{"id":734,"date":"2005-05-25T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/FixYourWindowsMediaAlbumInfo.aspx"},"modified":"2005-05-25T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T18:18:27","slug":"fix-your-windows-media-album-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/25\/fix-your-windows-media-album-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix your Windows Media album info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Omar turned me onto <A href=\"http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm\">this fantastic tool<\/A> for quickly and easily fixing the album data in Windows Media.&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm\">Album Art Fixer<\/A> may follow Microsoft&#8217;s not-so-sexy, name-it-what-it-is product title strategy&nbsp;but make no mistake, the product is way cool.&nbsp; It is especially useful for people who are running Windows Media Center edition as MCE uses the &#8220;Album Artist&#8221; field where many tracks only get their &#8220;Aritist&#8221; field set when you RIP (esp. for those of you who insist on sticking to MP3s).&nbsp; It also has a handy interface for getting cover art via a web search (Google by default).&nbsp; <\/P> <P>The process of fixing all your albums is very easy (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm\">Album Art Fixer<\/A> is on version 1.5.2 at this point, the refinements continue).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve ripped over 500 albums to disk so far and fixing them all was completed in one painless sitting last night (it took less than 20min).&nbsp; I won&#8217;t re-hash the instructions on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm\">the Album Art Fixer page<\/A>, their simplicity says it all.&nbsp; I will add, however, that I&#8217;m picky when it comes to making sure my music is correctly labled and filed, so I was aprehensive about letting software do the changing.&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm\">Album Art Fixer<\/A> does, however, allow you to adjust or reject any changes before it changes your media&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metadata\">metadata<\/A>.<\/P> <P>The software is donate-ware, so you can download it and try it out absolutely free (it&#8217;s fully functional).&nbsp; If you like it and use it you should, of course, show your appreciation by donating via PayPal.<\/P> <P>&nbsp;<\/P> <P>You don&#8217;t have to take my word for it, <\/P> <P>Album art fixer recommendation by Omar.<\/P> <P>The album art fixer site: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm\">http:\/\/www.avsoft.nl\/ArtFixer\/default.htm<\/A><\/P> <P>A review here: <A href=\"http:\/\/thomashawk.com\/2005\/01\/album-art-fixer-review-two-thumbs-up.html\">http:\/\/thomashawk.com\/2005\/01\/album-art-fixer-review-two-thumbs-up.html<\/A><\/P> <P>Media Metadata usage guidelines: <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms867702.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/windowsmedia\/techart\/winmedform\/default.aspx?pull=\/library\/en-us\/dnwmt\/html\/wm_metadata_usage.asp?frame=true<\/a><\/P> <P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar turned me onto this fantastic tool for quickly and easily fixing the album data in Windows Media.&nbsp; Album Art Fixer may follow Microsoft&#8217;s not-so-sexy, name-it-what-it-is product title strategy&nbsp;but make no mistake, the product is way cool.&nbsp; 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