Titles of songs do not appear in Windows Explorer after ripping

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LughF said:

I have used Windows Media Player for ripping my CD into MP3, all titles and authors of the songs have been found in Windows Media Player. This is the great part. However, some titles and authors do not appear in Windows Explorer …

Please post a screenshot of the columns you show in WMP & state which column is the problem.
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Then right-click on the track and select Open file location then check you have that column set to display in File explorer and post a screenshot of it.


I suggest that you crop the screenshots before posting or they'll be too big for anything to be read.

Perhaps the problem will turn out to be that you have not set that column to be displayed in File explorer.

LughF said:

… and do not also appear in other external players.

That's a separate problem. I suggest you sort out the first problem first. I will not be able to help with the second issue because I naver use other players.

Best of luck,
Denis

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Lugh,

In File explorer,
right-click on any column header [such as Name],
click on More …
set the checkboxes next to Titre & Interprete,
click on OK.

It should now appear in File explorer for you.

You can also use the folder you have just used for this test as a template for all your Music folders.
In File explorer,
select the View menu,
Options,
View tab,
Folder views - Apply to folders.

Oh, hold on.

I've had to look in each diagram separately because they were too big to read at the same time.
[I had been looking at Composer because that's what I thought was the 'Author' you wanted. I think the WMP English equivalent of Interprete is 'Contributing artists' or possibly 'Album artist'.]

I can now see that Titre & Interprete appear in WMP but not in File explorer. Unless the CD has only just been ripped and WMP has not been closed afterwards then I do not know what might be causing that problem.

Sorry,
Denis

Lugh,

When I ripped CDs, I always found it best to just get the ripping done then close WMP and sort out Titles, Artists etc in File explorer. WMP would show the amended values when it was re-opened.

I don't have any notes about why I switched to this way of working. Perhaps I also had inexplicable problems such as yours.

All the best,
Denis