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I have track numbers in front of some of my song names (not title) in my music libarary. How do I get rid of them. They are not in the "name" in WMP. I try to right click and rename and that doesn't work. I try going through properties into details and delete numbers in front of name, but it doesn't stay changed. Tried to edit in WMP and that doesn't work. Nothing I do permenantly changes the name (not title).
Help!!!!!!
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Take a deep breath...
It sounds like you lost the Playlists, not the music. That was the idea of clearing the AppData.
Um, when you say "title", I am assuming you mean the Title tag on the files. Music files can have many Tags. the "Title" is a Tag. If the File had a Title Tag when it was moved, it should still have a Title tag. So, when opened or used by WMP, it should show a Title as well as a Filename.
I hope I beat Ric this time... ;)
By the way, I am running WMP 12 on a Windows 7 computer, so if Ric needs any Win 7 specific info, just rattle my cage.
The mysterious E: drive is a creation of WMP to help it keep track of what it is doing when it is Ripping music. It is like making a list to go to the store. WMP stores bits and pieces of file information in that E: drive space to speed up the process. We mere Users are not expected to even know it is there.
When you say you backed up with separate filenames, on my end I am thinking, of course you did, because there is no other way. All files need unique filenames or Windoze gets really confused.
So, did you make different Folders?
Too much information, but these files were ripped as .WAV files, they should still have Album and Title tags. They can be sorted by Album and by Artist in WMP. That may make it easier to restore your Playlists. But I fear that you need to do that manually.
Just so I can get a clear picture, how did you check the contents of your C:\Users\Username\Documents file?
Did you use Windows Explorer?
Would you like to know how use Windows Explorer to instantly sort out all the music files from everything else?
No! I am not talking about songs. In my computer, under music i opened files to catagorize my music......ie: 60,s music, 70,s and 80,s music, country etc. That way when i wanted to copy music to flash, i had music in types files. When i moved these files to documents.....they were still under their appropriate files. Somewhere i lost file name ie: country, 80,s etc. My music is all run together in alpha. This included my videos. So........i had backed these files onto a flash stick....thank god.....and my question is: can i somehow copy these files into my windows music library? In docs now i have over 5000 songs all in alpha order.
OH HAPPY DAY!!!!! I just went into documents, right click, restore defaults and i got them back. I am happy....oh so happy.
