Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience | Dan

zian
Exploding heads since 1988

#Oct 29th, 2008 @ 2:37 AM

I have this problem a lot too.

Even when I go through Windows Media Player's "Find Album Details", the metadata and album cover often don't even make it into the library, never mind the actual folder and media files themselves.

Markweee

Jason is the Program Manager responsible for syncronization of Personal Information Manager (PIM) data between new windows certified portable devices and PC applications. Jason has come to Windows after working with PIM data on Exchange Server.

Online Science Degree AND Criminal Justice school

someone

Dear shell team, I refuse to upgrade ever until you fix ALL of these issues:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproperf/thread/0e55ded6-6b12-4b2d-9714-902ebd562813

JamieLaing

I'm here, with a great heaviness in my heart, to tell you that Windows 7 WMP completely trashed my 1.5 TB MP3 library. I started it up, pointing it to a network watch folder and saw it doing some good things, organizing my library and gathering additonal info on incompletel files. Unfortunately I left it running overnight, and found extensive destruction to my file names and tags. Specifically, WMP took tracks from a single album and renamed them the wrong names. The file names were changed and the metadata was changed, usually creating duplicates, and oddly often duplicating odd numbered tracks. So what once were tracks 1 through 8 for example, often became duplicates of tracks 3, 5, and 7.

Fortunately, the folder structures were not renamed and as far as I can tell the files were not moved to album folders of the wrong name, so I think I can write some software to get out of this mess. My folder structure goes "Artist/Album", so I am hoping I can inspect those folder names, then gather the track lengths and compare against the actual tracks in the album and put things back.