Losing WAV Tags

[rusty]

To elaborate, this seems to be related to WMP. For more info see:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/asp ... gs-in.aspx

We're looking into getting this resolved in MM for 3.1.

-Rusty

[Claud Reich]

I have what seems to me to be the same problem. Recently (last few months, possibly after an update?), I found that when I edit tags on a wav in MediaMonkey, for some wavs the changes don't persist. I can reproduce this with a particular CD I recently ripped -- I rip it in MM, info from freedb writes the tags, I select the songs, edit the tags to add the year (it's an obscure artist), and the change won't "take". (This problem can also arise when I've edited a wav in another application, I cite this particular situation because it's a MM-only scenario.) Is this something you're currently investigating? Would emailing wavs to someone be of any help? MM is my preferred music librarian, precisely because it allows me to manage my music without putting the info into a proprietary database or other external file, so this problem kind of strikes to the heart of what I love about MM.

[HoveBloke]

For my part it is possible it is WMP 11 not MM. It is installed and I used to use it occasionally. I can't remember now whether the corrupted files were ripped by WMP, I guess they could have been. WMP certainly tags WAVs incorrectly as far as MM and my Sonos kit are concerned so I now avoid it.

[Claud Reich]

If it's any help, here's a sample of one way (may or may not be *the* way) that the tagging affected the wav I was trying to retag to add the year.

Tags, at end of file, freshly ripped:

LIST’ INFOINAM Cowboys in Africa IART Bush Tetras IPRD Boom in the Night ISFT MediaMonkey 3.0.6 IAAR Bush Tetras itrk 1 IRVA -100

Tags, at end of file, after tagging to add Year:

LIST  INFOINAM Cowboys in Africa IART Bush Tetras IPRD Boom in the Night ISFT MediaMonkey 3.0.6 IAAR Bush Tetras itrk 1 ICRD 1995 IRVA -100 LIST  INFOINAM Cowboys in Africa IART Bush Tetras IPRD Boom in the Night ISFT MediaMonkey 3.0.6 IAAR Bush Tetras itrk 1 ICRD 1995 IRVA -100 LIST6 INFOINAM Cowboys in Africa itrk 1 IRVA -100

Or I could give you the hex, if you like...

[Peke]

If that is right (I guess it is) there is a bug somewhere. Investigating thx.

[Claud Reich]

If there's any data/testing I can do to help, let me know.

[Peke]

Sent mail with instructions.

[apb]

Not sure if this is related but I had a similar problem. It turns out I was using EAC to generate the wav files and I had the option to automatically generate m3u files turned on. It looked like MM was using the data from the m3u files rather the tags and would ignore changes to the tags that were made by hand. I moved all the auto generated m3u files out of folders that contained the music files and the problem went away.

[Teknojnky]

you can change that behavior at @ tools > options > library > infer track properties

[chrisjj]

If that is right (I guess it is) there is a bug somewhere. Investigating thx.

Any result, Peke?