Posted by: sjthomp
Importing ID3v1, not v2 - 18/03/2007 15:18
I just noticed that when I import mp3s, only the ID3v1 info is importing, even though there are ID3v2 tags as well. If remove the v1 tags before importing, I get no tag info imported at all.
I used to get v2 tags as normal. Recently I installed Windows Vista on my PC, so I had to reinstall Emplode, EAC (which creates the tags while ripping) and Tag&Rename (which does some post-rip tag tweaking).
I'm using Emplode 2.0, which is the same version I used before when it worked right.
Any help would be appreciated.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Importing ID3v1, not v2 - 18/03/2007 17:22
I believe you are running into
this problem.
Posted by: sjthomp
Re: Importing ID3v1, not v2 - 18/03/2007 19:52
Okay, I figured it out. After some experimenting, I found that I could fix it in Tag&Rename. The v2 tags looked fine in T&R, and in other programs like Winamp, but they weren't being read by Emplode. After playing around with the T&R settings, I found that if I unchecked the option to "Write Unicode data into ID3v2 tags" then the v2 tags were fine in Emplode as well.
I don't know what Unicode data is, but Emplode doesn't like it.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Importing ID3v1, not v2 - 19/03/2007 15:40
Unicode does not specify an encoding method, and the most common encoding method (UTF-8) isn't two-bytes per character: each character will be encoded as either 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes. The next most common (UTF-16), will encode characters as either 2 or 4 bytes.
And, while we're talking about it, "extended ASCII" is kind of a generic term. It only specifies an 8-bit encoding where characters 0 through 127 are the same as ASCII (which is a 7-bit encoding), but it doesn't say anything about what characters 128 through 255 are. The most common are probably MS-Windows' "Code Page 1252" and ISO-8859-1, also known as "Latin-1", which encode mostly Western European characters there. Other "extended ASCII" sets exist for other sets of languages.
Posted by: jbauer
Re: Importing ID3v1, not v2 - 19/03/2007 21:56
I've been having this problem forever. I edit the IDv3 tags SO CAREFULLY in WinAmp, then drag and drop em into emplode only to get NO TAG!
Can't find any setting within WinAmp that fixes it...
I'd prefer not to use another program to get it to work. Any advice?
Ok, tried it in jemplode - works like a charm. It's empeg only...
- Thanx
- Jon