How do I(!) solve this tag problem with a portable player?

[matt_t]

I ripped my CDs to MP3 using CD ripper, all tagged with ID3v2.3.

I have a portable player (it's a UK store's own brand, so not much point giving make/model since no-one will have heard of it) which displays track info like this, with Album and Genre reversed:

Title: Suzanne
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: Folk
File[??!]: Songs of Leonard Cohen

Experiment showed it displays WMA tags like this as well.

The easiest workaround (I have contacted the manufacturers, but I'm not holding my breath!!) would seem to be to use ID Tag Update to reverse the Album and Genre fields. BUT - how does one do this? If you map A - B you can't also do B - A because B is now A, so the two end up the same! Hope you follow that.... :teufel8:

[matt_t]

Re: How do I(!) solve this tag problem with a portable player?

OK, I have answered my own question, although maybe there's a simpler way. Spoon??

Map

1. Genre -> Style
2. Album -> Genre
3. Style -> Album

Delete

1. Style


This is a bit like the farmer trying to take a wolf, a sheep and a cabbage across a river, isn't it? I never was any good at maths.........

[Spoon]

Re: How do I(!) solve this tag problem with a portable player?

I think you can map a to b and b to a as it remembers the start values, did you try it?

[matt_t]

Re: How do I(!) solve this tag problem with a portable player?

Tried it, and both end up the same rather than reversed.