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You need to use emplode to add a Codec tag to all your files so it knows what format they're in. Some old versions (probably pre-1.0 but I haven't checked) of emplode didn't put them in.



A majority of my mp3s seem to be in this state. Can I fix this globally with emptool?
Or, just manually add it to all my *1 files, and rebuild the db? Hey, I'll try that:

$ for foo in /drive[01]/fids/*1 ; do grep ^codec $foo || grep ^type=tune $foo && echo codec=mp3 >> $foo ; done

Then, rebuilt the db. Now, I can play all my mp3s. Yay.

There's probably an easier way to do this, but this way worked for me.