I'm trying to tag some MP3's with the latest MP3 Tag Studio, and one track keeps giving me problems. It keeps saying that it can't create the ID3 file (the track didn't have one at all to start with).

So I open the song in Winamp. It plays fine. I open up it's file info and try changing the ID3 tag from there. It works. I add the track title to the ID3 1 and 2 fields, and then I close Winamp and go back to Tag Studio. I try writing the artist field, but it still says "Unable to write ID3 tag to file!" What's going on?

Here's my other, much less related question that I've been wondering for years: when I open a help file for a program, and go to the search tab, the first time it'll give that stuff about the search database. What is the difference between the minimize and maximize?

I'll bet the file has some garbage in it that's not a valid tag. This is confusing MP3 tag studio. Open the file un UltraEdit and look for nonstandard, non-tag garbage.

Alternatively, open and save-as the file in MP3Trim to see if that fixes it.

Here's the thing:

I downloaded some live concerts of a website, and there's 15 tracks in both of them. So I fix the file names for the first concert with track numbers, and batch tag the track number a title fields with Tag Studio, and it got everything except for the last song. The rest had no problem. The last wouldn't let me write anything to it. I then try the second concert, doing the exact same thing, and the exact same thing happened. 15 songs, the first 14 were fine, the last one wouldn't let me write anything to it. Could this be a bug? I'll try doing it with more folders.

*edit*
okay, I tried it a third time, and the exact same thing happened.

You wouldn't happen to have the files locked open in another application would you?

I've encountered this a number of times. It usually seems to happen when MP3TS tries to write the tag when Explorer is showing its ``preview'' (which also often prevents one from renaming the file within Explorer itself -- POS!).

Anyway, when this happens, the only way I've found to fix it is to exit MP3TS, copy the file, delete the original, make sure that Explorer isn't previewing anything, and then try again. Sometimes I still have to tell it to delete the entire tag first before it'll work right.

I don't know what MP3TS's problem is, but even after making sure that nothing, including Explorer, has a handle on the file, and after closing and restarting MP3TS, it still fails to be able to change the file. But it can change that exact copy. It must be caching something somewhere.

Edit: Oh, and it's not specific to the new MP3TS.

Good call. I was gonna mention that.

Disable that explorer preview feature, kill all HTML-in-explorer features. Slows your system down anyway.

I don't have it previewing anything. This happens when the folder isn't even open, and the files have never been played. It appears to be something with my setup and the batch tag import function. It just has a problem with the last file. I would delete the tag info, but it says there isn't any at all, and Winamp agrees in each instance. Oh well, I did all the tag entering in Winamp for those files, and I guess it won't happen to me again for a while, as I don't do this often.

Try this: http://www.differentpla.net/~roger/tips/2kwebvwmedia.html

Cripes, I just delete every HTT file off of my hard disk.