This may be a frequently asked question but ID tags annoy me to death.
Everytime I use Windows Media Player it takes a song which ID3 tags I remove
and adds a tag with nothing in it... in other words, any other place I use
the song, I get a blank artist and song name... very annoying

can this tagging thing be turned off altogether in WMP?

thanks in advance

RJB

In WMP, go to:
Tools -> Options -> Library
Uncheck "retrieve additional information from the internet"

This will prevent WMP from getting info and adding tags to your files.


"Recruiter J. Bahamas" wrote:
> This may be a frequently asked question but ID tags annoy me to death.
> Everytime I use Windows Media Player it takes a song which ID3 tags I remove
> and adds a tag with nothing in it... in other words, any other place I use
> the song, I get a blank artist and song name... very annoying
>
> can this tagging thing be turned off altogether in WMP?

>

I checked that, and that's already unchecked... any other ideas?

thanks

RJB

"Dan Corban" <DanCorban@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In WMP, go to:
> Tools -> Options -> Library
> Uncheck "retrieve additional information from the internet"
>
> This will prevent WMP from getting info and adding tags to your files.
>
>
> "Recruiter J. Bahamas" wrote:
>> This may be a frequently asked question but ID tags annoy me to death.
>> Everytime I use Windows Media Player it takes a song which ID3 tags I
>> remove
>> and adds a tag with nothing in it... in other words, any other place I
>> use
>> the song, I get a blank artist and song name... very annoying
>>
>> can this tagging thing be turned off altogether in WMP?
>
>>

Recruiter J. Bahamas wrote:
> I checked that, and that's already unchecked... any other ideas?

Well make sure you have offline backups: in my experience, when you
suffer this bug, files get deleted as well while WMP tries to rearrange
them based on the empty tags.

I'm not sure what you mean... My problem is this. I use Winamp now. I want
to start using WMP. I strip the ID3 tags from all my songs so that the
artist and name appears by file name. But when I play them in WMP it adds a
tag anyway. A blank one. Then when I put them in my car MP3 player, the
songs that I've played in WMP don't have any info on the LCD screen -
because of the blank tag that gets tacked on

does this make more sense?

I've checked and the "download information from the internet" is UNCHECKED

please Help!!!

RJB


"Mike Williams" <mikew@m-v-p-s.org.null> wrote in message
news:43B393D5.7010701@m-v-p-s.org.null...
> Recruiter J. Bahamas wrote:
>> I checked that, and that's already unchecked... any other ideas?
>
> Well make sure you have offline backups: in my experience, when you suffer
> this bug, files get deleted as well while WMP tries to rearrange them
> based on the empty tags.

It sounds like WMP won't allow you not to have ID3 tags in the file. It
sounds like it should be fundamentally superior for your scenario for the
file to have ID3 tags.

Sounds like if you need to NOT have ID3 tags, you'll have to mark them as
read-only after stripping them.

-Zach
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"Recruiter J. Bahamas" <recruiter@bahamas.none> wrote in message
news:uRuw2tbDGHA.2040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I'm not sure what you mean... My problem is this. I use Winamp now. I want
> to start using WMP. I strip the ID3 tags from all my songs so that the
> artist and name appears by file name. But when I play them in WMP it adds
> a tag anyway. A blank one. Then when I put them in my car MP3 player, the
> songs that I've played in WMP don't have any info on the LCD screen -
> because of the blank tag that gets tacked on
>
> does this make more sense?
>
> I've checked and the "download information from the internet" is UNCHECKED
>
> please Help!!!
>
> RJB
>
>
> "Mike Williams" <mikew@m-v-p-s.org.null> wrote in message
> news:43B393D5.7010701@m-v-p-s.org.null...
>> Recruiter J. Bahamas wrote:
>>> I checked that, and that's already unchecked... any other ideas?
>>
>> Well make sure you have offline backups: in my experience, when you
>> suffer this bug, files get deleted as well while WMP tries to rearrange
>> them based on the empty tags.
>
>