menu organization

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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…spent only a little time on this…

…how can I separate music ALBUMS from individual SONGS.

…I’ve tried making folders with xxx.alb names but the individual songs (xxx.mp3) still show up in song lists and vice versa.

Is it possible to have album lists separate from song lists?    this is just a menu organization problem…hope it’s a simple answer.

(I’m doing straight drag and drop from my collection…not media player stuff).

thanks…

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Did you go yo music> and then scroll down to albums, and then select the album you want?

The folders dont matter. The Fuze reads Id3tags embedded in the song file. If your albums come up as unknown you need to tag the songs and enclude an album name.

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OK…how do I do that…?

a lot of my albums are ripped and burned to mp3 from my own collection…in folders…how do I ‘ID’ them so the FUZE sees this as an album?..how do I keep individual mp3 songs separate from albums?

thanks for the response…

Roger

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@refird wrote:

OK…how do I do that…?

a lot of my albums are ripped and burned to mp3 from my own collection…in folders…how do I ‘ID’ them so the FUZE sees this as an album?..how do I keep individual mp3 songs separate from albums?

thanks for the response…

Roger

To edit the tags Mp3 Tag is almost univeraslly recommended. Keeping them seperate is only able to be done it you play thrru the ablums sub menu. If you choose play all you will play every song on the player a-z in that order (if shuffle is off). But if you go to artist or albums you can choose to just play one album. If you only have a few tracks that are on the player but arnt part of a whole album, and you want to listen to just them, you could add them to the Go List which is a built in playlist. But they will show up in the players artist lists and songs list and albums list.

Message Edited by Conversionbox on 03-24-2009 01:34 AM

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Thanks for more info…

…I’m still trying to use my own edits of music files…just artists and song names…and grouped files (into albums) which is how I have my mp3 files on my computer.  When I drag and drop to the Fuze…everything gets changed into ‘taged’ info which scatters my stuff all over the place.

…is there a way to just preserve the file structure that I use on my desk top?   Simple…albums are groups of music with the name I gave them…Songs are individual mp3 with the names I gave them…simple?..it is for me.   Can this be done on a Fuze or are you stuck with the “tagged” formats…which leaves me searching like crazy for my stuff…

…once again…thanks for the help…

Roger

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With MP3Tag, just open the directory (album) on your computer, and tag all the songs in that folder with the album name you want.  Then the Fuze will see them as an album, and let you play them as a group.

Or make playlists.

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With the Fuze (and iPod, and Zune, and Zen, and many others), you must use the tags for navigation on the device. Sandisk has indicated that they might provide folder navigation in the future. In the meantime, you’ll have to edit your tags. If you don’t use the genre tag, just set it to the name of your directory and genre on the fuze will group everything the way they’re grouped in your folders.

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“If you don’t use the genre tag, just set it to the name of your directory and genre on the fuze will group everything the way they’re grouped in your folders.”

OK, be more specific for me…I don’t quite get it yet!   

thanks for responding!!

For instance…in my hard drive directory, I have all “jimmy buffett” or all “miles davis” in separate folders…

when they go to Fuze…they go EVERYwhere…can’t find em…but they are there…just a hard search and for my time value nearly inaccessible…how do I correct this???

Roger

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@refird wrote:

“If you don’t use the genre tag, just set it to the name of your directory and genre on the fuze will group everything the way they’re grouped in your folders.”

 

OK, be more specific for me…I don’t quite get it yet!   

thanks for responding!!

 

For instance…in my hard drive directory, I have all “jimmy buffett” or all “miles davis” in separate folders…

when they go to Fuze…they go EVERYwhere…can’t find em…but they are there…just a hard search and for my time value nearly inaccessible…how do I correct this???

 

Roger

 

If your songs are all tagged correctly, all the Jimmy Buffett songs should show up under the Artist tag Jimmy Buffett.

Taking the time to tag all your music correctly, all tags, makes it much easier, and it really isn’t too time consuming.  Just sit down with a cold beverage, and tell everyone to leave you alone for an hour, put the headphones on, start some music playing, and get after it.

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@tenzip wrote:

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If your songs are all tagged correctly, all the Jimmy Buffett songs should show up under the Artist tag Jimmy Buffett.

 

Taking the time to tag all your music correctly, all tags, makes it much easier, and it really isn’t too time consuming.  Just sit down with a cold beverage, and tell everyone to leave you alone for an hour, put the headphones on, start some music playing, and get after it.

Tenzip’s got it pegged, when I did my tagging I was at abour 100,000 tracks, I sat down with a bottle of Jack, and a couple of good movies, and was don iun a bout 4 hours. Of course its easier if you alteady have the songs in floders based on albums because you can tag all the tracks in the same album at the same time.