📎 AI Summary:
The user upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 and experienced issues with Windows Media Player not recognizing MP3 tags, displaying "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Album." They initially questioned if Microsoft had removed MP3 tag support but found that with the installation of the WMP Tag Plus extension, FLAC files were read correctly while MP3 tags remained problematic. The user ultimately resolved the issue by copying their music to an NTFS drive using robocopy, enabling WMP to properly read MP3 tags, likely due to compatibility issues with ext4 file systems in Windows.

Vamp898

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Hello There,

this evening i upgraded my Windows 7 i used for Gaming to Windows 8.1

It only had 5-6 Games installed and rarely was on the Internet, so i thought the upgrade would go fast and easy.

But since the upgrade (all updates in Windows 8.1 are already done), WMP does not read any MP3 File anymore. He just tells me "Unkown Artist, Unkwon Album" for every title...

Did Microsoft removed the Feature for MP3 Tags in WMP?

Because i also have FLAC Music, i installed WMP Tag Plus Extension and now he is able to read FLAC Extensions fine, but still no MP3 and WMP Tag Plus tells me that he doesnt want to Support it as WMP natively supports MP3 Tags
 

Solution
Fixed it, seems like WMP on Windows 8 (unlike on Windows 7) cant work properly with ext4 File-Systems. I used robocopy to copy the Music to an NTFS Disk and now WMP can properly read MP3 Tags

Vamp898

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Aug 23, 2014
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Thread Author #2
Fixed it, seems like WMP on Windows 8 (unlike on Windows 7) cant work properly with ext4 File-Systems. I used robocopy to copy the Music to an NTFS Disk and now WMP can properly read MP3 Tags
 

Solution