Editing mp3 tag data in WMP doesn't change actual mp3 file?

[pennylane]

I'm trying to edit mp3 tag data (adding album artist data for sharing purposes) in windows media player. If I do it from media player, I can edit the data and WMP detects the change (which it should), but the actual mp3 file does not seem to be affected. If I load up the mp3 into foobar, it's like I didn't make any changes at all.

Likewise, if I edit the file in foobar, the change doesn't show up in WMP.

I'd like to change the file and see the change in WMP. Is there a way to do this?

 

[fager]

Try MP3Tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
this should work on both applications.

 

[abaez]

WMP has it's own library database I believe. You'll have to right click on the file and edit the tags in the properties there, or get an external program (I used tag & rename).

 

[Aluvus]

What are you changing, specifically? It's possible the behavior you're seeing is actually Foobar's fault.

Foobar does some slightly "idiosyncratic" things when it reads tags, which cause its behavior to be different from other programs. It doesn't use the same frame for Album Artist that other programs do, and it seems to handle files with both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags differently from some programs.

 

[pennylane]

Yeah it seems like WMP has its own database.

The other issue I was having is that apparently the field that WMP looks at for "album artist" is actually "band" (or so it seems). So when I was editing the tags in foobar, I was editing "album artist" when I should have created a new field "band." I'm still not sure exactly what's going on but it appears to be working right now.

Seems like it's best to edit in an external mp3 tagger (and to add both "album artist" and "band" fields) so the tags work in both foobar and wmp.

Thanks.

 

[TheFamilyMan]

I use MediaMonkey...you have lots of tagging options and one of those is to apply the tagging to the file directly; you can choose idv2, idv3, both, etc.

One other thing...when you auto-tag you have the option of including verbiage from album reviews, band histories, etc. This way, as the file plays, it will scroll information about the band as the music plays.