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Windows Media Player Tagging and Explorer Error
- HiI am using Windows 7 RC 32-bit version. I am getting an error while trying to edit tags for my MP3 files on explorer. this is the error message:"An unexpected error is keeping you from applying properties to the file.if you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.
Error 0x8007000D: the data is invalid. "However I can always use 3rd party applications to tag my files. BUT I notice some of the random properties like "Contributing artist" or "Publisher" or some other properties are missing. Its funny but I have an album from Nirvana that only 3 of the songs from that album have this problem! (The others are tagged properly and are editable) Or like James Blunt, only 5 of them had this problem. The tagging application couldn't write tags for some properties of these files.However, When I open these songs in Windows Media Player, they do NOT have any tags associated to them and are categorized as UNKOWN or they are not playable. But I can use Winamp and no problem!I noticed some of the forumers had the same problem but for the 64-bit version. Some say there are update patches for 32-bit version but could not find any!Please help. I'm getting disappointed on Windows 7! I like everything but this one is really annoying!Thank you
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- I've been having the exact same problem farzan and think I've found a fix. It seems that for some reason, the id3 tags on some mp3s are corrupted so that windows explorer and w. media player can't read/write them (though most other programs I've tried can just fine).
Solution is to remove the tags completely and then re-add them.
I've used mp3tag to remove the tags (open music folder, select the borked files, right click and then "remove tag"), then just retag using whatever you've been using before (musicbrainz picard for me). Explorer and wmp should now pick the tags up and you should be able to edit tags in explorer!
Probably worth making sure your filenames and folders are in order before detagging everything otherwise it'll be a nightmare to retag :P
Hope this works for you and helps anyone else who stumbles across this from google! I am hopeful for your solution because when I disabled the ID3v2 tag, it worked perfectly fine (files only left with ID3v1 tag) but since I just needed the ID3v2 tag to be there (have more info on the mp3 files) I still looked for work around which I never found! (I wish I had tried your solution too)
I already gave up on the albums that had this problem and deleted them cause it was annoying me :D... I will try your solution if next time I face this problem. If it works for you. should possibly work for me and others. Thank you- To all Googlers out there who arrive here in search for a quick answer to this problem much like I did, here's what I did out of the advice found here (for which I'm very grateful, I must say):
1) Installed mp3tag, as suggested, and opened it;
2) Brought up my Music library
3) Chose Arrange by: Song* so that all my songs would be shown in one list (even those contained in folders) in detailed visualization
3) Typed "*.mp3" in the search box right over the arrange by option so that only mp3 files would show up in the list (excluding album covers etc.)
4) Scrolled all the way down till songs with no tags started appearing
5) Selected all these files and carried them over to the mp3tag window
6) Selected all the files in mp3tag and right-clicked them
7) Clicked Cut Tags, chose Yes and waited
8) Repeated step 6 and clicked Paste Tags.
And that worked just fine. Windows 7 started playing nice with all the songs it didn't use to.
In case you're worried about steps 7 and 8, you should know that you're safe if you cut the tags and then paste them over the exact same songs without resorting the list. (Actually, I didn't try resorting before pasting to see what happens, but I'm pretty sure that that's something we should avoid doing. I'm guessing mp3tag pastes the first set of tags in the clipboard to the first song in the list, the second set of tags to the second song in the list and so on.) If you're still unsure, try cutting one song's tags and pasting them over the song itself, then test it with two songs and when you're confident enought select all songs, cut tags and then paste.
By the way, there might be another way (probably easier and less of a hack) that I'm not aware of, but that's what I could come up with in the rush of fixing this annoying problem quick so I can go to bed sooner (gotta be up in like 5 hours). Well, enough of chitchat. Hope I helped someone out there.
And thanks again to will.d! :D
*I'm not sure as to if you're going to find that exact word under the menu, 'cause I'm using Windows 7 in portuguese, which is my first language.- Proposed As Answer byTheCutie Friday, October 30, 2009 9:59 AM
- Edited byPhillipe Marcell Monday, September 28, 2009 8:42 AMAdded information
- Thanks a lot!!!!! You saved me a whole lot of hassle!
- I received the same error and a real simple solution: Right click Library -> Tools -> Options -> and unclick "Retrieve additional information from the Internet" and save. Everything I edited saved without seeing that error. Hope this helps! :-)
