![]() ![]() Or, this could explain why many Windows users are so obsessive about the folder structure that stores their music: perhaps Windows apps get a lot of their “tags” from folders… I’m not sure how other music management apps handle this, especially on Windows, but I’m sure they all do something similar. ITunes is able to manage tags for these files, but only because they’re stored in your iTunes library file whenever you transfer or copy these files, the tags are lost. (You can tag WAV files, but for some reason, there’s no consistency as to whether different apps or hardware devices can read or write them correctly.) WAV files don’t have a standard for tags: with most apps, only the file name is portable. ![]() You should not use WAV files with iTunes in fact, you should probably not use them at all. I had no way of assuming that this would be the case, so he is going to have to restore from his backup and start over. I explained two ways of doing this, and, after he used one of these methods, he found that he had 16,000 tracks with no tags. A poster over at Kirk’s iTunes Forum wanted to split his iTunes library, because it had become too large.
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