I used Mp3tag also. Changed to ISO settings under Tools - Options - Tags - Mpeg - Write. After that, as jobec said: load the files and save.
Tyrion
Yes, I too was able to do this in Ubuntu 7.10. I used EasyTAG. I downloaded the latest version withe the synaptic package manager. Under Settings choose Prefence, one of the tabs is “ID3 Tag Settings”. Change the character set. Highlight every file whose tag you want set/rewritten, then hit the save button. (N.B. this does not update the timestamp for the file.) Then copy files to Sansa Clip. Sure enough artist, album, and songs are now properly ordered.
If you want genre to show up, then you will have to set the genre for each file. Highlighting a group, then setting the genre only sets the current selected file.
I copied the whole directory structure my ripper produced where artist is the upper directory, album subdirectory, and songs are files in the subdirectory. The Sansa Clip still finds all of the files OK. I found this better than dumping all music files into the MUSIC directory with no sub directories for two reasons:
1 it avoided name collisions on song names
2 I could delete whole albums without having to sort through hundredds of files.
Jim
Thanks Jim! this helped - ubuntu 8.04 here.
UPDATE: Actually, it didn’t help :(, the Clip still has the wrong order for the album tracks.
A possibly simpler alternative to EasyTag is eyeD3:
eyeD3 --set-encoding=latin1 --to-v2.3 --force-update [dir…]
This will change the encoding and also the ID3 version to 2.3 (reportedly, sansa supports up to 2.3).
In any case, this also doesn’t help! the album is still unsorted. It is played in the same order that Linux uses to copy it into the clip (the one shown with “ls -lf”).
My only working solution was to write a script to copy my music collection in alphabetical order into the clip.
Message Edited by ari on 07-11-2008 10:47 PM
Actually I just verify it against my Archos AV500…
The Clip (I had the latest firmware .29?)… sort by track number… that is…
if you are looking for Artist, Album, title… titles will display by track number unless they do not have that information so it will then go alphabetically
hope this helps
Does the Clip read the Disc number tag? Tracks are out of order for me with audiobooks that span multiple discs.
Is it something that will be fixed in a future firmware release? We’re told that folders are bad and ID tags are the way to go. So I think the Clip should read the disc tag.
Disc number tag will be fixed in a future release. It will be up to two months away.
-Sansafix
@sansafix wrote:
Disc number tag will be fixed in a future release. It will be up to two months away.
-Sansafix
No hope for actual folder sorting with this upcoming release either, I surmise, seeing how all of the too-many threads clamoring for this feature have been studiously ignored? Can we at least know WHY? Folder sorting isn’t so hard to implement: less, actually, than the special (and very good) treatment you have given to audiobooks and podcasts. Is it really a case, as another of your customers hypothetized in another thread, of “we think ID3 tags are better, and we’ll convert you by force if necessary”?
I’ve offered three mp3 players to friends in less than a year, and all three would have been Sansa clips … if it had a “folder view” option. I’m sorry, but none of those friends would have been interested in learning all the ID3 tags tricks people keep exchanging on this forum, most often to palliate the lack of a folder view: not everyone is a computer geek, and not everyone’s dearest wish is to become one.
Message Edited by Sinocelt on 07-24-2008 09:43 AM
I’ll put a real life case on the table. I’ve just bought two mp3 players. The first one as a birthday present for my girlfriend, and, a few weeks later, one for myself. I spent hours reading reviews and opinions, including this forum. The result, now my girlfriend owns a brand new pink mp3 from another brand, while I’m a proud user of a Sansa Clip. The difference… Folders. My girlfriend was used to folders, it would have been a nightmare trying to explain her the benefits of ID3 tagging. On the other hand, me, as an engineer, I’m enjoying with this new approach of exploring music.
While I would like to see support for browsing by folders, I am very grateful and appreciate that the disc number tag will be fixed. Thank you Sansafix!
@sansafix wrote:
Disc number tag will be fixed in a future release. It will be up to two months away.
-Sansafix
I just updated my Clip firmware to 01.01.29 and it still does not recognize the “Disc Number” tag. Was this enhancement not included in this release, or was it and mine just doesn’t work? 
Thanks!
I have a 2GB clip with 01.01.29 and have problems with linux, msc mode and ogg files. While the ID3 tracks are correct, albums play in an order that’s consistently inconsistent wiht every album:
2-1-3-4-5…
Everytime!
c
@djfake wrote:
I have a 2GB clip with 01.01.29 and have problems with linux, msc mode and ogg files. While the ID3 tracks are correct, albums play in an order that’s consistently inconsistent wiht every album:
2-1-3-4-5…
Everytime!
c
See this post in the Fuze forum. It’s referring to MP3 files, but I think the same applies to Ogg. There are know issues with Ogg that Sandisk is working on.
Thanks Skinjob, that’s absolutely it. If I set Easytag to use IDv2 and ISO8559-1 as the default, the tracks play in the correct order when loaded on my Clip. Please note that I do have the latest firmware, 1.01.30A.
Message Edited by djfake on 10-08-2008 05:46 PM
