Indigo
2010-02-01 17:35:05 UTC
I've spent hours and hours googling for an answer to this problem with no
joy, so I'm making my first post here hoping to get some straight answers
(if I should be posting this in another NG, please tell me the name of a
more appropriate forum).
I have an Insignia Pilot MP3 player, and for some reason WMP11 (in Vista)
refused to recognize the device, so I had to manually edit playlists using
notepad, then load them onto the player. About a month ago, my machine (HP
TouchSmart I775) totally froze while installing an update, and after days of
trying to recover from the disaster I gave up and had to start from scratch,
reformat C: drive, reinstall Vista, then reinstall the dozens upon dozens of
apps I'd gathered over the last 3+ years.
Two weeks ago, I got around to reinstalling WinAmp, loaded my music
directories into it's library, and then to my utter horror discovered that
all of the MP3 tag info had disappeared from view when using Explorer.exe to
navigate within my MP3 directories! Even worse, no application will let me
write new tag info to the MP3's, or rather after updating the tags no
changes are seen in the explorer window. If I click on a specific file and
look at the "details", everything is blank, and I cannot edit any of the
details like I used to be able to do. I removed WinAmp from my system, but
whatever it did seems to be permanent.
I am running as admin, the files are not write protected, and I am at wit's
end trying to figure out how to get explorer to show the tag info again.
WinAmp and WMP11 could read the tag info, and so can a couple tag editors I
downloaded in attempts to fix the problem, so I know the data is still
there, but I cannot get explorer to display anything but the filename,
filesize, type, and date modified. THIS SUCKS!
Can anyone help me out?
joy, so I'm making my first post here hoping to get some straight answers
(if I should be posting this in another NG, please tell me the name of a
more appropriate forum).
I have an Insignia Pilot MP3 player, and for some reason WMP11 (in Vista)
refused to recognize the device, so I had to manually edit playlists using
notepad, then load them onto the player. About a month ago, my machine (HP
TouchSmart I775) totally froze while installing an update, and after days of
trying to recover from the disaster I gave up and had to start from scratch,
reformat C: drive, reinstall Vista, then reinstall the dozens upon dozens of
apps I'd gathered over the last 3+ years.
Two weeks ago, I got around to reinstalling WinAmp, loaded my music
directories into it's library, and then to my utter horror discovered that
all of the MP3 tag info had disappeared from view when using Explorer.exe to
navigate within my MP3 directories! Even worse, no application will let me
write new tag info to the MP3's, or rather after updating the tags no
changes are seen in the explorer window. If I click on a specific file and
look at the "details", everything is blank, and I cannot edit any of the
details like I used to be able to do. I removed WinAmp from my system, but
whatever it did seems to be permanent.
I am running as admin, the files are not write protected, and I am at wit's
end trying to figure out how to get explorer to show the tag info again.
WinAmp and WMP11 could read the tag info, and so can a couple tag editors I
downloaded in attempts to fix the problem, so I know the data is still
there, but I cannot get explorer to display anything but the filename,
filesize, type, and date modified. THIS SUCKS!
Can anyone help me out?