Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread Adrian
Thanks to you both. Wanna here something strange. . . or maybe not. It's the file name. A file named Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - 02 - On The Run.mp3 will not work. I rename it to pf-dsotm-03.mp3 and it works just fine. I don't know why yet. I have mp3 files which have come from th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 October 2006 12:34, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod': > quoth the Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > I've fairly sure metadata can > > be stored either at the beginning or end of the file (I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: I've fairly sure metadata can > be stored either at the beginning or end of the file (I know FLAC can do > this) and it's possible, albeit unlikely, that the nano only works with > one of those locations. MP3 Id3v1 tags are at the end, ID3v2 tags are near the beg

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 October 2006 05:39, Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod': > I have acquired an iPodNano and have been playing about with that. > I've been able to do everything I need to do using GNUpod, yet there is > a

[gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread Adrian
Greetings; I have acquired an iPodNano and have been playing about with that. I've been able to do everything I need to do using GNUpod, yet there is an oddity. Any MP3 file I encode on my computer will not play. The file is there, the iPod sees it, but when I try to play the song, it simply sk