Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

[Tom Swaman]

Why will some flac files in an album that plays music apparently properly not permit tags to be edited.

Thanks for the assistance,

Tom Swaman

[Spoon]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Perhaps the files are read only, or have security settings set to no write.

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Spoon,

This drivea me crazy as the album plays and most of the files in the album can be readily edited. The files are not read only as I have checked for this. Do you have any suggestions as to what I might do so that I can edit these and not get that window popping up which I copied into my original thread post.

Happy New Year and thank you very much,

Tom Swaman

[Dat Ei]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Could you please change the file extension to .flac for a test?


Dat Ei

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Dat Ei,

I do not understand your comment as all of my music files have the extension of ".flac".

Regards,

Tom Swaman

[Dat Ei]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

The screen shot shows the extension .fla.


Dat Ei

[Spoon]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

The short path name is shown in the error message, the real file will be .flac

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Thanks Spoon. I just wish I knew why I am not able to edit these files. I simply cannot find anything wrong with the files and I do not know what I am missing.

Tom Swaman

[Dat Ei]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Is it possible that these files are locked by different application? Did you open those files shortly before you have tried to edit them? Did you try to edit those files after a reboot of your system?


Dat Ei

[Tom Swaman]

Re: Flac files will not allow tag editing, why?

Dat Ei,

No is the answer to your question. However, I believe the locking mechanism may be an excessively long path length which blocks editing in Windows. I do not wish to state for certain as of yet, but I am leaning in this direction and I have made some major advances in my editing.

Thanks,

Tom Swaman