What is the best media player for VinylStudio albums? MusicBee not working well...

[chobson]

VS works great and seamlessly to transfer my LPs to my computer hard drive. I use MusicBee to play and organize my MP3 files, but when I try to transfer a VS album into MusicBee I lose all of the metadata - the artist, album name, album cover image etc. Anybody know what I need to do to so I can use MusicBee and capture all of the information that VS stores? thx

OR - is there another music player that I should use instead of MusicBee to play and organize my MP3 files? thx again

[Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)]

So you're saving your tracks as MP3?  There should be no problem with that - just don't save them as WAV.

If you're still stuck, please send me a couple of tracks to look at:

p DOT sanders AT alpinesoft DOT co DOT uk

Thanks.

[westrock2000]

I export to Foobar2000 on Windows and it's never had an issue. What you are describing almost sounds like what happens where there is a difference in expectation of the ID3 tag versions.

I have not used Musicbee before (though have certainly heard many highly praise it), but a quick search seems to indicate it does have some settings related to displaying different versions of ID3. Maybe it is set to only display a certain version and it's different than what Vinyl Studio is outputting.
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=39928.0

[Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)]

Good call westrock.  VinylStudio currently supports ID3v2.3, we will look into supporting v2.4.  In the meantime, unchecking 'Save ID3 tags as Unicode' might help.

[Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)]

Hmmm, looked into this some more and everything is working fine for me, whatever MusicBee settings I use.

To progress this, I need those files.