![]() ![]() The music is retrieved and played using playlists – album or original container agnostic. At one end of the spectrum, a person who puts all of the music files into a single folder. This led to some interesting discussions with our kids, who are very into music and have opinions about its storage. I sometimes get this when I accidentally select an album cover (.jpg) with music (.mp3). Selecting multiple files and entering properties only shows you the common fields. If you don’t see options for artists, title, album name, etc., you may have a mixture of file types. Now you can change the fields (like Album name) that apply to all the files. Right click, choose properties, and select the Details tab. Drop into a folder of MP3s – this will not work with all sound files – and select an albums-worth to edit their metadata. ![]() You can actually do a lot of metadata management at the file level. So to start, I did a bit of the work by hand. But if you right click on an album in Windows Media Player, the resulting search was not always able to find a match. It reappeared after a bit (or I learned how to resurface it) which was handy. When Windows 10 came out, Windows Media Player disappeared for a bit in favor of Groove. Here are some of the tools I’ve been using to get things straightened out. Even when it comes from a ripped disc, you get the sense that music publishers aren’t spending a lot of time on metadata. One thing you notice after accessing enough media: the metadata isn’t always great. I have been working on a side project: clean up years-worth of accumulated digital music. ![]()
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