Why's my old school winamp broke?
December 27, 2006 11:34 PM Subscribe
My winamp (v2.95) has just started to do something strange; it's creating id3 tags on it's own!
For the last few days I've noticed that some mp3's in winamp are now appearing in this format: " - Artist - Title" compared to the previous (and desired) "Artist - Title"
None of my mp3's have(..or had) id3 tags.
But I noted that these files with the weird naming are files that have an id3 tag, and removed the tags and just thought that I had missed them in the first place...until it started constantly happening, and then I realized that *as soon* as a song is played, the id3 tag is generatated, and then the song takes on the annoying " - Artist - Title" format.
What's causing this? I searched through the options for winamp and found nothing that would suggest to this, I also haven't changed any options myself and have been using this same version of winamp for months.
For the last few days I've noticed that some mp3's in winamp are now appearing in this format: " - Artist - Title" compared to the previous (and desired) "Artist - Title"
None of my mp3's have(..or had) id3 tags.
But I noted that these files with the weird naming are files that have an id3 tag, and removed the tags and just thought that I had missed them in the first place...until it started constantly happening, and then I realized that *as soon* as a song is played, the id3 tag is generatated, and then the song takes on the annoying " - Artist - Title" format.
What's causing this? I searched through the options for winamp and found nothing that would suggest to this, I also haven't changed any options myself and have been using this same version of winamp for months.
Sounds like what you really should be asking is "How do I make WinAMP display metadata in my prefered format". There should be a setting somewhere that lets you specify what's displayed; metadata is your friend.
I just tried installing it to see where it is, but WinAmp crashed on startup. I'm sure it's there somewhere though, it'll probably be something like "%tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%" or so. Adjust to taste.
posted by Freaky at 7:53 AM on December 28, 2006
I just tried installing it to see where it is, but WinAmp crashed on startup. I'm sure it's there somewhere though, it'll probably be something like "%tracknumber% - %artist% - %title%" or so. Adjust to taste.
posted by Freaky at 7:53 AM on December 28, 2006
I don't know why you're using an ancient version of Winamp -- 5.2x is the latest, and it's no heavier in terms of CPU usage or memory footprint, if you use the classic skins, than the older versions.
Settings for display guessing with id3/filenames in the playlist are found (in this version at least) by going Right-click --> Options --> Preferences --> Media Library/Local Media --> Watch Folders Tab --> Metada Reading Settings --> Configure
To change the way in which the playlist displays metadata (again in my version) go to Options --> Preferences --> General Preferences/Titles. You can edit format strings and set further preferences there.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:36 PM on December 28, 2006
Settings for display guessing with id3/filenames in the playlist are found (in this version at least) by going Right-click --> Options --> Preferences --> Media Library/Local Media --> Watch Folders Tab --> Metada Reading Settings --> Configure
To change the way in which the playlist displays metadata (again in my version) go to Options --> Preferences --> General Preferences/Titles. You can edit format strings and set further preferences there.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:36 PM on December 28, 2006
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posted by SilverTail at 12:59 AM on December 28, 2006