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| From | <drewmacdonald@ca.rr.com> |
| Subject | OT: mp3 & ID3 |
| Date | Wed, 9 May 2007 19:50:23 -0700 |
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I'm generally pretty good with techie stuff, but I'm having a weird problem with my Samsung YP-T8 mp3 player.
I can't get the thing to reliably display the Artist, Album and Title information in its window. On tracks I've ripped from CDs myself (using a third party ripper like EAC or MusicMatch), the Samsung consistently recognizes and displays the pertinent information.
But on most tracks that originate from other sources (eMusic, blogs, etc.) the player usually shows "None" as the artist and either "None" or a three-character block of gibberish as the Album. Now I know these tracks have valid ID3 tags imbedded; they are recognized and displayed by Windows Explorer, MusicMatch Jukebox, Windows Media Player and even the Samsung Media Studio software that came with the unit -- but not the mp3 player.
What's the deal? Are there different types of ID3 tags that are read differently? Is there a way to distinguish one from another?
I wouldn't be asking this here if Samung's own support site (hah!) or Google had provided an answer. Any ideas? These days, most of my "new purchase" listening happens from the mp3 player, and I hate hearing something new without being able to identify the track.
Feel free to answer off list to avoid boring our fellow Auditeers.
Thanks in advance,
Drew
np: Maple Mars - BEAUTIFUL MESS
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