Hey folks,
I’ve got an old Sandisk Sansa e280r. Just broke it out for the first time in a while. I deleted all songs on there loaded 4 gigs of mp3s on it. All songs are tagged with album, artists, title… When I started it up though, it refreshed the database as normal, but only 10% of the songs showed up. I went back and verified that the songs were in fact on the player, and they are.
Note, I did all the transfering of music using Windows Explorer and put all songs in the hidden Music folder as normal.
Why would songs not show up? Are there rules related to number of characters in a file name or tag? Are there certain characters in a file name or tag that aren’t supported?
Thanks!
@nullqwerty wrote:
Hey folks,
I’ve got an old Sandisk Sansa e280r. Just broke it out for the first time in a while. I deleted all songs on there loaded 4 gigs of mp3s on it. All songs are tagged with album, artists, title… When I started it up though, it refreshed the database as normal, but only 10% of the songs showed up. I went back and verified that the songs were in fact on the player, and they are.
Note, I did all the transfering of music using Windows Explorer and put all songs in the hidden Music folder as normal.
Why would songs not show up? Are there rules related to number of characters in a file name or tag? Are there certain characters in a file name or tag that aren’t supported?
Thanks!
It’s all ID3 tag-based, so if there is an ‘Unknown’ category in your lists on the player, you might find your missing songs in there. I’d download MP3TAG (free) and check and/or edit your tags. Your player is looking for ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 format tags. You can change this to the default in MP3Tag, open up your files (you can do it a folder at a time) and re-save the tags with the new format. You should probably do this with the files on your computer, then re-transfer the corrected ones over to the player
Alos look for and delete anything in the ‘Comments’ field of the tag. This can confuse the wee brain in your player as well as strange or foriegn characters.
It’s all ID3 tag-based, so if there is an ‘Unknown’ category in your lists on the player, you might find your missing songs in there. I’d download MP3TAG (free) and check and/or edit your tags. Your player is looking for ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 format tags. You can change this to the default in MP3Tag, open up your files (you can do it a folder at a time) and re-save the tags with the new format. You should probably do this with the files on your computer, then re-transfer the corrected ones over to the player
Alos look for and delete anything in the ‘Comments’ field of the tag. This can confuse the wee brain in your player as well as strange or foriegn characters.
It’s all ID3 tag-based, so if there is an ‘Unknown’ category in your lists on the player, you might find your missing songs in there. I’d download MP3TAG (free) and check and/or edit your tags. Your player is looking for ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 format tags. You can change this to the default in MP3Tag, open up your files (you can do it a folder at a time) and re-save the tags with the new format. You should probably do this with the files on your computer, then re-transfer the corrected ones over to the player
Also look for and delete anything in the ‘Comments’ field of the tag. This can confuse the wee brain in your player as well as strange or foriegn characters.
