Can you edit that tag for that file within Windows Media Player?

There's a number of ways in which a file could have bad/uneditable metadata.
Compressed ID3 tags are notably unsupported, for example.

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"knicknack" <knicknack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm having a heck of a time trying to organize my music ever since I got a
> vista computer. I have an external hard drive with a lot of music on it,
> and
> also have been putting new music on it. When I try to change the track
> information (whether through explorer, winamp, or itunes) it won't let me
> do
> it on all files.
>
> For example:
>
> I have a folder containing an entire album, which I got from the same
> source. I want to make sure all the track info is correct before I put it
> into winamp. I open explorer, and see that not all the track numbers are
> there. So, I start putting them in. Every once in a while, I'll edit the
> track number (or artist, or genre, or anything at all) and vista throws an
> error:
>
> "An error occurred when writing the property '#' to the file 'filename'."
>
> (where property is any property and filename is the name of the file)
>
> I've checked into ownership - i changed the ownership of the external
> drive
> to the administrator group. I've looked into read only - i have access to
> full permissions on the files and folders. It reads as a winamp media
> file,
> and looks the same as the others that I can edit. When I look at the
> security on the folders, sometimes 'read only' is shaded in in blue, so I
> have unchecked that and applied it to everything in the folders and
> subfolders just to make sure everything is readable. However, when I do
> that, it still ends up blue the next time I look at it. Since blue means
> absolutely nothing to me, I don't know what this means at all, but...
>
> So, I own everything in the directory, it should be readable and writable,
> and I have permissions to everything.
>
> So what on EARTH is going on? It's very very very very annoying.