Is there a way to make Winamp read your WMA tags to make it's tags?

thebrew85 · 4th January 2004, 00:29

All the names and albums, and everything are screwed up because of Winamps way of acquiring information about the tracks. Is there any sort of way to make it just use or copy the data that is in their WMA tag directories?

4th January 2004, 02:48

Due to restrictions from Microsoft on the WMA format Winamp cannot read WMA tag information. It is highly recommended that you encode your music in the more open MP3 format or Ogg Vorbis and avoid WMA at all costs.

wmjordan · 5th January 2004, 04:11

I used to encode my music in WMA.

But after a run of spectrum analyses with CoolEdit Pro, I no longer use WMA any more. With 80Kb/s bitrate, all signal higher than 10KHz has been brutely trimmed! So, treble in WMA sucks. Ogg should be a better choice, if you wanna shrink the file size. For higher bitrates, it is said that MPC (MusePack?) is the best, among lossy codecs.

amano · 5th January 2004, 12:19

you should be right:

use mp3 for overall compatibillity
ogg vorbis for low bitrates
mpc for high bitrates
or aac for good overall quality

Alltaken · 5th January 2004, 15:00

and FLAC for prfect quality

4th January 2004, 00:29	#1
thebrew85 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1	Is there a way to make Winamp read your WMA tags to make it's tags? All the names and albums, and everything are screwed up because of Winamps way of acquiring information about the tracks. Is there any sort of way to make it just use or copy the data that is in their WMA tag directories?

5th January 2004, 12:19	#4
amano Major Dude Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: where the llamas come from! Posts: 951	you should be right: use mp3 for overall compatibillity ogg vorbis for low bitrates mpc for high bitrates or aac for good overall quality eeeee eeeeeee eeeee eeeee eeeee 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 88 8eee8 8e 8 8 8eee8 8e 8 8 8 88 8 88 8 8 88 8 88 8 8 8 88 8 88 8 8 88 8 88 8 8eee8

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4th January 2004, 02:48	#2
Sawg Guest Posts: n/a	Due to restrictions from Microsoft on the WMA format Winamp cannot read WMA tag information. It is highly recommended that you encode your music in the more open MP3 format or Ogg Vorbis and avoid WMA at all costs.

5th January 2004, 04:11	#3
wmjordan Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Five-Star Country - China Posts: 48	I used to encode my music in WMA. But after a run of spectrum analyses with CoolEdit Pro, I no longer use WMA any more. With 80Kb/s bitrate, all signal higher than 10KHz has been brutely trimmed! So, treble in WMA sucks. Ogg should be a better choice, if you wanna shrink the file size. For higher bitrates, it is said that MPC (MusePack?) is the best, among lossy codecs.

5th January 2004, 15:00	#5
Alltaken Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Zealand Posts: 215	and FLAC for prfect quality