Posted by dadiOH on 06/25/07 11:42

Duncan Di Saudelli wrote:
> Hello
>
> On my computer's hard drive under WinXP, I've a collection of about
> 4000 MP3s ripped from a variety of CDs and also downloaded from all
> sorts of sources. I'm trying to sort them out ready to transfer to
> (probably) a Creative Zen Vision M:60GB player, yet to be bought.
>
> I think some are tagged in ID3v1 and some are ID3v2. Some have
> album art associated, but most don't.
>
> When I use Winamp, all of the tracks have an associated
> artist|album|track name, which is fine.
> When I use Windows Media Player v10, loads of tracks are not
> associated with an artist or an album, hence the reason why I think
> there is a disparity between tagging methods - I'm assuming that
> Winamp/WMP10 are reading different tags.
>
> 1) How should I best go about making sure that commonality exists ?
> I want to *know* that all are tagged correctly in readiness for
> trnasferring to a player. Right now, I don't know whether to
> believe Winamp or WMP10.

Get an ID3 tagger.

Album art can only exist in ID3v2 tags. A tagger can be used to write
permissible data from ID3v1<>ID3v2 or to/from the file name.

What Winamp shows is configurable...
1. Winamp
2. Ctrl + P
3. Plugins, Input
4. Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder
5. Configure
6. Title Formatting

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