Wow! This should help a lot. I was seeing more errors last night in how the tags were being interpreted.
Thanks very much! Geoff B wrote: > On 10/31/05, Mark Lanctot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I use Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) to manage >>tags. I like the interface but sometimes the tag >>changes don't "take" and I have to do it in foobar. > > > I also use MP3Tag, and used to find the exact same issue you describe. > What it turned out to be (for me, at least) was that some files had > both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. > Slimserver seems to be inconsistent in which tag it uses. > > What I did that fixed it completely was configure MP3Tag to show me > which tags were in which files. Add two columns to MP3Tag > (right-click column headers): > > Name: Current Tag > Value: %_tag_read% > Field: > Sort by: > > Name: Tags In File > Value: %_tag% > Field: > Sort by: > > Then, change Tools | Options |Tags | Mpeg: > Read=ID3v1 and ID3v2 > Write=ID3v2 > > To fix the actual problem, you can then find all the files that have > both v1 and v2 tags, select them, and use File | Remove Tag. You > should then have just ID3v2 tags in those files. For files that have > only ID3v1 tags, you need to edit them somehow (set them to their > existing genre, for example), which should add ID3v2 tags. Then do > the above remove action. > > Hope that helps, > Geoff > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > -- ___________________________________ Mark Lanctot, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
