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Song Title ID3 Display vs. Filename

Hello everyone, I have recently re-organized my music library into an "\Artist\Album\TrackNumber Title.mp3" style format. Upon transferring my music to my Galaxy S3, every media player app I have tried displays the song titles as their raw filenames, rather than the compelte ID3 metadata title. Because of a few albums with identically named songs on them, it would be very inconvenient to move the filenames around.

Basically, the media player should be smart enough to use the ID3 title rather than the file name. Surely there is a way to configure Winamp or RealPlayer to read them in this way, right? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
 
My mistake, the title ID3 data was intact, but some of the songs were missing Artist information, causing it to display the filenames as such.
 
They should use the ID3 titles whatever the file name is. At least the stock player on both my Samsung devices does. It may be a problem with the ID3 tag version. Try using Mp3Tag to retag them.
 
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