![]() Two books show up in Audiobooks under their right name. After running them all through Kid3 I copied them to my SansaClip+. ![]() It has been working flawlessly for a year but yesterday I downloaded 4 mp3 books. I have been using Kid3.app to tag audiobooks downloaded from my library’s Overdrive.(I found this suggestion on blog) I check each book after downloading to my Mac and make sure the tracks are tagged as Audiobook, numbered and titled. OK, I orignated this thread and am back for a second round. Changing them to ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 should make them visible. I suspect the Unknowns are ID3v2.4, which has been around for some time now despite SanDisk’s indifference. If they are, you’ll need to do MTP for those. You can’t touch them (and neither can MC Hammer.) But if your books are not expiring on the Sansa, great. The codes I’m talking about are hidden from the user and sent via MTP. Call me old-school, I prefer reading (ebooks included).īut if you can get books from Overdrive, put them on your computer, send them to the Sansa via MSC and still have them play without expiring…go for it. I don’t use Overdrive, though I’ve looked up a lot of stuff about it. Using that option also makes everying ID3v2.3 ISO-9959-1 because I set that as the default. The reason to do that is that Sansa is stupid: it will play 1, 11, 12, 13…etc…before 2. One thing I do with mp3tag is go to Tools/Auto-Numbering Wizard/ and choose the Leading Zeroes option. You might check to see if ripping them with iTunes will tag them automatically, which would save you some typing time–but iTunes does ID3v2.2. You can highlight all the files in the folder and put Artist (author) Album (book) etc. If you take Audiobooks from CDs, rip them with whatever you want and run them through mp3tag with the (Tools/Options/Tags/Mpeg) Write default as ID2.3 ISO-8859-1. Is it best before you do the transfer to check them with mp3tag? However, if I add the information about the tracks before transferring them, should I get proper tags that the Sansa Clip+ can read?īy the way, I have had the experience that sometimes Overdrive books are not properly tagged and end up in the Unknown folder. I just created the subfolder of Audiobooks by that name, using Windows Explorer, and copied the tracks into it. I did not add anything for the Rendsburg - Genesis book. If I use a tool like fre:ac to do the ripping, there is the opportunity to add information about the tracks like title, artist, album, etc. However, I would like to have your advice for the times in the future that I rip audiobooks on CDs to my computer and then download them to my clip. For the present book, perhaps I shouldn’t take further action because it currently is the only one under the designation Unknown and it does play in order. And, as you say, it is better to stay in that mode for the sake of the books you download using Overdrive. :manvery-happy: When I switch to MSC mode, the reason I don’t see anything under the various columns in mp3tag, like Filename, Path, Tag, etc, is that all my books were loaded into the Sansa using MTP mode. If you can put in ID3v2.3 tags, it’s probably easier to navigate via Audiobooks. So the tags might look fine to your computer, which is much smarter than the Sansa, and still come up Unknown on the unit.įor some reason Sansa can only handle ID3v2.2 and its favorite, ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 (The ISO is the way Windows, rather than Mac, renders the alphabet.) That’s why you set ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 as the default for MP3tag to Write. The Sansa can’t read ID3v1 or ID3v2.4–the oldest and newest tag versions. Unfortunately tags are not completely standardized: there are lots of versions of ID3 tags. Unknown means the player can’t read the tags or they’re not there. The books sent over via MTP will be invisible when you switch to MSC. Your computer can only see one mode at a time, MTP or MSC. But before you switch, take the books off. This lets your computer see the Sansa as two regular old disc drives, and lets MP3tag work its magic. Meanwhile, if you own these Audiobooks, you can switch the player (Settings/System Settings/USB) to MSC mode. You just can’t fix them on the unit itself. If you’re stuck using MTP, you should still be able to fix them on the computer and then send them to the Sansa. MP3tag can’t get to those files because the WMP interface is in the way. If you got the audiobooks from your library, you may need to stay in MTP because Overdrive (the main library software) sends hidden codes–unlocking the files till they expire–via that Windows Media Player interface. You need to take the Unknown books off the player, fix the tags on the computer and then send them back over.Īt the moment, you can’t fix them directly on the player because you are connected to the player in MTP mode, which goes by way of sometimes mysterious processes using software built into Windows Media Player.
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