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Posted by whiskers on Apr-21-2003 14:15:

hidden ID3 tags?

you know how sometimes you add a file to your winamp and the info that's shown in the playlist is either badly misspelt or is simply all ugly with alphanumeric characters and in lowercase (yes, i'm anal about filenames )

and no matter what you do with the ID3v1 tag, you can't fix anything, only enabling ID3v2 tag helps. so my question is - what is that hidden tag that contains the misspellt information and how can i get rid of it?

Posted by Nabistai on Apr-21-2003 15:03:

Buy the cd/vinyl, burn it to an mp3, and there you go, no misspelled ID.

Posted by CygnusX on Apr-21-2003 15:31:

Never had this problem.
Where do you get your mp3s?

Posted by Me� on Apr-21-2003 15:46:

Never had this either...

Posted by whiskers on Apr-21-2003 16:11:

quote:
Originally posted by CygnusX
Never had this problem.
Where do you get your mp3s?

they're your usual mp3s, the ones on the hub, the ones people send me... most of the time, these tags are associated with some ripping group, i can't exactly remember which exact groups do this, but there are a few

quote:
Originally posted by Nabistai
Buy the cd/vinyl, burn it to an mp3, and there you go, no misspelled ID.

i prefer to steal from artists and to pirate my mp3s, thank you very much. cds and vinyls are evil.

Posted by sash on Apr-21-2003 16:19:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
i prefer to steal from artists and to pirate my mp3s, thank you very much. cds and vinyls are evil.

laugh!

Posted by nekholm on Apr-21-2003 17:48:

It's happened to me too, dunno why though.. And I think I downloaded them from the hub..

Posted by rory21 on Apr-22-2003 23:12:

maybe they write protected. but really dunno. try renaming them in mp3tagstudio

Posted by allstar on Apr-22-2003 23:14:

happened to me too- no idea why :S

Posted by Mark on Apr-22-2003 23:31:

quote:
Originally posted by djrory
maybe they write protected. but really dunno. try renaming them in mp3tagstudio

you're on the right track. maybe its a read-only mp3 file. using id3v2 actually copies a new mp3 file to your HD and deletes the old one, whereas id3v1 updates it into the current file.

check the file attribute and see if you can fix this.

Posted by elena on Apr-22-2003 23:32:

ah i hate it when that happens. and having the semi anal personality i dont like having mispelled (mispelt?) files. if you have the time and patience just delete and dl another mp3

Posted by arctic on Apr-23-2003 01:05:

haha.

Just edit the tag