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photogirl007
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Why does itunes metadata get stripped in dropbox? Anyone else have this issue?

I have clients sending me .mp3 music files with embedded metadata they input using itunes. Much of the time the metadata is completely wiped once it gets transferred into dropbox. The client will screenshot to show me it's there on their end. Once transferred and uploaded it completely disappears but for the song name usually. Can someone please help with this? It is becoming a detriment to my business and I'm starting to think I won't be able to use dropbox anymore if this doesn't get resolved very soon.


Wiped metadata includes: Album art, lyrics, composer, grouping, bpm, comments ... pretty much everything.

 

Thanks!

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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hi there photogirl007 - thanks for flagging this with us. 

     

    Can you please clarify how the files are uploaded to Dropbox in the first place and how are shared with you exactly?

     

    If you could send us a couple of screenshots with some examples, I'd appreciate it.

     

    Thanks!

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