Bizarre behaviour

>Terry Pinnell wrote:

>> I've been working with a lot of MP3 files today from various sources,
>> all single tracks. Some of them are acting very oddly. I'm displaying
>> all of them in a Windows folder, with columns for Filename, Artist,
>> Title, Year, etc. Most don't have an Artist tag so I r-click and add
>> one. But just a small minority do not *display* this in the window.
>> It's present in the Artist box when I examine its properties again -
>> but not in the folder column! Same with other tags.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what's happening here please?
>>

>
>Possibly corrupt or compressed headers in the file. Windows doesn't
>handle them well. You can try opening the files in Winamp and editing
>the tags there.

> Mike Williams <mikew@m-v-p-s.org.null> wrote:
>

>> Terry Pinnell wrote:

>>> I've been working with a lot of MP3 files today from various sources,
>>> all single tracks. Some of them are acting very oddly. I'm displaying
>>> all of them in a Windows folder, with columns for Filename, Artist,
>>> Title, Year, etc. Most don't have an Artist tag so I r-click and add
>>> one. But just a small minority do not *display* this in the window.
>>> It's present in the Artist box when I examine its properties again -
>>> but not in the folder column! Same with other tags.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any idea what's happening here please?
>>>

>> Possibly corrupt or compressed headers in the file. Windows doesn't
>> handle them well. You can try opening the files in Winamp and editing
>> the tags there.

>
> Thanks. The tags look fine in MediaMonkey, my usual player/organiser,
> but just refuse to appear in Windows.
>