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    For xmas I got a Zune (expected) and a $50 gift certificait to the Zune music store (unexpected). I hadn't been planning on buying anything DRM'ed, but I couldn't use the money for anything else so said what the heck and bought a bunch of songs.

    Recently, I've decided to strip the DRM by burning and ripping from a CD. I stuck all the music I'd bought in a playlist and burned that list to 3 CD's. I re-ripped the music, dragged the (now untagged) files to where the old files were, and renamed them. Then in the Zune software I had it grab the metadata online. Except - it still somehow thought all the music on each CD was part of the same album. So when it DL'ed the info for one song, it would assume all the other songs that had been on that CD too and would rename them (improperly, of course, because they came from completely different artists and albums). No matter what I do it still seemed to remember in its gut that the tracks are linked. If I edit the tags so that a song is in a different album, then ask Zune to DL the info for that album, it updates all the other songs as well (wrongly) and puts them together again. Frustration. I restored from a backup of my library.

    I came up with a plan to foil this idiocy. I went to another computer, running a different OS (XP) using a different media player (WMP11, though Zune is really a skin of WMP11), and ripped the CD's to that computer. I then copied all the files into directories on an external drive, which mirrored the arrangement of the files on my computer. I manually renamed and entered basic tag info for each file (track #, song name, album name, artist name). I then plugged the external HD into the original computer and copied the files over. No way could this mysterious link survive a file copy - not file move - onto a separate HD, then onto another computer. I was wrong it still somehow knows that some files are linked and if I DL info for one, it chucks all the rest into an album with it.

    How do I defeat this menace?

  • #2
    Just plug in the information manually.

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    • #3
      The tags may have fields that you can't see when manually editing them. Try stripping the files of tags completely, and manually tagging them after you copy them over.

      I use Tag&Rename to manage my 200GB music collection.
      THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
      AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
      AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
      DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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      • #4
        Tag & Rename. The only way to go.
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #5
          Originally posted by LordShiva
          The tags may have fields that you can't see when manually editing them. Try stripping the files of tags completely, and manually tagging them after you copy them over.

          I use Tag&Rename to manage my 200GB music collection.
          lol 200gb LOL

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          • #6
            Re: windows is trying to read my mind and failing

            Originally posted by Kuciwalker
            For xmas I got a Zune (expected) and a $50 gift certificait to the Zune music store (unexpected).
            Poor bastard.
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            • #7
              If I expected someone to get me a Zune, I would smack them around a bit to dissuade them.
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