The music is retrieved and played using playlists – album or original container agnostic. At one end of the spectrum, a person who puts all of the music files into a single folder. This led to some interesting discussions with our kids, who are very into music and have opinions about its storage. I sometimes get this when I accidentally select an album cover (.jpg) with music (.mp3). Selecting multiple files and entering properties only shows you the common fields. ![]() If you don’t see options for artists, title, album name, etc., you may have a mixture of file types. Now you can change the fields (like Album name) that apply to all the files. Right click, choose properties, and select the Details tab. Drop into a folder of MP3s – this will not work with all sound files – and select an albums-worth to edit their metadata. You can actually do a lot of metadata management at the file level. So to start, I did a bit of the work by hand. But if you right click on an album in Windows Media Player, the resulting search was not always able to find a match. It reappeared after a bit (or I learned how to resurface it) which was handy. ![]() When Windows 10 came out, Windows Media Player disappeared for a bit in favor of Groove. Here are some of the tools I’ve been using to get things straightened out. Even when it comes from a ripped disc, you get the sense that music publishers aren’t spending a lot of time on metadata. One thing you notice after accessing enough media: the metadata isn’t always great. I have been working on a side project: clean up years-worth of accumulated digital music.
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