Originally Posted by
Dave P
Ive come here looking for ways round this sort of problem. In my case I have a lot of .wma files copied to my drive by Mediaplayer. Some were not found in the data base and titles had to be entered by hand - tediously! Some were identified by a data base, and I presume this is why there is a 'thumbs.db' file with the tracks inside the album folder.
I am currently using Roxio software to burn audio cds. They play on stereo etc, but even though the Roxio software tells me they contain cd text, Media player and W. Explorer can only see untitled tracks on these discs. To confuse the picture I have discovered that if I select to burn an enhanced audio cd and copy the thumbs.db file to the data section I can sometimes get a disc on which Mediaplayer and Explorer can see track titles. I can reload these discs into my media library as long as I manually create an album folder, in an artist folder, in My Music. At other times I can't finish the burn because the .db file doesnt copy.
The thing is, I really want to conserve this information. The reason I'm burning lots of discs at the moment is partly to back up my collection - a big thing right now as I very nearly had to have the machine wiped last week after catching "double pneumonia with full complications". The prospect of sitting in front of a new installation of windows with thousands of untitled tracks to reenter is terrifying.
I'm planning to give the poweramp software a try anyway, but having found this thread I have to ask " Do you have a way to produce discs bearing track info which can be generally read, at least by Explorer?"