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I had an old Camel record that I wanted to be able to hear on my computer and MP3 player. However, I didn't have a turntable that I could use to convert it to a digital file. Looking around on the Internet turned up a decently-sized, high-quality rip, but it was in WV format.
I didn't have any way of playing WV files, so I looked some more, and I found dBpoweramp Music Converter. I installed it, and it let me convert the WV files to MP3s, but I got a very unwelcome surprise - my audio metadata completely disappeared! I could still view the metadata for other files, like pictures and videos, but audio data - whether for MP3s, FLACs, OGGs, or WAVs, was gone. Or, rather, invisible; artists, albums, and titles would still show up in my various players, but attempting to view them through Windows Explorer gave me the error message, "Details are unavailable for the selected files." This goes beyond tags and such, which Windows has never recognized in formats like FLAC; it literally doesn't display anything, not even attributes like file size and type.
Is there any way to fix this? I know for certain that dBpoweramp is the cause, because this only happened after I installed it, and posts elsewhere on the Internet seem to corroborate this. I tried dBpoweramp-Reset.exe after uninstalling the program, but it didn't solve the problem. The way that things are going, I might just have to reinstall Windows, and that's the last thing that I want to do.
I didn't have any way of playing WV files, so I looked some more, and I found dBpoweramp Music Converter. I installed it, and it let me convert the WV files to MP3s, but I got a very unwelcome surprise - my audio metadata completely disappeared! I could still view the metadata for other files, like pictures and videos, but audio data - whether for MP3s, FLACs, OGGs, or WAVs, was gone. Or, rather, invisible; artists, albums, and titles would still show up in my various players, but attempting to view them through Windows Explorer gave me the error message, "Details are unavailable for the selected files." This goes beyond tags and such, which Windows has never recognized in formats like FLAC; it literally doesn't display anything, not even attributes like file size and type.
Is there any way to fix this? I know for certain that dBpoweramp is the cause, because this only happened after I installed it, and posts elsewhere on the Internet seem to corroborate this. I tried dBpoweramp-Reset.exe after uninstalling the program, but it didn't solve the problem. The way that things are going, I might just have to reinstall Windows, and that's the last thing that I want to do.
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