Preview doesn't display audio file info from external drives in Monterey or Ventura

They always worked on Mojave and others, and I thought it worked the first few times I installed Monterey (that was a mess, reinstalled 5x before trying Ventura).

This is relevant and I should have mentioned it....

Before I realized the Monterey install was a bust, I connected my primary external to a Windows machine and deleted the hidden Mac files from the root of the drive. I only did this because every time I opened the drive on my Mac it opened to the same particular folder, which was weird and annoying. I figured the OS would just re-write whatever hidden system files and "reset" the whole thing. Maybe I was wrong and shouldn't have done that? It stopped expanding to that same folder every time after I deleted the files, but it was also around then that I noticed this problem.

BUT this missing file info is also occurring on my backup drive. I never messed with any hidden files there, and I did all my backups before the first Monterey install, so I'm not positive what I did in Windows is actually the cause of this.

Thanks for checking how yours behaves.