Help with tags on mp3's
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Hi,
i have just received my h140 iriver mp3 player.
i am trying to reorganise my music. by putting it into my own genre folders, then by album.
i have used tag&rename and thought all tags were sorted. i have tried wmp 10, and mediamonkey, but still when i use the genre within the h140, there are songs which don;t fit the genre they should be in. eg. alicia keys, songs in a minor, i set to r&b, have that genre and all is fine in wmp, but on player it has put the album in genre (14), which is R&B but the title is not R&B. any ideas?
thanks
jody
i have just received my h140 iriver mp3 player.
i am trying to reorganise my music. by putting it into my own genre folders, then by album.
i have used tag&rename and thought all tags were sorted. i have tried wmp 10, and mediamonkey, but still when i use the genre within the h140, there are songs which don;t fit the genre they should be in. eg. alicia keys, songs in a minor, i set to r&b, have that genre and all is fine in wmp, but on player it has put the album in genre (14), which is R&B but the title is not R&B. any ideas?
thanks
jody
Get a decent ID3 tag editor, Tucows has a few for download. Alternatively get iTunes (free download) which you can use both to edit tags and to do an online look-up of the tags.
I recently re-ripped 150-odd CDs and over 90% of them were correct, the rest I had to edit manually. It's not foolproof, but at least you don't have to manually key in every bit of data any more.
I recently re-ripped 150-odd CDs and over 90% of them were correct, the rest I had to edit manually. It's not foolproof, but at least you don't have to manually key in every bit of data any more.
hi,
unfortunately using iTunes partly got me into this mess. I ripped most of my cd's on my mac laptop and with a lot of compilations it resorted them into artist rather than the compilation. this was never an issue as it workedd fine within iTunes. now that i have the iRiver (two friends who both have iPods are both selling them) i wanted to rearrange music etc.
i have basically been rearranging within tag&rename, and it is going fine, if a bit laborious.
unfortunately using iTunes partly got me into this mess. I ripped most of my cd's on my mac laptop and with a lot of compilations it resorted them into artist rather than the compilation. this was never an issue as it workedd fine within iTunes. now that i have the iRiver (two friends who both have iPods are both selling them) i wanted to rearrange music etc.
i have basically been rearranging within tag&rename, and it is going fine, if a bit laborious.
jodypress, if you have access to a Linux computer, you could try the KDE desktop's JuK tag editor:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10575
Works a treat, even with ten thousands of files loaded at once. It has support for mp3 and ogg files (which are supported by the iriver), and it generates playlists like you can use to organise your songs in the H140 player.
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10575
Works a treat, even with ten thousands of files loaded at once. It has support for mp3 and ogg files (which are supported by the iriver), and it generates playlists like you can use to organise your songs in the H140 player.
thanks all for the help. i use tdt for to create the databse for the iriver. the problem, i found out was that the numbers of genre relate to id3v1 tags not v2. so all sorted now.
the problem with a lot of the media software is that it is really designed for you to put your cd in and rip it. not if you have a collection from the internet
the problem with a lot of the media software is that it is really designed for you to put your cd in and rip it. not if you have a collection from the internet
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