Xbox music help

[kingcartwright]

I was wondering if you could help me Xbox music keeps changing the names of tracks on my phone, its the file tags there fine

any help?

 

[shinygerbil]

This is sadly a new "feature" of Xbox Music that is basically wrong. Instead of only filling in missing info, it will now overwrite all info contained in your songs with what it thinks is correct.

As far as I know the only way to stop it from doing so is to open Music -> Settings -> turn off Connect with Xbox Music. This means it won't automatically download artist background pictures, but it will stop messing with your stuff.

 

[kingcartwright]

oh yeah I wouldn't mind say if it did all the songs but it doesn't and splits my albums

 

[Green Samot]

It's done that with me for some of the music actually downloaded through Xbox music. I sorted it by manually matching the albums (searching and selecting) in Xbox music on my pc.

 

[Bryan_J]

Yup, Xbox Music: The Metadata Apocalypse (the only part of this debacle I enjoy is writing that phrase).

One other thing I'd add to the comments above is make sure you find the metadata and connect to Xbox options on all your devices, see if you can get stable metadata and then turn things back on from there if you want to. I kept having problems across all five devices, turns out I hadn't clicked off the metadata setting on two of them - ones I don't use much. When I turned those off as well, my phone seemed to start to stabilize.