Hello,
I transferred several mp3s ripped from CDs with spoken text to my N900. Now all these tracks are shown in the albums list as "Unknown Album" by "Unknown Artist" - yes, separated by CD, so at least I can figure out which is wich by the number of tracks in each of the "Unknown albums".
Now all I want to do is edit that information, entering album title and Artist name, but i can't figure out how.
How can i do this on the N900?
thanks, Ben
Hello,
I transferred several mp3s ripped from CDs with spoken text to my N900. Now all these tracks are shown in the albums list as "Unknown Album" by "Unknown Artist" - yes, separated by CD, so at least I can figure out which is wich by the number of tracks in each of the "Unknown albums".
Now all I want to do is edit that information, entering album title and Artist name, but i can't figure out how.
How can i do this on the N900?
thanks, Ben
You can't do it from within Media Player. There is a program called Mussorgsky which allows you to edit the tags - it's still in extras-devel though.
Hello,
I transferred several mp3s ripped from CDs with spoken text to my N900. Now all these tracks are shown in the albums list as "Unknown Album" by "Unknown Artist" - yes, separated by CD, so at least I can figure out which is wich by the number of tracks in each of the "Unknown albums".
Now all I want to do is edit that information, entering album title and Artist name, but i can't figure out how.
How can i do this on the N900?
thanks, Ben
Sorry but I don't think you can do that with the current software on the N900
Probably easier on your laptop/desktop with something like mediamonkey/tagnrename etc or even windows if its a few files...
To me this is one of a few instances where the N900 falls somewhat short of being an actual computer.
Anyhow, precisely which is the information to edit or the software to use on a windows PC in order for the Maemo mediaplayer to find it? Would i have to put that into the metadata? Because e.g. entering an album title into Win MP will keep that info only there, not attached to the file, so it gets lost once the file is moved...
thanks, Ben
can anyone help, all of a sudden my n900 has started displaying about 15 tracks just saying "test" and unknown artist andi can't seem to get rid of them and they don't show up in my file manager
anybody have any ideas
Anyhow, precisely which is the information to edit or the software to use on a windows PC in order for the Maemo mediaplayer to find it? Would i have to put that into the metadata? Because e.g. entering an album title into Win MP will keep that info only there, not attached to the file, so it gets lost once the file is moved...
The metadata used by the MediaPlayer is readed from _inside_ the files (id3 in mp3, headers in OGG, and so on). Use an editor that writes into the file (usual media players have their own dbs and don't modify the files themselves). I don't know on windows, on linux programs like "easytag" make a very decent work.
Thanks a lot, finally, this is exactly the information that i was looking for!
So to enable Maemo Media Player to find info about all your audio files all you need is an id3 tag editor (one that works on windoze is here: http://www.nch.com.au/tageditor/)
You can't do it from within Media Player. There is a program called Mussorgsky which allows you to edit the tags - it's still in extras-devel though.
This program lets you edit the album art in a nice way, but when I try to edit the metadata info, all the fields are greyed out, and I cannot change any of them.
Any idea how to make it work? is there a different way of editing these? maybe even from the command line? is it possible to access the id3 tags somehow using a simple text editor?
