I've had a strange occurance in the Zune software (who hasn't :-\). It
goes something like this
1)
I have a bunch of "Various Artists" albums in Zune, with the Artists
field filled out as the artist of the song (as it should be)
2) Auto-fill information is disabled
3) I dock and sync the Zune. Songs transfer to Zune without incident. Works "the way it should"
4) Undock Zune and enjoy for a period of time
5)
Redock Zune, and this causes the Zune software to sync (normal). and to
compulsively overwrite all Artists fields with "Various Artists" where
Album Artist is defined as such, which makes my collection look like
this : http://krhainos.tk/zunehate.JPG
There's nothing you can
do aside from hopelessly watch the tags become useless. DO NOT PANIC.
DO NOT CLOSE ZUNE. Cancel the sync and remove the Zune at once, before
the collection on your Zune gets just as damaged. I realize it's a
partial sync with a bunch of broken data, but the fix is as follows :
Do not reattach your Zune yet.
6)
Once Zune is done ruining the database, go to List view, and select all
songs that have their Artists field renamed to "Various Artists" and
Delete them.
7) Settings -> Restore files previously deleted frm collection [Restore]
8)
Zune will rebuild the database using correct ID3/tagged information and
let it finish. Thankfully, Zune only ruins the database; and not the
embedded metadata.
9) Redock and sync Zune. Zune will now
overrwite the ruined data from the partial sync earlier in step 5.
Both Zune collection and your portable should have correct information.
This
seems to be intermittent. I can't find any rhyme or reason why it does
this. However, I've repeated this about six to seven times now, and it
works every time.
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
-K
