I just got my 4gb Sansa Clip today, but am having problems getting the id3 tags to show at all. I am coming from an Itunes/Ipod Environment, and all of my mp3s are properly tagged.
Sometimes I also use Mp3tag to tag my music, as well.
Basically, I have been dragging and dropping my mp3s in the Music folder, via Windows Explorer. All mp3s are complete albums organized in separate folders.
On my Clip, my mp3s are all present, but for Artist, Album, Genre Tags, they all show up as Unknown.
Under Songs, all mp3 files are shown not by song title, but by filename.
I’ve had the best results using v2.3 UTF-16 tags as well so you should not be too far from solving this. I mass-retagged my entire library (using mp3tag) and have zero problems with any genre, artist, etc. since doing so; several months now. The only oddities were conflicts between WMAs and MP3s resulting in some genre replication, that’s been resolved in firmware v0.29 though.
If you’re using mp3tag (or some other tagging util), make sure you replace the v1 AND v2.3 tags with the updated content. In fact you should be able to remove the id3 v1 tags completely. Do this to avoid conflicts between tags (yes the MP3 file can and will contain BOTH v1 and v2 tags if you set up the tagging util to do so) as the Clip could certainly have some remaining issue if the tags have different/missing data.
mp3tag is great for creating m3u playlists as well; once you have the tagging sorted out, search the forum for topics about that and you’ll be solid.
If you continue to have problems or aren’t sure what’s going on, PM me - if you send me one of your mp3s I can look at the tags and see if there’s some conflict etc.
Oh, one more thing; there are such evils as non-standard tags…it is possible that iTunes appends some tags that the Clip doesn’t like. Not hating on iTunes, just mentioning it as a possibility…
