disabling automatic tag

Hika-Chan · 22nd October 2012, 10:37

Hi!
maybe this question been asked previously... I found nothing
Winamp keeps changing my MP3 tags, so now I've got mixed titles (for example if I have song A by artist 1, song B by artist 2, song C by artist 3, one of them becomes song B by artist 1...)

Can someone tell me how to resolve this. I don't want my songs to be renamed automatically.

Thanks in advance!

Aminifu · 23rd October 2012, 17:44

Hi,

Go to the General Preferences - Media Library - Local Media - Watch Folders options. If you have added folders, selected each one and use the "Edit selected" button to bring up the dialog that lets you disable Winamp's attempts to correct your tags.

Also select the "Configure" button at the bottom in the "Metadata Reading Settings" section to likewise disable Winamp's attempts to correct your tags.

MrSinatra · 23rd October 2012, 18:29

huh?

winamp does NO "automatic" tag corrections via watch folders. autotag happens ONLY if MANUALLY initiated by the user.

those options in watch folders are for how winamp READS tags, nothing more.

if the tags are changing, its likely WMP, itunes, or some other app doing it.

Sabine Klare · 24th October 2012, 23:02

Fortunately I don't have the very invasive iTunes, which loves to move files to new directories without asking the user.
Maybe it was the "iLike Sidebar" (for Windows Media Player & iTunes), maybe it was the Windows Media Player itself. I have my important files in 6 other folders on the desktop of my Workstation PC, but my folder "Upload Files" with our music as MP3 in 128 kbps is in Username > Music. Suddenly some tags in some files had been changed, and I had to change back the tags manually within Winamp, because of the listings in the Media Library. I didn't really know, how it had happened, but I had also blamed Traktor Pro.
I had already uninstalled the "iLike Sidebar" some weeks ago, after it has become useless, because the internet-platform "iLike", where I had also claimed my artist-page "Sabine Klare Aka Sternenmaschinebine", has disappeared from the internet this year. The message "This website is not available anymore" comes by clicking on old links with "iLike".
I don't believe, Winamp itself would change tags automatically (if I'm not wrong), but I should keep my eyes open for my podcast-folders in Username > Music, where the very boring Windows Media Player has also access...

Greetings from Sabine Klare Aka Sternenmaschinebine

22nd October 2012, 10:37	#1
Hika-Chan Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 1	disabling automatic tag Hi! maybe this question been asked previously... I found nothing Winamp keeps changing my MP3 tags, so now I've got mixed titles (for example if I have song A by artist 1, song B by artist 2, song C by artist 3, one of them becomes song B by artist 1...) Can someone tell me how to resolve this. I don't want my songs to be renamed automatically. Thanks in advance!

23rd October 2012, 17:44	#2
Aminifu Forum King Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 4,775	Hi, Go to the General Preferences - Media Library - Local Media - Watch Folders options. If you have added folders, selected each one and use the "Edit selected" button to bring up the dialog that lets you disable Winamp's attempts to correct your tags. Also select the "Configure" button at the bottom in the "Metadata Reading Settings" section to likewise disable Winamp's attempts to correct your tags. Winamp Pro v5.666.3516 fully-patched - Quinto Black CT v3.1 skin Windows 10 Home 64-bit v20H2 desktop - Logitech Z906 5.1 speaker system

23rd October 2012, 18:29	#3
MrSinatra Forum King Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: WKPS, State College Posts: 5,735	huh? winamp does NO "automatic" tag corrections via watch folders. autotag happens ONLY if MANUALLY initiated by the user. those options in watch folders are for how winamp READS tags, nothing more. if the tags are changing, its likely WMP, itunes, or some other app doing it. PENN STATE Radio or http://www.LION-Radio.org/ -- BUG #1 = Winamp skips short tracks Wish #1 = Multiple Column Sorting Wish #2 = Add TCMP/Compilation editing

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24th October 2012, 23:02	#4
Sabine Klare Forum Queen Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 2,492	Fortunately I don't have the very invasive iTunes, which loves to move files to new directories without asking the user. Maybe it was the "iLike Sidebar" (for Windows Media Player & iTunes), maybe it was the Windows Media Player itself. I have my important files in 6 other folders on the desktop of my Workstation PC, but my folder "Upload Files" with our music as MP3 in 128 kbps is in Username > Music. Suddenly some tags in some files had been changed, and I had to change back the tags manually within Winamp, because of the listings in the Media Library. I didn't really know, how it had happened, but I had also blamed Traktor Pro. I had already uninstalled the "iLike Sidebar" some weeks ago, after it has become useless, because the internet-platform "iLike", where I had also claimed my artist-page "Sabine Klare Aka Sternenmaschinebine", has disappeared from the internet this year. The message "This website is not available anymore" comes by clicking on old links with "iLike". I don't believe, Winamp itself would change tags automatically (if I'm not wrong), but I should keep my eyes open for my podcast-folders in Username > Music, where the very boring Windows Media Player has also access... Greetings from Sabine Klare Aka Sternenmaschinebine