I like mp3tag and I use it to edit music metadata. I can see full metadata of my music in mp3tag but if I use windows explorer, little metatdata is shown. If I check Properties of a song, the Details tab is almost empty, which should be filled with album, year, etc. that I added through mp3tag. A…

It seems we have same Windows problem. My experience in some FLAC files from DG. It has very very long Title or/and very long Artist, it also has 1280 x 1280 cover art imbedded. The Flac tags displayed normally by Mp3tags and FB2000. But some fields no shown both in Windows Explorer and WMP. After…

What kind of files are we talking about? MP3? FLAC? MP4? What kind of tags are in the files? only Id3Vx or also APE? Do you happen to use ID3V2.4 tags? Which tag versions do you read, write and delete?

All my music is flac. How do I check metadata format? Probably that's the problem. Which metadata format is better? Thanks!

OK. FLAC has only vorbis comments. But see this thread on flac support in windows: [image] Windows10 FLAC support Tag invisible Support I used MP3TAG several years for my FLAC music tag editing, the FLAC files played by WMP with some plug-ins in Win7 & Win8.1 without any …

Thanks! You found this issue in 2015 and windows hasn't resolved it yet...

Hi rwolf, Did you tried re-convert your FLAC according to my suggestion? How is that work? Windows 10 did fixed it's FLAC display issues 2 years ago, although not perfect. Following is only my guess, advise needed. Your Windows issues might just WMP display coverage limitation. It does need furthe…

It works perfectly! I really appreciate it! By the way, which flac level do you choose when you convert flac to flac? And which level does windows media player choose when ripping CD?

Hi rwoft, congratulations! As my understanding, different flac level basic no effect to the sound quality, only file size to store and CPU usage to code/decode. So I just let it default. Reconvert flac to flac, most converter only re-write tag information according to information you specified to …

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ohrenkino April 20, 2019, 11:19am 4

OK. FLAC has only vorbis comments.
But see this thread on flac support in windows: