New? Windows 11 Behavior re: Metadata

[SwampeastMike]

After decades of finding the metadata elements of file explorer frustratingly empty despite carefully setting such in "standard" audio/video programs something changed!

The Vorbis (.ogg) files I'm presently working with for use with modern player pianos suddenly began to display their metadata in File Explorer!

I'm almost certain it began after the latest Windows 11 update.

I haven't looked at my old MP3 files from DJ days to see if they now do the same as I tediously and manually entered metadata for hundreds of CDs and hundreds of pounds of vinyl.

[SwampeastMike]

Sounds like the latest Windows 11 update improved support for reading metadata in .ogg files. It's likely now able to recognize embedded tags properly. Checking your old MP3s could confirm if this applies more broadly.

Drat! I didn't move my MP3 files during the latest migration to a new computer. No wonder the still 1TB drive (but now solid-state) didn't seem as full as I suspected. I don't believe the MP3 metadata ever showed under Windows 10 but I can't say "never" because since it was possibly a year or more since I viewed a folder with only .MP3 files.

At least I now know that my routines to read and add metadata to .OGG files on a binary basis using the same tag titles as AudioRanger are flawless!

If only I could interface with File Explorer to get the metadata of my .MID files to display. I use an extremely simple encoding scheme commonly used in professional MIDI equipment and it reads in a flash.

[RaymondW]

To be honest, I'm still using Windows 10. I'm used to it now, and I don't want to have to rebuild half the system.

[SwampeastMike]

To be honest, I'm still using Windows 10. I'm used to it now, and I don't want to have to rebuild half the system.

Sentiment appreciated but once Microsoft stops supporting an OS the bad actors do everything possible to exploit vulnerabilities and cause harm and headaches to those who continue to go online with the system.

I once kept a little used system with Windows 98 running beyond its "termination date" and it wound up being attacked. Fortunately it wasn't part of any network and it was also before wireless. This is exactly what criminal hackers are looking for--a route into your network via an "unsupported" OS or similar.

[gigemboy]

I've used MP3Tag for years to edit music metadata and Windows has been showing it fine in File Explorer, across both 10 and 11.