I’m downloading audiobooks from Librivox.org and Genre/Track#s aren’t filled out. What’s the correct Genre for audiobooks on the Clip: “Audiobook”, “Audiobooks”, does it matter if I drag the book into the Audiobooks folder on the Clip?
I keep seeing people who recommend specific ID3 tag “editors” - are these editors really a benefit over just using Windows Explorer “properties”? (In Explorer, you can hilite the entire group of MP3 files, edit properties, and enter the Album, Author, and Genre to apply it to the entire list, and this works fine for me except for track-specific information.) Can the ID3 tag editors handle editing track numbers en masse?
Thanks!
Another use of these editors is to specify the version of ID3 tag to use. Apparently the Clip doesn’t use the latest version and this has caused some problems for people. I understand you have a greater potential for problems if you use foreign characters.
Thanks for the quick responses! I didn’t know the folders would be used if the tags weren’t filled in - I’d picked up from the forum that Sansa products are pretty much dependent on the ID3 tags, so I’d always been entering them.
Thanks for the tips here. I just got an mp3 audiobook that had the tracks all screwed up (10 “CDs” with tracks numbered 1 - 8).
The MP3Tag utility’s “auto-number” feature was brilliant. Saved me a lot of grumbling.
I did notice a latency with the MP3Tag directory browser - the Clip didn’t show up right away in the browser. It did after a little while (of course by the time I noticed the Clip *was* showing up in the MP3Tag directory browser, I’d already copied the mp3 files to a local drive, renumbered the tracks and was in process of copying them back to the Clip via Windows Explorer). But anyway, it worked, and I was happy! Thanks!
You can modify the ID3 tag info of your local music files by uploading them to Streaming Audio Recorder, or you can add ID3 tag for your recorded/downloaded music tracks with it. It also features an “Identify” function that help you identify the unknown songs intelligently. Now read on this article to get details on how to edit ID3 tags for music files.
