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(Note: All the music files referenced here were ripped from my CD's using one version of dbPoweramp or another. Currently I'm using 13.3 reference, and my FLAC codec is release 14. But some of the FLAC files were originally ripped using dbPoweramp 11. Not sure what FLAC codec version. The files were copied to the device directly using Windows Explorer.)
I have issue with my FLAC tags, or it may just be Creative being hosed. Anyhow, the issue is that when I add FLAC files to my player, the artist name shows up as "TIST=The Beatles" instead of just "The Beatles"If I copy MP3 files there, the "TIST=" doesn't show.
I tracked down a couple of threads on the creative forums about this, and this post:
Suggested it was an issue with the tag not being properly formatted as a VORBIS comment, but instead being an ID3 tag. It pointed to another thread here:
That claimed one way to fix it was using mp3Tag to re-write the tags. I couldn't figure out how to just use it to re-write the existing tags, as opposed to changing stuff and/or importing data from the internet. Which I don't want to do.
So I did some searching here I found this thread:
Based on that and comments I found from you here:
and here:
It seems like dbPoweramp is already writing the correct format. So first I confirmed that my setting for FLAC id tags were Vorbis Comments. (I had never touched the settings, but just in case.)
Then I tried running the ID Tag Update utility codec, with no options selected. Just trying to make sure they copied and re-written. Hopefully removing any issues that might be version related.
Unfortunately that didn't change a thing. The artist I tested was still showing up as "TIST =<artist name>."
I wondered if you had any other possible suggestions, and/or a contact with Creative who might know of a formatting issue or whatever. Other than that the tags work fine in both WinAMP and windows explorer. I'm going to try changing the ID3V2 Text encoding under FLAC from ANSI to Unicode-16 and re-doing the id tag update to see if that helps.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the length of the post.
(Note: All the music files referenced here were ripped from my CD's using one version of dbPoweramp or another. Currently I'm using 13.3 reference, and my FLAC codec is release 14. But some of the FLAC files were originally ripped using dbPoweramp 11. Not sure what FLAC codec version. The files were copied to the device directly using Windows Explorer.)
I have issue with my FLAC tags, or it may just be Creative being hosed. Anyhow, the issue is that when I add FLAC files to my player, the artist name shows up as "TIST=The Beatles" instead of just "The Beatles"If I copy MP3 files there, the "TIST=" doesn't show.
I tracked down a couple of threads on the creative forums about this, and this post:
Suggested it was an issue with the tag not being properly formatted as a VORBIS comment, but instead being an ID3 tag. It pointed to another thread here:
That claimed one way to fix it was using mp3Tag to re-write the tags. I couldn't figure out how to just use it to re-write the existing tags, as opposed to changing stuff and/or importing data from the internet. Which I don't want to do.
So I did some searching here I found this thread:
Based on that and comments I found from you here:
and here:
It seems like dbPoweramp is already writing the correct format. So first I confirmed that my setting for FLAC id tags were Vorbis Comments. (I had never touched the settings, but just in case.)
Then I tried running the ID Tag Update utility codec, with no options selected. Just trying to make sure they copied and re-written. Hopefully removing any issues that might be version related.
Unfortunately that didn't change a thing. The artist I tested was still showing up as "TIST =<artist name>."
I wondered if you had any other possible suggestions, and/or a contact with Creative who might know of a formatting issue or whatever. Other than that the tags work fine in both WinAMP and windows explorer. I'm going to try changing the ID3V2 Text encoding under FLAC from ANSI to Unicode-16 and re-doing the id tag update to see if that helps.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the length of the post.
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