I am using MP3tag to clean up some files on my Windows 7 computer. Here's the issue: I cleaned up one MP3 file, and the cleanup included changing the artist name. When I look at the file in MP3tag, everything looks just like it should. However, when I use Windows Explorer, I see a column entitled 'C…

Thanks for the replies. Based on that which was written, I did a little for searching and found the MP3tag View->Extended tags. Here, I saw ‘Contributing Artist’, was able to edit it, and the info showed up properly in Windows Explorer. However, I am wondering if there is a ‘bug’ in Windows or MP3t…

Se whether you have APE tags in the files and whether you update them with MP3tag.

You can have a look at this thread as well, with the same issues addressed. [image] Metadata only in Groove Music, not in MP3 or Win Explorer Support A quick search of Google would suggest to me that many others have similar issues using Groove and trying to manage the met…

Windows Explorer isn't really built around metadata for music files. But you will find that many different music library managers, players, and even mp3tag have slightly different "friendly" naming conventions for the tag fields - but they are all mapped to the same field. So this isn't a bug in Win…

[image] groston: I also suspect that the mp3 files in question may have be damaged or corrupted, in some sense, because of some other strangeness. Check out this post for hints also on how to check files for integrity: [image] Hints for asking Support Requests Support …

A tad confused - Windows Explorer does not show contributing artist

Support

MotleyG February 27, 2023, 5:49pm 3

You can have a look at this thread as well, with the same issues addressed.