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Prob importing id3 tags, and other (n00by?) issues

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SlowMo

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hi,

sorry, if this was there alrady, but i´m not a very good searcher, and it didn´t turn out any results for me...

erm, i got Ver. 2.1, my md is the mz-mh900

asus a7n8x-e deluxe

athlon xp 2800

2x512mb ram

radeon 9200, 256mb

Hoontech adc&dac2000 (=audiocard, with external 19" converterbox)

usb 2.0 deactivated, due to external hard drive issues..

too much sofware to list (lazy...)

well, the prob is, sometimes when i import files to the library, he doesn´t get the tag, and takes the filename instead, which is very annoying, because of " _ " instead of space, and crappy long filenames with the artist, the album, releasedate and other stuff, that i have to delete, renaming, in order to get readable tracknames on my md display.

kinda strange, because it´s totally unreproduceable, just happens on single files, sometimes on whole albums, somtimes only partly, somtimes everything´s fine.

also occurs on *.m3u files.

-> Bug?

or what, i have no idea..?

other prob: ss drops occasionally, when encoding&transferring mp3 to the minidisc, i can´t state a reason. got that prob since i optimized the system perfomance for background services (imprtant tweak for me, because i´m producing music, and without the tweak, when cpu gets busy, the soundcard driver doesn´t get the needed cpu time, and playback glitches..)

but i can´t tell if it was ther before, and just didn´t happen.

i read somewhere, that the k-lite codec pack (which i use) produces such probs, what is it with that ? -i´d like to keep it, it´s much better than nimo, and the player is handsome too. perhaps there are alternatives, i don´t know about ?

the next thing is, i´ve got some recorded mixtapes from the radio, recorded with a "old fashioned" sharp md without those lp ´n stuff, and i would really love having them on my pc, but when i try to import it from my md, it "pretends" importing it, showing up a progress and stuff, but it finishes much too fast (it has to transfer those 180 mb old fashioned md audio through that usb 1.1, which should take a while...), and when it finishes, no file shows up in my library.

is it simply not possible, due to "sony sucks" or am i just too stupid to get it done ?

hope you can help me, thanx in advance,

mo.

-erm, and merry chrismas...

P.S. : luckily, they´ve stopped that crappy ish with the tiny proprietary mini headphone-plug, where no other headphones would ever fit in without serious soldering, the original ones don´t fit in my ears, it really hurts to wear them, and the cable´s too short, because i´m rather tall.

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ok, i know now, that its not possible to import "classic" recordings.

and the "dropping doesn´t occur on my fathers notebook (which i currently use..)

but what about the id3 tag importin issue ????

i´ve upgraded to SS 2.3, and it´s still there, the only change is, that i can tell (while importing) if it´s gonna work or not, because if it doesn´t, it takes much longer to import those files, than if it works.

possibly my desktop is too fast to notice a differece (compared to the notebook)

any help would be appreciated.. rolleyes.gif .

thx, mo.

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SS's ID3 importing is rather dismal. The best solution I've found yet is to retain my rather old habit of being extremely anal-retentive about all files being tagged properly with both V1 and V2 tags.

MP3BookHelper is the most versatile tagger I've found yet [after using many since about 1998] and it's open source [i.e. free]. See http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net to download it.

Among important things to note:

* Make sure that both the V1 and V2 tags are present. SS seems to randomly pick which one gets used [which sometimes means truncated titles].

* Make sure track numbers are simply "1" or "01" and not "01/12" for example with V2 tags. The "/12" messes up SS and it will not pick up the track numbers properly, even if V1 tags are present with the simple "1" track number included.

* If you're using Sony's mp3 converter tool, putting the tracks you want to import into a folder named with the album title ensures that SS imports the files into an album with that name, rather than gobbledygook or simply "imported files".

And no, you can't digitally transfer standard MDs. At least - not without a home deck with optical output. You would be better off recording the tracks on your PC by analogue means than going through a second pass of encoding with your HiMD.

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