I recently bought a Fuze (2 GB + 8GB SDHC) to use on Suse 10.1 Linux. I’ve updated the Fuze firmware to V01.01.22A.
I quickly discovered that the Fuze doesn’t display directory and file names, but ID3 data. I also discoverd the CDs I ripped with Bashee didn’t have ID3 data and show up as unknowns. So, found mutagen (python code that implements ID3 stuff) and wrote code to add the tags I thought would be important, e.g. (ignore TCON line for a moment):
tux:Dr. Demento= 30th Anniversary Collection (disc 1)> mid3v2 --list-raw *
Raw IDv2 tag info for 03. The Elements.mp3:
TCON(encoding=3, text=[u’57’])
TALB(encoding=3, text=[u’Dr. Demento= 30th Anniversary Collection (disc 1)‘])
TRCK(encoding=3, text=[u’03’])
TPE1(encoding=3, text=[u’Tom Lehrer’])
TIT2(encoding=3, text=[u’03. The Elements’])
Raw IDv2 tag info for 05. Charlie Brown.mp3:
TALB(encoding=3, text=[u’Dr. Demento= 30th Anniversary Collection (disc 1)‘])
TRCK(encoding=3, text=[u’05’])
TPE1(encoding=3, text=[u’The Coasters’])
TIT2(encoding=3, text=[u’05. Charlie Brown’])
Raw IDv2 tag info for 06. Dungeons and Dragons.mp3:
TALB(encoding=3, text=[u’Dr. Demento= 30th Anniversary Collection (disc 1)‘])
TRCK(encoding=3, text=[u’06’])
TPE1(encoding=3, text=[u’The Dead Alewives’])
TIT2(encoding=3, text=[u’06. Dungeons and Dragons’])
A file copied by itunes ages ago has:
tux:Sounds of the Isles> mid3v2 --list-raw *
Raw IDv2 tag info for 04. Let Love Guide Your Heart.mp3:
COMM(encoding=0, lang=‘eng’, desc=u’iTunNORM’, text=[u’ 0000192D 000019F8 0000E1A4 0000BDFE 00007A0A 000079F0 0000817F 000080E1 0001DC05 00004EE0’])
TCMP(encoding=0, text=[u’1’])
TPE1(encoding=0, text=[u’Torla, Gayle’])
TYER(encoding=0, text=[u’2002’])
TIT2(encoding=0, text=[u’Let Love Guide Your Heart’])
TENC(encoding=0, text=[u’iTunes v4.9.0.17’])
TRCK(encoding=0, text=[u’4/19’])
TPOS(encoding=0, text=[u’1/1’])
TALB(encoding=0, text=[u’Sounds of the Isles’])
COMM(encoding=0, lang=‘eng’, desc=u’iTunes_CDDB_IDs’, text=[u’19+957CE2ACB34B27EDE59206D31FC80BC6+2748326’])
TCON(encoding=0, text=[u’(80)'])
The itunes read file works, the ones I updated display unknown/unknown/track data when playing, and I don’t see what might be missing except for the genre (see thread Some MP3 files are not recognized by Fuze). So I added that TCON I said to ignore for a bit and that didn’t change things.
So, are there other ID3 tags that are a must have? A further oddness is that when I plugged the Fuze into Windows box, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Windows Explorer displays metadata when you right click a file and select Properties. However, the files I’m having trouble with didn’t have their metadata displayed. The properties popup opened, but the data was blank.
I’ll try dropping the leading 0 in TRCK and a few other things.
I just noticed the encoding=3 in my files. I better go learn what that’s about, If it’s character set stuff, it might be an ascii/utf-8 issue.
Yeah, yeah, I should be using MonkeyMedia or whatever, but that means setting up Samba or transferring several GB of data around to that laptop.
