If you have a collection of FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files, make sure that you do not edit the metadata using Windows File Explorer 10. A new support document that issued by Microsoft prohibits it.
On her Windows 10 versions 2004 and later, there is a bug that corrupts FLAC music files if you modify their metadata using File Explorer.
This error affects Windows 10 Pro, Home, Enterprise, Workstation, and other versions of the operating system.
According to a support document published by the company, the Windows 10 File Explorer bug will corrupt some FLAC files that contain an ID3 frame before the FLAC header. ID3 is a frame responsible for storing information such as song title, artist, album, track number, etc.
In Windows 10, the FLAC application ignores the ID3 box because it assumes that FLAC files use 4-byte fLaC in the beginning. So if the file is edited by users, the ID3 box leaves. The result of course is not pleasant, since the players can not read the modified file.
Microsoft has reportedly identified the root cause and released a fix through it Windows Update.
In the KB5003214 update changelog, Microsoft confirms that the error has been corrected and that the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files can be played even if you change the title, artist, or other metadata.
For those with damaged music files, Microsoft has released a new PowerShell script which you can run to fix your damaged files. However, it will not restore the lost metadata that was stored in the ID3 frame.
To avoid problems with FLAC files, Microsoft recommends installing this month's optional cumulative update.
Caution!
However, because you can never know, it would be good to wait for others to do it first. Reports have shown that KB5003214 causes problems with icons taskbar, especially when News & Interests is enabled.
Chief, you took a year or so to tell us.
Last year I actually went to change some Flac filenames (deleting the serial number in front of each song and then… papala the collection.
In fact, then thinking that there is a bad sector in WD Green, after I checked for errors on the disk, reconstruction afterwards, I ended up in format after I spent hours transferring my flac ίδια.
Eventually, the record, although it did not seem to have a problem, was judged "unstable" and became a watch (each of its records) that was shared with friends.
Needless to say, all the files went unnoticed and it never occurred to me that the record was not to blame.