Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

2025-04-18 08:02:48

Anyone else having this issue? At first I thought it was just the program I was using but even dbpoweramp is doing it now. Seems to be a problem with Flac 1.5? Metadata shows in players like Foobar etc. but not in file explorer. This isnt the case for every track/album. But it is happening for a few of them. I am a huge newbie to all of this.

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Reply #1 – 2025-04-18 08:23:50

Perhaps https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,118153.0.html.

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Reply #2 – 2025-04-18 09:19:42

Sounds about right to me. Thanks

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Reply #3 – 2025-04-18 20:38:18

If you have dBpoweramp, you can replace the poorly written tag reader from Microsoft, with dBpoweramps:

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/forum/read-only/hints-tips-read-only/34084-replacing-windows-10-or-newer-system-codec-property-handlers-with-dbpoweramp-s

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Reply #4 – 2025-04-19 00:45:29

I followed the instructions and renamed the .wav entry to ._wav

Should I also rename the .flac entry to ._flac?

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Reply #5 – 2025-04-19 10:16:57

Yes

Re: Tags not showing in file explorer (windows)

Reply #6 – 2025-04-19 14:39:16

Problem Solved. Thank you so much!

p.s. You are a Godsend. Even Wav files will properly display foreign characters in metadata now. Been trying to figure that out forever. Thanks again!