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[saviourseph]

 Decided to get rid of iTunes in favour of a music player that isn't huge, bloated, slow and ugly. Finally settled on the Zune software (seriously, when did Microsoft start making nice software? First Windows 7, then IE9 which I would consider using if it had extensions, now this... I'm shocked) as it's both snappy and OMG pretty (see?). HOWEVER, when I moved my music out of the nest of iTunes folders all hell broke loose... half my tags seemed to vanish into the ether, along with a tonne of album art (I thought iTunes embedded that in the file?) and now my music collection is, to put it lightly, a great big fucking mess. So I'm taking this opportunity to clear out some of the stuff I never listen to and tag the stuff I actually do properly (yes, even genres).

...this is going to take a while.

*stares despondently at the "Fucked up music" folder on his desktop*

Comments

[alkazar.livejournal.com]

The reason for it? The way Zune recognizes tags and the way iTunes recognizes tags are two entirely different formats. The issue itself actually lies in the Zune software, as I recall, as when I was using Zune (back while having a Zune 120gb) I had everything tagged and properly ordered via Zune, but when I loaded up MP3s in anything else, a lot of the information was missing (particularly with Winamp).

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

According to Mp3Tag the files that got detagged have problems (they're saying Bad ID3) - I think it's more a case of iTunes being more forgiving than Zune.