Windows Media Player- How to Edit

Sammy58

I have downloaded a lot of music from my CDs onto Windows Media Player. However the Compilation Albums shows up as the album names and various artists. What I trying to do for each song is edit it, so it shows the artist in the arist section and the song title separately. How can this be achieved please.

EssexExile

Complete ignoramus here until someone else turns up - can't you find them in File Explorer (or whatever it's called) & edit them there?

Le_Kirk

I just Right-Click on the part I want to Edit and up comes a list of options, one of which is Edit.

DoaM

Use something like MP3TAG, import your music library into it and then you can easily edit the tags of each track to revise the tracks back to being within the compilations. (When you imported them the utility probably auto-filled the tags from an online database, and used the original album data rather than the compilation album data - tracks on CD tend not to have any tags).

Backbiter

If you right click each file, and select properties, it should bring up a few tabs to select. Choose 'Details', and this should allow you to edit the tags for each track, so you can insert the track name, artist and album title. It does allow copy and pasting so you don't need to keep retyping the artist or album title.

I keep saying 'should', as sometimes the Details tab is not shown, and on other occasions the tags do not appear to be editable.

So it's a bit hit-and -miss, but more hit than miss.