[Banshee-List] Banshee NOT compatible with MOST MP3 Players

[Maverick88 <amtor hotmail com>]

I just ripped a CD into MP3 tracks and imported the tracks into my Sansa Fuze
MP3 Player.  The MP3's played just fine but the Fuze did NOT recognize or
read the MP3 ID3 Tags.  

After doing some digging, I discovered that Banshee (presumably via
gstreamer) created MP3 ID3 Version 2.4 tags.  Most MP3 Players on the market
do NOT read version 2.4 tags.  (Sanze Fuze, Sony Walkman MP3 players etc). 
But most can read version 2.3 ID3 tags.

I suspect the real problem is with gstreamer.  
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459226

In the post above, you can build another gstreamer plugin (called id3v23mux)
that will create mp3 ID3 version 2.3 tags.  In Sound Juicer or Rhythmbox,
you cam modify the gstreamer pipeline for the MP3 encoding and replace the
default tag generator, id3v2mux, with a tag generator that creates version
2.3 tags, id3v23mux.  I tried it and it works great.

Unlike Rhythmbox, Banshee does not let you modify the gstreamer pipeline. 
Pity.

It would be great if the developers would consider adding support for
version 2.3 ID3 tags.  That way many more MP3 players would work properly
with Banshee.  Most of the code to do so is in the post above in the gnome
bugzilla.

Rob
P.S.  Tested Banshee 1.4.1 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron with a Sanza Fuze MP3
Player.
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