Hi everyone im new
so i am transferring songs into my chocolate but the names of the song (when finished transferring) are sometimes what i have on WINDOWS media player and sometimes random letters of the file of the song.
I would like to have my music on my chocolate the names i give them not some random crap....PLEASE HELP
THANKS A BUNCH
in short how can i format the songs so the names display correctly!!
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titans4ever Posts: 5
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:19 am
It took me some time to figure this out myself. The name it looks for first is by the title of song in the properties of the mp3 itself.
To edit this, right click on the mp3 and select properties. Go to summary and add the title of the song the way you would like it displayed so you can find it easier.
cheungy Posts: 4
Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:27 am
THANK YOU SO MUCH U OWN
cheungy Posts: 4
Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:13 am
crapppp its still only working sometimes idk whats wrong
i clicked properties and changed items in the summary but songs still go wacked sometimes
cheungy Posts: 4
Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:26 am
i have to switch it to advance btw in properties (summary)
smthomas66 Posts: 3
Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:30 pm
You have two options I noticed that worked to fix what's called your ID3 tags (the code that is inside the file that allows the songs to sort into nice folders like title, artist, genre, etc..) First of all the Chocolate does have a software glitch where ID3 version 2 tags are not compatible for .mp3 songs with the player. A google search for ID3 kill will bring up a small free software package where you can run it through your music folder telling it to kill the ID3 V2 tags and then when you put the songs back on 90% of them will be fixed. Not sure why the rest does not work. That's if you want to keep all your songs at .mp3.
The better option is to download a free mp3 ripper like media monkey and turn all your files you want to sync into .wma (if you like .mp3 better you don't have to delete your .mp3 files. Just rip all the songs you want to put on the player to .wma and have them placed in a seperate folder. Then you will have the songs in .wma and .mp3 and can keep them or delete what you don't need anymore after you run a sync). The Chocolate was built to support this format better and when you put your music on in .wma 100% of the songs will be sorted properly. I did option 1 and then tried option 2 and converting to .wma just for the player was the best option and really doesn't take that long.
smthomas66 Posts: 3
Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:38 pm
Oh, one more thing. The player does not support files that run over 200 kbps (kilo bits per second). This is the quality of the file. If you try to sync say 30 songs and a few don't work this is probably the issue. If you have files that are 200-320 kbps running them through a rip program at 128 kbps will fix this problem as well. 128 kbps is just fine for listening to music on an mp3 player and an added benefit is that the file will compress from something like 5-6 megabites to somewhere in the 3 megabite range.
That means much more music will fit on your 1GB or 2GB chip. 100-200 more I would say.
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