Re: [Easytag-mailing] easytag genres

[Isaac Witmer <isaaclw gmail com>]

Is there anyway I can strip the files and then write the tags without loosing them and manually going through all 800 files?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Mark Ferry <mark markferry net> wrote:

On 16/06/2010, Isaac Witmer <isaaclw gmail com> wrote:
> When I tag music "Electronic" or "Hip-Hop" etc., it seems that it's marking
> it as a predefined genre (hence the drop down list).
> When I browse my Walkman instead of having plain text genres, it instead has
> numbers (it turns out Electronic = 52 and Hip-Hop = 7).
>

Sounds like it's picking up the ID3v1 tag.
Try disabling the option to write ID3v1 tags in the ID3 tags settings.
You probably have to strip files you've already tagged with ID3v1.

- Mark