i get Windows 7 on it :s

Anyone know whats going on and how I can solve it?

[+John Teacake MVC]

Theres a known bug with Metadata and Windows 7. I dont know which build it was fixed in. Someone else posted something similar and a MS Employee picked up on it on these forums. Hope that Helps.

[Preppy Veteran]

Are you up to date on Windows Update? The patch for that was released previous to the RC being actually publicly "available" if I recall correctly.

[guruparan]

That bug was fixed by Microsoft long back, and it was sent via Windows update to the machine it is installed :-)

That bug is not there in the RTM (or the release) version of Windows 7, so you can safely get windows 7 for your laptop :)

[Leonick]

Yea, i hear about the bug before installing the RC but that is some tme back and i have all updates available on Windows Update

[Subject Delta]

The bug was fixed with a hotfix for Beta 1, there's probably some other issue at play here

[Leonick]

OK, i just got the idea to boot into my old vista install... in vista all metadata that is missing in 7 shows up

[Leonick]

No one have any suggestions?? I recently reinstalled the RC, havn't got around to getting the real thing yet, the problem still persists

[Leonick]

I solved it, so I am posting in case anyone else get's the same problem...

Of some reason Windows 7 (and wmp12) do not like ID3 tags of the version 2.4 so just get some mp3 tag software like ID3-TagIt and change the version to 2.3...

Now, why Vista and wmp11 supports 2.4 is strange... not to speak of the fact that the same album could have mixed tags, wmp11 is what ripped them all to begin with