ID3 tags won't stay changed!?

Eric Irwin ecirwin at mac.com
Tue Jul 1 16:52:36 PDT 2003


On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 09:22  AM, iTunesList wrote:

>    I have an interesting problem. There are a handful of MP3s I have
> that simply do NOT want to let their tag info stay changed. Whenever I
> change any of the info (artist name, song name, album, artwork,
> etc...), it appears to work fine (all the info updates visibly in
> iTunes). HOWEVER, the next time I try to play the song, all the info
> reverts back to the original ID3 tags. Highly frustrating, to say the
> least! The dog munched the CD, so re-ripping isn't really an option
> (and I didn't much like the soundtrack, so I am not inclined to
> spending $18 on it again).
>     I'd be very interested in hearing any and all theories, no matter
> how looney!!  =;-)

I am not sure if this will help, but you might try updating the ID3 
tags to the latest rev.  I have heard of some odd things happening with 
older versions of ID3 tags.  It is under the Advanced menu option and 
is the last menu item in the list.  It is worth a shot anyway.

Eric



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