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

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

Please file a big: http://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Maverick88 <amtor hotmail com> wrote:
>
> 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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