Ok, here’s something I’m noticing now:
With this Clip Sport MP3 player, I first copied the sample
mp3-files over onto my laptop PC. So I analyzed them, with one
of my meta-data inspection tools…I use one called ‘mediainfo’, which
is freely avail on the web…open-source. Cmd-line driven.
So, here’s what I’m seeing:
There were 8 sample files. I notice that the naming of the files
varied…one had that naming-style where the track# is on the front,
whereas others have some other naming styles.
But, the file NAMES are not significant, of course.
Each of these files has the ‘meta-data’ INSIDE each file…the
stuff like the album-name, and artist-name, etc,etc. As
mediainfo reveals in its output.
Yet when I run ‘mediainfo’ on all my ripped files produced by
Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, there is absolutely
NO media info inside my files. [I don;t know whether that’s
because of some setting or option, or whether that will always
be the case for all MP3 files ripped using Windows Media Player.]
The way my files indicate that meta info is because they’re
layed out in a sub-tree. So for example, there’s a directory
“Bob Dylan”, and under that are directories whose dir name
is the name of an album, and then below each album dir,
are the track MP3-files, whose names are the song/names.
So, the question becomes: Might there be some tool somewhere
that can walk thru my sub-trees, and put the derived meta-info
INTO each song file, so that then the song files will contain
their meta data (just like the sample files do)?
That way, I could put only the mp3 files into the “Music”
folder on the device. (Right now, my files got copied
across maintaining the sub-trees…i.e. the MP3-files are
not in the “Music” folder, but rather are in sub-dir
folders below the “Music”.
Does this help?
Or am I going to HAVE to re-rip all my CDs, using some
tool OTHER THAN Windows Media Player?
(Hopefully, the answer to that is NO, because that
would be LOTS of re-work. A tool, as mentioned above,
is what’s needed.
Again, I don’t understand at all how a problem like
this didn’t get discovered long before this product released???
