SLVR & mp3

[orbscureDDJ]

Evenin' all

I have a SLVR within which I've inserted a brand new SanDisk 512k memory card. When I attach the USB cable to my computer, I am able to drag and drop suitably tagged 128kbps mp3 files into the memory cards audio directory. However, when I access these files via the onboard Digital Audio Player and try and view the tracks via the "artist" & "album" menus nothing is visable. Only when I access the "songs" are all the uploaded tracks visable.

Am I doing something really silly? I have read the booklet but there is nothing there that offers any reasonable suggestions...

Thanks in advance,

Pete

[roncito]

try the song option on the same player if still dont show format the memory card and re-write mp3 again

[bubble.tea]

Here's a thought. Add the mp3's to the flash card by using a flash card reader....i.e. use the transflash adapter and stick into an sd card reader/writer.

see if that changes anything?

with the DAP...is there a place to select WHERE you are searching for songs?

[orbscureDDJ]

Thanks for the prompt feedback

try the song option on the same player if still dont show format the memory card and re-write mp3 again

...the tracks only show up under the >song option on the DAP. However, I have found by trawing through many SLVR posts on the forum here that when I create a playlist on WinAmp and save the playlist file to the same directory as each album, the >playlist option on the DAP lists the album and tracks in the correct order. There is still nothing listed under >artists or >albums though...

Here's a thought. Add the mp3's to the flash card by using a flash card reader....i.e. use the transflash adapter and stick into an sd card reader/writer. see if that changes anything? with the DAP...is there a place to select WHERE you are searching for songs?

...this is the way I've been doing it. I've tried using the USB and also via MPT (both far toooo slowwww) but as I have an onboard card reader on my PC I've been copying the mp3's directly to the card. The DAP menu options are:

>playlist (all five playlists are listed)
>artits (no artists found)
>albums (no albums found)
>songs (all the songs are listed but in no particular order)
>genres (no genres found)
>help (more about navigation)
>about (v05.00.15)

...all very strange...

Thanks again all...

[bubble.tea]

maybe you have to manually create the album/artist list?

[orbscureDDJ]

maybe you have to manually create the album/artist list?

...do you mean create sub-directories with the audio directory called artist & album?

Thanks for the continued input anyway...

[bubble.tea]

dude....I have no idea...just pulling options outta my ***.

artist/album/genre all have to do with the mp3 file tag right? So I'm wondering if your mp3's tags just aren't proper? Maybe that's what's "losing" the dap?

sorry man., I never really delved this hard into mp3 shizznit and the dap.

[geoffp]

The only way I've found to get the DAP to respond correctly, is to rip CD's in RealPlayer to mp3, and use the web connection to fill in the album title, artist and genre etc. I think that all that stuff is included in the mp3 file. How you include it after the event - I haven't a clue, sorry.

[bubble.tea]

you just right-click on the actual mp3 in your winamp playlist

It's called an ID3 tag

[Schwaby]

bump. I have the same problem. Tags look fine in winamp but don't work in the DAP on the phone. A few do, however, and they are using the same tags as the ones that are not, so I am really confused about it.

any help? Thanks

[Kaseryn]

As a side note, i've found the phone to be a bit picky with some mp3's.. not sure if it's vbr is isnt likeing, not bothered anyway as you can just encode to mp4 which all seem to play fine and are probably a bit less lossy per mb..