Comments on: Advanced tag editor gone from Windows Media Player 11

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:08:40 +0000

Note that small video files are not added to the library by default so you will not see them in Media Player unless you reduce the size threshold.

By: Southhill101

Southhill101 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:19:53 +0000

If your rip settings in WMP options are set to lossless WAV you won’t have access to the tags and then iTunes won’t import properly as the names are all messed up like albumnameartisttrack or something like that. Even if you use windows converter, the filenames/track numbers won’t be correct. RIP as Windows Media Audio and things work correctly.

By: EddieW

EddieW — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:56:40 +0000

Very helpful — Thanks! I deleted the pointers from Windows Media, then edited the properties of the files using Windows Explorer. When I dragged them back into Windows Media, the new tags are there.

It’s stupid as hell that MS removed this from Media Player, but it’s not the first (or unfortunately the last) boneheaded thing they’ve done…..

By: yushis

yushis — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:13:04 +0000

The Advanced Tag Editor is available in WMP11 (XP and Vista), however, it has been removed from WMP 12.

In Win7, if you were using the Advanced Tag Editor for bulk editing, it is possible to edit the metadata of multiple files in Explorer; it’s also possible in WMP by selecting the content in the Library and choosing edit from the context menu on any column you would like to edit.

The Zune software seems to have more extensible metadata editing than WMP11. But the WMP 11 Advanced Tag Editor could see and edit tags that Zune does not.

Hope it is useful.

By: anteo

anteo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:22:16 +0000

(I meant Vista OS)

By: anteo

anteo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:17:37 +0000

Editing audio tags are already supported by filesystem. Simply open explorer in folder where you keep audiofiles, select Properties and edit any of them! Also you can edit multiple files at once.

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:04:16 +0000

Does anyone know why WMP11 does not change the tags of the files (e.g. artitst or album) of the songs in their original files. They are changed in the library but these attributes are not changed in the file, and when I copy the to somewhere else tags are not changed.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:44:15 +0000

From another help site: uncheck the read only attributes for the file and advance tag editor will reappear

By: Free XBOX 360 Elite

Free XBOX 360 Elite — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:45:34 +0000

Sort by individual song then right click and you should see advanced tag editor

By: Jharna

Jharna — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:52:49 +0000

yeah……I’ve noticed that the advanced tag editor has disappeared. It’s hell! I was wondering how to edit tags in WMP11. Does anyone know if microsoft is going to update it??? if not…i’m going back to WMP10….any help is appreciated!