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More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Jazz3215 on February 23, 2011, 09:59:11 pm
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(System-1 WinXP Pro/MC 15) – I lose the tag information (i.e. album, artist, cut name etc.) when I
try to transfer the tune from a usb memory stick to my other computer hard drive-(System-2 Win7/MC15).
I doubt that the difference in operating system software would matter.
The only thing that I thought that might be a problem is that the original source file path would be
different and possibly cause this situation after the transfer. I thought that the tags are stored within
the music file, so I thought that it would still be there even if I copy it to another disk location?
Is there anyone that has a solution of what I can do to correct this?
Thanks, Alan
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Welcome to Interact.
You may consider enabling WAV tagging, or else moving the files inside Media Center.
More on WAV tagging:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/WAV_%26_AIFF_Tagging
You might also find this interesting:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Lossless_Compression
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Thanks Matt - I already did enable WAV & AIFF tagging today on both systems.
I'm going to try again what you were saying in transferring the files to the USB memory stick
through MC15 (I'm pretty sure I did do that but I will give another go tomorrow morning).
I want to compile my music on my desktop then transfer using the USB stick to the Acer computer
for my convenience.
As far as using a lossless type of file instead. I set up a Acer netbook that streams music through its optical
output to a separate Burr-Brown V-Dac unit which connects to my high-end preamp/amp system. I'm more
interested in having my music played back at the highest quality possible by using the uncompressed Wave format.
Disk space is not an issue anymore since I can use huge gigabyte or terabyte hard drives in this music server.
Compressed music to me is great when you're using a portable type player.
I let you know how it goes sometime tomorrow.
Alan