I know this is not directly related to the car player, for me however it is. In preparation for the arrival of the unit I am trying to find a resource which could explain methods for extracting MP3 file info. Anyone know?

Have a look at www.id3.org.
Specifically http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html has a description of the ID3 tags that are often added to mp3 files.
and http://www.id3.org/mp3frame.html has a description of the mp3 files themselves.
Chris Wise

There's also my code fragement from the mp3mobile project which will read ID3 tags: see http://utter.chaos.org.uk/~altman/mp3mobile/

Hugo

Does the currently released player software support ID3v2 tags?

Does the currently released player software support ID3v2 tags?

The short answer is YES.

The long answer is:

The player software doesn't even use ID3 tags at all, it just goes by its own internal database. The Emplode loader software will fill the database with whatever tags (V1 or V2) the MP3s happen to have, but that's only at the initial time you drag the songs onto Emplode. After that, the tags are ignored and you're looking at the player's database rather than the tags.

Note: Version 1.0 of the software has a bug where unusually long V2 fields will screw up the database. This has been fixed in 1.01 which will be released shortly (maybe today?).

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Tony Fabris

I'd just like to raise the old chestnut of inconsistent ID3v1/v2 tags.

If you rip your music with an ID3v2 ripper (e.g. MusicMatch), and then edit the tags with a program that doesn't understand ID3v2 (e.g. Winamp), the contents of the v1 and v2 tags will be out of sync.

This causes problems when importing music into emplode or emptool, since they use the v2 tags in preference.

The solution: Use tag editing software that supports ID3v2 tags.


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg