VLC is showing a different title than is in the mp3 metadata
VLC player: How to display file name on the title bar.
Menu Tools -> Preferences (Show settings = ALL) -> Input/Codecs? Then at the very bottom of the right panel set the option "Change title according to current media" to "$F" or "$u" (without quotes $f= file name and path ---- $u= file name only}). Save, exit and restart VLC.
It turned out that the files had two sets of tags. One set, the one I wanted, was written as an ID3 tag. The other set, which VLC was displaying, was written as an APE tag. To fix this, I downloaded MP3tag and used it to remove the APE tags. Steps:
- Open all the problem files in MP3tag
- Go to tools -> Options -> Tags -> Mpeg and ensure that it is set to read and write only APE tags (this should leave your ID3 tags untouched.
- Remove all the tag content (on the right sidebar, make sure none of the fields have text). If you have multiple files, you can select
<blank>from the drop down menu. - Save the files!