Windows Explorer in Windows 7 ruins TXXX frames, warning Options

[dano]

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

[ogg]

Someone should make sure to post about this on the official Windows 7 developer forums. Microsoft employees read those forums and usually the people responsible for that area of Windows will join the dicussion and work to get the problem fixed.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...tegory/w7itpro/

This post has been edited by ogg: Jan 2 2010, 00:05

[egd]

Someone should make sure to post about this on the official Windows 7 developer forums. Microsoft employees read those forums and usually the people responsible for that area of Windows will join the dicussion and work to get the problem fixed.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...tegory/w7itpro/

Just use mp3tag, or switch to Linux

[Takla]

Just use mp3tag, or switch to Linux

Or don't switch to Windows

Actually it is a valid concern is for people who dual boot Windows and any other OS, or who connect their portable device to a variety of different systems to add/manage/sync media. If you have spent considerable accumulated time and care in tagging your audio using an OS (or a good 3rd party tagger on MS) that doesn't have this issue then becoming aware of it by accident could be a very unhappy event indeed....and possibly aggravated if you have a great deal of cover art named as folder.jpg as that will all get unceremoniously mangled as well if you let WMP loose on your files.

This post has been edited by Takla: Feb 2 2010, 21:14