Comments on: ID3 tags

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:14:50 +0000

Thanks for all the good suggestions. There are indeed many ID3 tagging programs out there — but the trouble is that they all represent an additional step above simply copying things to the device.

The m240 doesn’t support Rockbox, alas.

By: Russell Mayes

Russell Mayes — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:24:03 +0000

My car only supports IDEv1 and I found that EasyTAG has the option to switch between v1 and v2 tags.

By: Jonas Häggqvist

Jonas Häggqvist — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:57:02 +0000

David: Rockbox does not work on the Sansa m200 series as Thomas says, but some work has been done to port Rockbox to it. If you are interested in getting your hands dirty, a good starting point is http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SansaM200Port

Jonas Häggqvist – Rockbox committer

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:29:43 +0000

Check out Picard. Does both at the same time.

By: David

David — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:59:29 +0000

I took the rather extreme solution of loading my wife’s sansa up with
rockbox. It recognizes v2 tags, and is generally less buggy. No
complaints from my wife about rockbox. As far as I remember it is
easy to uninstall, so you might try it out.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:17:08 +0000

I was lucky enough to get a device (e2xx) supported by rockbox for my wife. The original firmware had enough quirks to make her prefer the replacement. Unfortunately, the m2xx seems not supported yet, but I’d recommend you keep an eye on it.

By: Alex R.

Alex R. — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:28:58 +0000

Sounds like Kid3 to the rescue! http://kid3.sourceforge.net/

I recently had to go through a directory and adjust tags, and wanted a direct tag editor, rather than try to monkey with Amarok to get it done. Kid3 really saved me, and it does have full support for editing the ID3v1 tag, copying it from the ID3v2 tag, etc etc. Really really nice tag editor :)

By: Omari

Omari — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:10:56 +0000

Actually I have grown increasingly frustrated with what you call “modern” media players. They are often pretty but cumbersome, making easy things difficult and hard things impossible. Amarok 1.4 couldn’t even do podcasts correctly.

I downgraded the whole suite of programs to primitive things. Audacious to play them on the computer, gnuPod to put them on the iPod, and (ahem) hpodder to download them, which works every single time. zsh or Konqueror works fine to browse through them. I find these tools are actually quicker to use than the all-in-one solutions.

All this is kind of off-topic, but I’d say I’m not surprised that the “modern” apps have inflexible tag handling. These all in one jukeboxes often get the little things wrong in my opinion.