Help with ape track naming

[Roscoe62]

I've got a problem I need some help with!

I have about 20-odd albums online I use with X-Lobby. I noticed the other day that the last 3 albums I ripped and compressed into ape format will not show up in XLobby using the track names I'd given them. Instead, they'll just appear as Track 1, Track 2 etc. The album name also doesn't seem to work. It will just appear under "unknown artist".

I thought maybe something wasn't quite working under the experimental version, but I've just noticed that Winamp 5 is also doing exactly the same thing! When I open the playlist manager and point it to the directory, all the tracks appear as track 1, track 2 etc instead of their names! I don't recall doing anything differently while ripping / compressing these albums. As a test I picked a couple of my other albums randomly and those track names appear just fine. I tried to see whether there were any tags attached which might have been interfering with winamp or xlobby picking up the names but no joy.....no attached tags. I use Exact Audio Copy to rip & compress my CDs, and I use the directory structure : Music/Artist/Album.....I'm stumped!

Does anyone have any clues?

[stevenhanna6]

maybe they have "ape tags" which are not the same as id3 tags? I would have to get a hold of one of your APE files to take a look....but I know those things are huge....maybe you have a small one under 10MB that I can look at?

[Roscoe62]

Steven,

are you just after one ape file to look at? If that's the case I do have one that's less than 10Mb I can send you. Where would you like me to send it?

[stevenhanna6]

if its a track that isnt displaying properly like you said, send it to

mailto:steve@xlobby.com

[Roscoe62]

Steven,

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