What happens when you try? Is it greyed out, or does it look like you will
be able to, but then it won't let you?

Is there a sample file I could try this with?

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"djohnson123" <djohnson123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I too am having the same problem. I am using the same portable drive that I
> used with my XP laptop but now with a new Vista laptop I cannot edit tags
> on
> some mp3 files. I tried using Media Player to edit them like you said and
> it
> worked for one album but not another. Any thoughts ??? Don
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>> news:6609100B-F5C7-4DEF-851A-DF273BBC37BD@microsoft.com...
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>>