[audacity4blind] Re: Can't delete track numbers wh editing meta data
- From: Sharni-Lee Ward <sharni-lee.ward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:38:41 +0930
Thanks! :)
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:53:33 +0100
> From: david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Can't delete track numbers wh editing meta data
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi Sharni-Lee,
> I've just checked removing a track number with audacity, and it seems to
> work. With the value of the track number as the focus, I pressed f2 to select
> the existing text, and pressed delete to delete it.
>
> Concerning the track numbers in windows media player. If you're using windows
> 7 or 8 then:
> 1. press alt+v to open the view menu.
> 2. choose "choose columns", and the choose columns dialog opens.
> 3. In the list, uncheck track number.
>
> David.
>
>
> On Friday, 27 June 2014, 3:26, Sharni-Lee Ward <sharni-lee.ward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to edit the meta data for a number of my songs, which I got
> via burned CD's from a friend years ago. Some of these have track-numbers
> that are not relevant, as they're not even part of a professional album, so
> I've been trying to get rid of them because they're annoying. (For some
> reason, my screen-reader is reading the track-numbers as well as the song
> titles in my Windows Media Player library and I don't know how to stop it
> from doing that. I don't even know what I did to make it start doing it.)
>
> I've tried deleting the track numbers in the "Edit Meta Data" feature in
> Audacity and doing it in Windows Media Player, but no matter what I do they
> won't. Go. Away. I can change the artist's name (a lot of my music has
> "unknown" where the artist's name should be), but I can't remove the
> irrelevant numbers. Is there anything I can do to get rid of them permanently?
>
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