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.

utenteanonimo64 View Member Profile	Feb 10 2010, 15:08 Post #4
Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 13-January 10 Member No.: 77077	QUOTE (grommet @ Dec 15 2009, 23:41) It seems through the entire 7 beta, nobody caught this. Because of a bug in the WMP12 library (both Beta and RC), such library had to be rebuilt from scratch every time you opened WMP12. Microsoft should have realised that, with such a bug, nobody would be seriously testing WMP12 in the Beta and in the RC so they should have immediately fixed the library problem to allow testing of the other WMP12 features. Instead they chose to carry the library bug until it was finally (sort of) fixed in the RTM. At that point people finally started using WMP12 and found another million bugs! WMP12 is a case study for software development mismanagement: from design decisions to code quality, from build cycles to interaction with the underlying OS. Anything that you can do wrong in a software project they have done it wrong. Seriously I think someone could write a book on this saga. This post has been edited by utenteanonimo64: Feb 10 2010, 15:10

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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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