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Title: Winows Home Server 2011 --- Possible tagging problem
Post by: JimH on November 13, 2011, 07:09:42 am

I'm not certain this is true, but it may be important to read if you're using Windows Home Server 2011.  It is said to be replacing metadata (tags and cover art).

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1372591

Title: Re: Winows Home Server 2011 --- Possible tagging problem
Post by: Ventoux on November 14, 2011, 11:44:36 am

Jim,

This IS an issue with WHS2011. As discussed:

http://www.wegotserved.com/2011/08/05/stop-windows-home-server-2011-overwriting-album-art-mp3-tags/ (http://www.wegotserved.com/2011/08/05/stop-windows-home-server-2011-overwriting-album-art-mp3-tags/)

http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2503-music-share-bug/ (http://homeservershow.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2503-music-share-bug/)

http://gcoupe.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/yet-more-problems-with-the-media-library-in-whs-2011/ (http://gcoupe.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/yet-more-problems-with-the-media-library-in-whs-2011/)

M$ Connect Thread:

https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/feedback/details/675352/music-albumart-tags-get-overwritten-stop-please (https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/feedback/details/675352/music-albumart-tags-get-overwritten-stop-please)

Title: Re: Winows Home Server 2011 --- Possible tagging problem
Post by: Alex B on November 14, 2011, 12:34:03 pm

I wonder if WHS 2011 also has the same ID3v2.3 and v2.4 tagging bugs and compatibility problems that existed in Windows 7 and WMP12 when Windows 7 was released (I have not tested if MS has fixed anything since then). Here's a thread and my post at Hydrogen Audio from December 2009: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=76998&view=findpost&p=673637

Title: Re: Winows Home Server 2011 --- Possible tagging problem
Post by: Alex B on November 14, 2011, 12:39:40 pm

Here is a quote from that HA thread (by "utenteanonimo64"):

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Because of a bug in the WMP12 library (both Beta and RC), such library had to be rebuilt from scratch every time you opened WMP12. Microsoft should have realised that, with such a bug, nobody would be seriously testing WMP12 in the Beta and in the RC so they should have immediately fixed the library problem to allow testing of the other WMP12 features. Instead they chose to carry the library bug until it was finally (sort of) fixed in the RTM. At that point people finally started using WMP12 and found another million bugs!
WMP12 is a case study for software development mismanagement: from design decisions to code quality, from build cycles to interaction with the underlying OS. Anything that you can do wrong in a software project they have done it wrong. Seriously I think someone could write a book on this saga.

 :)

Fortunately we don't need to use WMP.

Title: Re: Winows Home Server 2011 --- Possible tagging problem
Post by: lhwidget on November 14, 2011, 05:52:34 pm

Wow, I read the article linked above on We Got Served.  It's hard to believe Microsoft went so far with such an invasive service.  I guess I'm used to the weird problems Windows (and I) can create, but my data is mine & mine alone. 

This really is mind boggling...

Until I ask a program to do something to my data, I don't expect my data change, ever...