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Re: OT - Getting Windows 2000 to let MP3s go so that they can be edited?
de fitwell 05/12/2006 12:44
On Mon, 08 May 2006 22:48:07 -0400, fitwell <NoSpam@NoJunkMail.com>
wrote:
>I have an older computer (PIII, 650 MHz, 128 SDRAM). I'm having
>difficulty editing the ID3 tags and renaming files, etc., because
>Windows 2000 more often than not grabs on to the file somehow and
>doesn't let go. A poster in another ng said that that there is
>apparently a way to let the OS let go of the files so one can work
>with them but that the poster didn't recall how to do that. Does
>anyone here know what this solution might be? It gets very annoying
>when one can't edit or work with one's files properly.
>
>TIA.
Hi, and thanks for everyone's responses.
To answer the obvious question, no, there is nothing else actively
using the file. I'm not sure what the problem is, myself, but it is a
known problem as it's not something that other groups have posted back
about never hearing. Posting to an MS Windows 2000 group didn't yield
results as they didn't remember what the fix was <lol>. They me to go
to an MP3 group, which I did. Still nothing. A fix proposed over
there to unregister an shmedia.dll didn't work as I don't have this
file (and, yes, searched for it was all files not hidden <g>).
The problem _may_ lie in my older computer. May. That's what someone
advised. I provided my specs, too, and seems it's not powerful enough
for Win2K. Whatever the case may be, so far the probably has only
been with MP3s, but apparently this type of thing can happen with
video files also.
Unless the MP3 is something I've _just_ saved, i.e., after re-encoding
with an MP3 editor, or it's something I haven't touched in a while, I
cannot edit the tags. When I switched tag editors, the message was
something like the file was in use (which it wasn't).
So hopefully someone who has run into this before will read this msg
and will know solution. I'm really having a lot of trouble with this.
And since I'm transferring all my cassette audio books to MP3 for my
MP3 player, it's a daily problem.
Thanks. :oD