Just bought a 2gb clip and loaded it up with music from my PC by dropping folders into the ‘music’ directory in it’s internal memory. Top folder was artist name, next folder had album name and contained the songs. Problem is that the clip doesn’t recognize any of it. It’s all ‘unknown’ artists and albums. Never had this type of trouble before with other devices. When the clip is plugged in, it shows correctly in windows explorer. Any ideas??
@divrdrew wrote:
Just bought a 2gb clip and loaded it up with music from my PC by dropping folders into the ‘music’ directory in it’s internal memory. Top folder was artist name, next folder had album name and contained the songs. Problem is that the clip doesn’t recognize any of it. It’s all ‘unknown’ artists and albums. Never had this type of trouble before with other devices. When the clip is plugged in, it shows correctly in windows explorer. Any ideas??
The Clip is a tag device, like many other mp3 players. It uses the mp3 tags to organize its song database. Use a program like mp3tag to put the song information in each file. The folder organization is irrelevant. Most good cd ripping software can automatically tag files, and most of the music available from the net is already tagged.
Looks like it worked. Got the tags created. Wife has the player…will try to upload them again once she gets back and see what happens. Curious, all my other MP3 players accepted these files just fine and was able to recognize all the information without a problem.
I think I posted my reply too early. Looks like the files already had tags…when I load them into mp3tag, the tag information looks to be correct…I just converted a batch without moving over to look at the tag information prior to converting. As I load in a new batch from a separate location (including the ones I put on her clip), it appears that the tags are already present.
It could be that the ID3 tags are there, but maybe they’re in the wrong format for the Clip to read them. ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 format is the ticket. 
This is odd. Using Mp3tag, it shows them as ID3v2.3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.3). I selected them all, under tools, write, I only selected ISO-8859-1 as the write format. Then I re-saved them. When I reloaded them into mp3tag, but it still shows them as ID3v2.3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.3). Not sure if it should show them as ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1). I deleted all the files from the clip, recopied them, but no good. Everything still shows as unknown. Seems like the mp3tag program wrote them correctly as ISO-8859-1, but how can I verify that. Never had to deal with tag problems for my mp3 players before, so this is new to me.
Firmware version is V02.01.32A. Is there a more recent version? Any other ideas? My wife loves the clip, but it’s pretty worthless if she can’t select my artist / album.
Appreciate all the help. Really confused by this one.
Message Edited by divrdrew on 08-16-2009 05:00 AM
I have this same problem. Drag and drop DID work, but then I tried to Sync with WMP and it doesn’t recognize anything now.
