For a large number of the songs (maybe 30% of a couple thousand) in my itunes library I cannot change the ID3 tag information. Some it tells me "error the file may be write protected" others I update it but the change never takes effect. It seems to correspond to the songs that were added to my library a long time ago as opposed to the more recent additions. I have repeatedly verified that there is no write protect attribute on the songs but I still can't update the tags. Is there something I can do to fix this? Is there an external tool I can use to force the changes? Some of the ID tags are completely wrong and it causes the entire itunes library not to be organized properly. For example some songs only have a copy of the file name in the ID3 tag and no other data.
I have tried updating and using the most recent version of iTunes and it doesn't help. Thanks.
Vista is probably causing this. Take full control and ownership over the top-level music folder, and all its subfolders. Making sure it's not read-only is not enough for Vista.
I tried doing that just now but it didn't fix the problem. It's strange because even before I did this I could edit some songs but not others. I downloaded an stand alone tag editor and it will not open these problem files either. I don't get it.
Finally that does it but I would like to know how to fix the problem once and for all without having to go through this process all the time.
I don't understand why it's only some files. The same files that I can't edit the ID3 for cannot be sent to the recycle bin by iTunes but other songs can be edited or deleted no problem. I don't get it. It seems if this is the fix than it should have applied to all the files on the hard drive.
So it's something with UAC? I dunno, I don't have Vista yet. You might have better luck in a Vista forum. At least we narrowed it down to a UAC problem!