Re: [Easytag-mailing] easytag genres

[Isaac Witmer <isaaclw gmail com>]

Messing around with MP3Diags fixed the genres, not entirely sure what the issue was, but maybe the next person with this problem can fix it also.

Then I noticed that some MP3's were unmarked.�It seems the NWZ-E345 only reads ID3v2.3. Files without this version don't register as having any tags.

Going back over it with easytag allowed me to specify which version of ID3 I wanted.

I should be good now.

Thanks all!

-Isaac

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Mark Ferry <mark markferry net> wrote:

Hi

On 16/06/2010, Isaac Witmer <isaaclw gmail com> wrote:

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

Sorry Isaac, just realised the issue is the use of ID3v1 genre IDs in
ID3v2 tags.
Stripping the tags won't make any difference.

One way to do it is write ID3v2 genre with an explicit ID3v1 ref
followed by the text name in �IDv2.3 style:
�http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-42b02d20fb8bf48e38ec5415e34909945dd849dc
e.g.
Tag Hip-Hop as: "(7)Hip-Hop".

This makes easytag write text, and the genre is interpreted correctly
by Rhythmbox at least.

See Appendix A for Genre IDs:
�http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames

You'd need to process the Genre field for each genre you use that's in
the ID3v1 list.
e.g.
�Process Fields
�Genre
�Convert "Hip-Hop" to "(7)Hip-Hop"
�Uncheck all uppercase/lowercase conversions
�Process

On 16/06/2010, Random Mister <random mister gmail com> wrote:
> �I just looked into it and found a (dirty) fix for the problem. Note that
> �I did not test it very well, but it seems to work.
> �In the source code of id_tag.c you have to replace this line: (line 291)
> � � �genre_value = Id3tag_String_To_Genre(FileTag->genre);
> �with this:
> � � �genre_value = ID3_INVALID_GENRE;
>

Easytag is Doing the Right Thing according to 2.4.0.

> �I will look into a more permanent solution when a have the time.
>

An option, unchecked by default, to force text-only TCON fields?

ciao
�Mark

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