Windows Explorer in Windows 7 ruins TXXX frames

Windows Explorer in Windows 7 ruins TXXX frames, warning

dano View Member Profile	Dec 15 2009, 15:35 Post #1
Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 391 Joined: 2-March 04 Member No.: 12414	Just a warning for any one that uses TXXX frames in his ID3v2.3 tags. When you use windows explorer in Windows 7 to change a tag (i.e. change the star rating) it will alter all TXXX frames. The original content is removed and replaced with part of the name of the TXXX

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Fandango View Member Profile	Dec 15 2009, 21:45 Post #2
Group: Members Posts: 1540 Joined: 13-August 03 Member No.: 8353	A reason to switch to ID3v2.4!

grommet View Member Profile	Dec 15 2009, 23:41 Post #3
Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: 1-April 05 From: California Member No.: 21106	QUOTE (Fandango @ Dec 15 2009, 12:45) A reason to switch to ID3v2.4! Which isn't supported at all, so you see no tags at all? Yes, I've reproduced this. It seems through the entire 7 beta, nobody caught this. Oh, well. I haven't looked more deeply at what it's exactly writing, but yes... the custom TXXX frames are damaged if one uses the Explorer UI to manipulate the ID3v2.3 tag.

Alex B View Member Profile	Dec 16 2009, 02:05 Post #4
Group: Members Posts: 1303 Joined: 14-September 05 From: Helsinki, Finland Member No.: 24472	QUOTE (grommet @ Dec 16 2009, 00:41) I haven't looked more deeply at what it's exactly writing... The ruins: -------------------- http://listening-tests.freetzi.com

grommet View Member Profile	Dec 16 2009, 05:30 Post #5
Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: 1-April 05 From: California Member No.: 21106	QUOTE (Alex B @ Dec 15 2009, 17:05) QUOTE (grommet @ Dec 16 2009, 00:41) I haven't looked more deeply at what it's exactly writing... The ruins: That's quite bad. As such, even more amazing nobody caught this before 7's RTM. I guess there wasn't much love for free-form TXXX frames. I can't even imagine what the buggy code is trying to do with those results. Now, how many months/years will it take to get 7's shell fixed? This post has been edited by grommet: Dec 16 2009, 05:31

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dano Windows Explorer in Windows 7 ruins TXXX frames Dec 15 2009, 15:35

Big_Berny Wasn't only the Release Canidiate affected by ... Dec 15 2009, 19:10

Alex B The released Windows 7 does the same. Here is an ... Dec 15 2009, 21:15

Fandango A reason to switch to ID3v2.4! Dec 15 2009, 21:45

grommet QUOTE (Fandango @ Dec 15 2009, 12:45) A r... Dec 15 2009, 23:41

Alex B QUOTE (grommet @ Dec 16 2009, 00:41) I ha... Dec 16 2009, 02:05

grommet QUOTE (Alex B @ Dec 15 2009, 17:05) QUOTE... Dec 16 2009, 05:30

utenteanonimo64 QUOTE (grommet @ Dec 15 2009, 23:41) It s... Feb 10 2010, 15:08

ogg Someone should make sure to post about this on the... Jan 2 2010, 00:04

egd QUOTE (ogg @ Jan 2 2010, 10:04) Someone s... Feb 2 2010, 17:18

Takla QUOTE (egd @ Feb 2 2010, 16:18) Just use ... Feb 2 2010, 21:13

fraganator Or we could try get the bug fixed and not have to ... Feb 2 2010, 17:40

Irakli That's why I set all my audio files as 're... Feb 2 2010, 23:17

Akkurat Only if Windows (or anything else) respects that f... Feb 3 2010, 04:10

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