Posted by: jbauer
How to fix genre tags... - 09/06/2006 23:03
I just set up Media Connect on the XBox 360. Very cool, but I can tell that some of my genre tags are screwy. I want to fix the tags on my empeg.
I have my playlists set up as follows:
Genre -> Artist -> Album
What I want to do is to highlight all of the songs in all of the albums in the entire genre playlists, highlight, set the genre, and sync.
I can't figure out how to select every song in a genre. Does it make sense what I'm trying to do? I must be missing something easy...
- Thanx
- Jon
Posted by: tanstaafl.
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 09/06/2006 23:17
I can't figure out how to select every song in a genre.Here I was, all set to be helpful and explain how easy it was to select all the songs in a genre with emplode 2.0, when I re-read your post and realized you wanted it for some kind of X-Box thingie.
I don't suppose your X-Box works with emplode, does it?
tanstaafl.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 10/06/2006 00:18
I know that in Jemplode, you can highlight a playlist, and then do a "Change Color" thingy on it, theoretically (if I recall correctly), color-tagging everything that lies beneath that tree level. But once you've done that, I don't know what good that will do you. It might make songs easier to select in the "all tracks" screen, but I don't know if you can sort on color, or select all colored tracks, or what. I'm out of town without my empeg so I can't try any of these ideas myself.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 10/06/2006 01:54
Do you have the mp3s on your pc with incorrect tags already ? if you do it would be easier to fix them on the pc then re-upload to the empeg.
Posted by: jbauer
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 10/06/2006 02:57
Ha! Actually, I deleted them on my hard drive with the intention of fixing the tags on the empeg! Didn't realize that this would be complicated.
- Jon
Posted by: msaeger
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 10/06/2006 05:18
I would download the tracks then fix the tags and then reload the empeg.
Posted by: jbauer
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 10/06/2006 13:31
I ripped a CD with EAC and LAME, edited the tags with Winamp, and then tried to copy to my empeg using emplode. Tags don't import. Must be Winamp...
Need to do more experimentation.
- Jon
Posted by: tfabris
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 11/06/2006 02:03
Didn't someone else report problems with winamp 5's tags?
Posted by: FireFox31
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 11/06/2006 11:33
On the computer, a tag editing program (Tag&Rename recommended) can tag all the genres in your genre playlist in about three clicks and 15 seconds. Highly recommended.
When cleaning my tags, my empeg found bad-data tags that neither Winamp or Tag&Rename could find. Easily fixed by dropping the MP3 in Notepad and trimming the bad data off the end of the file. Do a windows search on *.mp3 looking inside the files for "Brava". MusicMatch Jukebox, I believe, put loads of bad data at the end of every file it encoded. That'll teach me to download MP3s off the Internet...
I've found my MP3s are quite resilient to hacking in Notepad, allowing me to trim off long silences at the end of songs, etc. You can kind of tell where the frame starts and ends, just select and delete.
Posted by: Bernz
Re: How to fix genre tags... - 13/06/2006 22:42
I'm pretty sure that if the ID3 V2.x tags contain "non-standard" parts, emplode will get confused and not parse anything for that file, when you're uploading.
What I do now is clear the existing ID3 stuff, and re-gen it all. There's a fantastic, free program for this:
http://www.id3-tagit.de/Only possible downside is that it requires dot-net framework 1.1.