Transfer album infor to new computer

I just got a new computer and transfered my mp3s to it, but WMP 10 does not
recognize the album information i previously entered. I spent hours updating
the info on my old computer.

How do i upload the album info to my new computer

Both computers running WindowsXP and Windows media Player10

j-man wrote:
> I just got a new computer and transfered my mp3s to it, but WMP 10 does not
> recognize the album information i previously entered. I spent hours updating
> the info on my old computer.
>
> How do i upload the album info to my new computer
>
> Both computers running WindowsXP and Windows media Player10
>

It's possible that WMP didn't write out the information you entered to
the files. There's no real way of discovering that in WMP: you have to
inspect each file. It definitely won't do it if your files are
read-only, but other times, well it just fails...or the 3rd possibility
is that WMP downloaded information from the net and overwrote what you
typed in. I trust you have a backup.

Almost all the mucis iare mp3's i created from my CD's a few years ago. The
are not copy protected and none of the information is downloaded from the net.

Is there a setting that needs to be on before WMP actually changes the info
on the Song?


"Mike Williams" wrote:

> j-man wrote:
> > I just got a new computer and transfered my mp3s to it, but WMP 10 does not
> > recognize the album information i previously entered. I spent hours updating
> > the info on my old computer.
> >
> > How do i upload the album info to my new computer
> >
> > Both computers running WindowsXP and Windows media Player10
> >
>
> It's possible that WMP didn't write out the information you entered to
> the files. There's no real way of discovering that in WMP: you have to
> inspect each file. It definitely won't do it if your files are
> read-only, but other times, well it just fails...or the 3rd possibility
> is that WMP downloaded information from the net and overwrote what you
> typed in. I trust you have a backup.
>

j-man wrote:
> Almost all the mucis iare mp3's i created from my CD's a few years ago. The
> are not copy protected and none of the information is downloaded from the net.
>
> Is there a setting that needs to be on before WMP actually changes the info
> on the Song?

Theoretically you have to have the LIbrary update options on (See the
options dialog) but I and others have experienced these changes with
those options off.

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:27:02 -0800, "j-man"
<j-man@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I just got a new computer and transfered my mp3s to it, but WMP 10 does not
>recognize the album information i previously entered. I spent hours updating
>the info on my old computer.
>
>How do i upload the album info to my new computer
>
>Both computers running WindowsXP and Windows media Player10

It could be worth investigating the XP files and settings transfer
wizard, there's a useful article about it here :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...bott_fstw.mspx

HTH
Cheers - Neil