Some time ago I noticed, that several of my audio files didn’t show up under the expected genre entry. I didn’t care too much as I navigate by folders most of the time. But recently I was curious to see what’s going on. To my surprise I found that all of the mp3 files oddly ending up under genres “Unknown” or “Unknownk” have proper id3 genre tag “Folk” (genre id 80).
I decided to make a test case as follows.
First I created several test files with genres “Folk” and “Jazz” using different id3 versions:
file artist album title track genre ID3-version
folk10.mp3 artist 1 album 1 title folk 10 Folk 1.0
folk11.mp3 artist 2 album 2 title folk 11 1 Folk 1.1
folk23.mp3 artist 3 album 3 title folk 23 01 Folk 2.3
folk24.mp3 artist 4 album 4 title folk 24 01 Folk 2.4
jazz10.mp3 artist 5 album 5 title jazz 10 Jazz 1.0
jazz11.mp3 artist 6 album 6 title jazz 11 1 Jazz 1.1
jazz23.mp3 artist 7 album 7 title jazz 23 01 Jazz 2.3
jazz24.mp3 artist 8 album 8 title jazz 24 01 Jazz 2.4
Next I formatted the fuze. Now I copied all files into the MUSIC folder on internal storage using MSC USB connection to my PC. Again the tag browsing is pretty strange for files tagged with genre “Folk” whereas all “Jazz” music files are in right place! This is what I get:
Genres Artists
Jazz
artist 5
artist 6
artist 7
artist 8
Unknown
artist 1
artist 2
Unknownk
artist 3
artist 4
Can somebody else confirm this bug?
How about other genres with similar issues?
Message Edited by ewelot on 11-13-2009 12:49 PM