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Windows Media Player Problem

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I have been having a specific problem with Windows Media Player for several years now. I am so frustrated by this stupid issue.

The album information for certain songs is always wrong. I edit the song information in any way possible. By going to the folder and right-clicking, going to Properties, Details, and then changing the info. By going to the library in WMP and changing the info there. By searching for the album info through WMP and then selecting the right one.

I do this for just one song, and then suddenly several other songs appear on that album with it. These are not songs that I burned from the same CD, some are, but some I downloaded online or burned from other CDs. Yet somehow it sees them as connected and puts them on the same album, changing the name of the song, artist, and album for each one to something they are not.

The wrong information shows each time I play the song and anytime I try to change anything about these songs the same thing happens...about 10 other songs all change to the new album I entered. This has happened since 2004, on at least three different versions of WMP, on 4 different computers to which the songs have been transferred. On the current version there is a feature where you can choose to erase all previous properties about a song, which I tried. And as soon as I enter the new info, the same thing happens. I feel so frustrated by this.

Has anyone else experienced this? WHY is it happening? These songs should not be connected in any way. I don't want to have to delete all these songs. I have lived with it for several years but now I'm just too pissed about it. :mad:
 
editting the MP3 tags with through Windows Explorer isn't always the best - sometimes the tags don't hold.

I'd suggest a dedicated tag editor. I use one call MP3Tag (www.mp3tag.de but there is and English version) but there are lots out there and probably some that are even better.

Programs like MP3Tag will allow you to edit tags en masse or indivdidually but quickly.
 
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