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Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Anyone else having this issue? At first I thought it was just the program I was using but even dbpoweramp is doing it now. Seems to be a problem with Flac 1.5? Metadata shows in players like Foobar etc. but not in file explorer. This isnt the case for every track/album. But it is happening for a few of them. I am a huge newbie to all of this.

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

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Sounds about right to me. Thanks :)

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

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I followed the instructions and renamed the .wav entry to ._wav

Should I also rename the .flac entry to ._flac?

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

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Problem Solved. Thank you so much!

p.s. You are a Godsend. Even Wav files will properly display foreign characters in metadata now. Been trying to figure that out forever. Thanks again!

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I hope this is proper etiquette to ask this on here after so many days have passed by but I wanted to go off of my last post. I was able to clear up my problem with tags not showing in file explorer by following Spoons instructions. And because of that I was able to get WAV files to also display foreign characters properly instead of question marks (which has always been an issue for me until now). My problem is that it only works if I encode to WAV using other programs. When I encode to WAV using dbpoweramp, it gives me the question marks. Any other program Ive used so far with display any character properly. Can I fix this?

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

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What happens if you retag a couple of them with Mp3tag?
Drag into the Mp3tag window, highlight, Ctrl-x to cut away all tags, Ctrl-v to paste them back - then they will be pasted in Mp3tag's preferred format. Or Ctrl-x to cut, Ctrl-z to undo - even that will paste back in Mp3tag's preferred format, so it isn't a true "undo".
Warning: a power outage just between Ctrl-x and Ctrl-v, and the tags are gone forever. Back up first if you need.

And:
Obligatory nagging about why to use .wav at all, when you can convert to a better format. (If you need .wav metadata to be preserved - to get them back precisely the same after decoding - then use WavPack. Yes there is a way to do that with flac too, but ...)

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

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Wow re tagging actually does work! Dunno why I didnt think of that.
And to answer your question, Id just prefer to use Wav if I could.
Thanks for the reply, your suggestion solved the issue!
 

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

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Wave tagging is limited, dBpoweramp will write LIST chunk tags, which are non-unicode (??? for non-ansi characters), and it also writes an ID3 chunk which dBpoweramp and other programs can read correctly, but not all programs can.