Speaking of Macs and what not

[Darth Ed]

OK, then your MP3 files don't have ID3 tags. I'm not sure what you are using to rip your CDs into MP3s, but you might want to switch to a program which looks up the CD in CDDB and creates ID3 tags automatically. FYI, iTunes for Windows does this, as do most MP3 rippers, I thought, but clearly whatever you are using does not.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  OK, then your MP3 files don't have ID3 tags.

It's either that or you've let a woman use a computer.  Or both.  Neither of which I recommend.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  OK, then your MP3 files don't have ID3 tags.

It's either that or you've let a woman use a computer.  Or both.  Neither of which I recommend. [/b]

Flawd?
 
 Dad of Flawd?
 
   :mad:

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  OK, then your MP3 files don't have ID3 tags. I'm not sure what you are using to rip your CDs into MP3s, but you might want to switch to a program which looks up the CD in CDDB and creates ID3 tags automatically. FYI, iTunes for Windows does this, as do most MP3 rippers, I thought, but clearly whatever you are using does not.

i really dont think its the ID3 tags.  I mean, it just doesnt show up on her finder right.
 
    she also says that it happens sometimes with files OTHER than MP3s as well.  
 
   what does that ~1 mean anywho?

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  i really dont think its the ID3 tags.  I mean, it just doesnt show up on her finder right.
 
    she also says that it happens sometimes with files OTHER than MP3s as well.  
 
   what does that ~1 mean anywho?

~1 at one time was used to cut off long file names, for instance when only file names of 8 characters could be used it would be called sonick~1.mp3 rather than sonickteam2.mp3, so for some reason the file names on her mac are being truncated, sounds like something is wrong with her mac, or is it a really old mac?

[godsshoeshine]

not 100% sure, but i would guess that winamp would rename the file Narc.mp3 when you put the id3 tags on there. that's what itunes does, at least. i would suggest that the above posts are correct, and getting itunes or some other program that rips, applies id3 cds and then burns it all for you in one program will fix everything.
 
 i never had a problem with mp3s across operating systems, even on itunes 1 for os9

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by pollard:
  sounds like something is wrong with her mac  

i am going with that...
 
   cause she says that SOME of the CDs i gave her work (titles coming in correctly), and some dont.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  i would suggest that the above posts are correct, and getting itunes or some other program that rips, applies id3 cds and then burns it all for you in one program will fix everything.
 

i mainly, download my mp3s from the net from many different sources, along with ripping them from CDs.  i use band websites, paysites, peer to peer, etc......so then it would be unlikely that ALL the mp3s on a given CD would be lacking ID3 tags....
 
   seems like such a silly thing, but i cant get it.

[Darth Ed]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
 i really dont think its the ID3 tags.  I mean, it just doesnt show up on her finder right.

That's beside the point. When the MP3s are imported into iTunes, they will be renamed IF THEY HAVE ID3 TAGS. The names as they appear in the Finder are meaningless.
 
   

she also says that it happens sometimes with files OTHER than MP3s as well.

That's because you're burning Windows discs and then trying to read them on a Mac. Depending upon the application used to burn the CD-ROM and/or the CD-ROM's format, you'll see things like that. Try ISO9660 format. Or better yet, do what I suggested and just install iTunes on Windows. You can see which of your MP3 files don't have ID3 tags and edit them, and you can use iTunes to burn the CD.
 
   

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by pollard:
  sounds like something is wrong with her mac  

i am going with that...[/b]

Then you are going in the wrong direction, dude.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  IF THEY HAVE ID3 TAGS. The names as they appear in the Finder are meaningless.
 

so of all the places that i have downloaded music, i have managed to not get ONE single mp3 containining an ID3 tag? seems rather improbable.
 
   

That's because you're burning Windows discs and then trying to read them on a Mac.[/b]

yes, i know this. thats the problem i am trying to fix.
 
 

 Try ISO9660 format.[/b]

good idea, dont know what that is, but I'll check when i get home.
 
 
 

 Or better yet, do what I suggested and just install iTunes on Windows.[/b]

and sit there and rip all of my mp3s all over again?  i dont want Itunes, nor do i believe i need iTunes to rip all of my mp3s to be able to read them in Itunes.  thats definitely not it.
 
 
    I'll try ISO9660 ans see what happens.
 
 thanks!

[godsshoeshine]

you wouldn't need to rerip with itunes, just edit the id3 tags as needed. which is the problem you're trying to fix

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  you wouldn't need to rerip with itunes, just edit the id3 tags as needed. which is the problem you're trying to fix

every single one of them?
 
    thats a waste of damn time.  forget that
 
  she can live with the ~1