Windows 10: Groove Shows Unknown Artist & Unknown Album

I found this thread because I had the same annoying thing happening - but I solved it simply by using MP3tag to make sure that the "Album Artist" part of the tags was correctly filled in. (You don't have to use that program, but it's quicker than doing each track's "properties... details" individually.) Now everything displays correctly.

 

Since a few updates back the majority of mine started showing the art but there are a handful that don't for some reason. I am hesitant to start fiddling with tags etc. My music software of choice is iTunes which feeds our phones and iPads via iCloud music library and iTunes Match. Seeing as everything displays perfect on iTunes I'd be concerned that changing metadata could adversely affect iTunes. As much as I'd like groove to do it's job and display correctly I wonder if it's worth the risk!

 

I've never found this thread because, while annoying that Groove doesn't seem to be able to handle this, Windows Media Player can. In WMP I just right-click on the 'unknown album' and choose 'Find album info'. I then get all track listings along with album artwork, which both WMP and Groove now display.

 

Groove is still screwing up tons of metadata!
Renders the tracks unplayable!
Rip your CD's, (yes, I'm still ripping my CD's!!!), in WMP and leave it!!!

 

Yep, groove is junk. I think MS are abandoning it slowly anyway. I just stick with iTunes. I dislike Apple but at least their music software works. Windows media player also works well still. Legacy (is that what it’s called) software is the best. All these modern native apps (uwp?) like films and tv, mail and calendar, groove etc seem to be poor imitations of proper software and too unreliable/prone to breaking. Basically anything served up by the Microsoft store

 

Yes, iTunes is quite good - but I've noticed some of the artist photos are blank and there appears to be no way of updating them.

 

that’s a good point. It frustrates me that you cannot update your own artist pics especially when you’ve got one that you know is wrong!

 

Groove is just utter what-cows-leave-behind... I have MusicBee ánd Jaagle. Good enough for me... *Smile