Any way to remove album art from individual files?
Prophet5590
fwiw). It plays WMA files fine, unless the file has album art in it, then
it chokes. I've got a directory with 80's music on it, and some files
play, some don't. When I try the same files (from the same CD), the ones
that fail invariably display album art, even though there are no images on
the CD.
I cannot find any way to remove the album art from the files. Opening the
advanced-edit in the properties will let me change a lot of things (artist,
etc) but there is nothing for art. I cannot find any options in the wmp9
media library either.
Can anyone help? I would have to have to re-rip all of these files.
Thanks-
Brad
zachd [ms]
If the player can't seem to strip that out, you might want to try MusicMatch
Jukebox or other player that edits WMA files...
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"Prophet5590" <proph...@excite.n0sp4m.com> wrote in message
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Prophet5590
It doesn't display the art that is there, and, even if I add new art
(different) in MMJB, windows media player 9 still finds/shows the old
one. And MMJB shows the new one. I guess both art files are in there now.
The filesize definitely grew.
I have made sure I was not connected to the net, so I know it isn't
downloading on-the-fly, and it isn't a file in the directory, hidden or
otherwise. I copied the .wma file from the CD on a non-connected machine
to do these tests.
Ah well... Panasonic hasn't replied with any information about an update
to their player either. I guess I will have to re-rip, and be sure to
disable the 'find album info' before starting. Or... read up on the file
format, and write a stripping program myself. I'm not sure which would
be easier at this point <g>
"zachd [ms]" <za...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
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zachd [ms]
:) If you point me to a file that has this problem, I'll look and see what
the easiest way to strip this out is.
-Zach
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"Prophet5590" <proph...@excite.n0sp4m.com> wrote in message
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Prophet5590
Okay, I'm a bit embarassed now... I had not seen/tried the 'Advanced Tag
Editor' in WMP9. I was using the 'Properties' from the context menu in
explorer, but hadn't tried using WMP9 directly. I can remove everything
there.
Unfortunately, removing the album art didn't fix the problem. I've
looked at files that work, and those that don't, and I don't see anything
that seems consistent. Files that play have the same tags filled in
(artist, composer, track, year etc.) as ones that don't. I still think
there is some relationship between ones where album info was found online
originally, and where it wasn't, because the ones that are still failing
were the ones that had album art at one point, but I can't see any thing
that seems to make a difference. I've looked for extended characters,
I've checked to see if some are 'protected', but there doesn't appear to
be anything I can do.
One thing I have noticed -- even when I've stripped out every tag from a
.wma file using the advanced tag editor in wmp9, the file size doesn't
get any smaller. If it is removing 'pointers' without removing the data
(like a file delete on FAT32) that might be my problem, but I can't be
certain what it's doing.
As far as pointing you to a file... I'm not sure how/where I could do
that. I don't think binaries are allowed in this news group, and the
files are copyrighted. If you can suggest some way to get one to you, I
can do it. Email maybe?
Brad
"zachd [ms]" <za...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
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zachd [ms]
What version of the player are you running? Certain WMA files created with
the beta v9 player won't play in older slightly-buggy devices. Files
created by v9 proper should work fine.
Given what you've said, you'd need a utility to strip out the metadata on
the WMA file(s) entirely. I'm unaware of such at this time.
-Zach
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