Music Juke Box can't do

[wjohn]

I created a bunch of MP3's and stored them on e:\Music\mixed.

Under Setup I selected e:\Music\mixed as the import folder.

Now what do I do? Searching through the forum I saw mention of Tags, but have no idea what they are and what to do about them.

I used EasyCD Creator to create the MP3's and they play fine in Windows Media Player.

Wow, does Sage need a manual badly!!!

Thanks,

Wolfgang

[kny3twalker]

use music match to tag the music
it is very easy and they have a nice library
there are also free tools if you do not want to pay the 20 dollars for the plus version with tagging

[wjohn]

Originally posted by kny3twalker
use music match to tag the music
it is very easy and they have a nice library
there are also free tools if you do not want to pay the 20 dollars for the plus version with tagging

What do these tags do and are they a must for Sage to work? Is there any documentation or help on how to get Sage to play MP3 files?

Thanks,

[nielm]

Originally posted by wjohn
What do these tags do and are they a must for Sage to work? Is there any documentation or help on how to get Sage to play MP3 files?

ID3 tags are a mechanism for embedding track information (artist/album/genre/track) into the MP3 file so that players can display this info no matter what the file is called. It is used by Winamp and Media player to generate the 'media database' where you can see all you media sorted by whatever means you want!

Most MP3 rippers support the generation of these tags when the file is ripped from CD using on-line databases such as cddb.org or freedb.org.

Sage uses these ID3 tags exclusively to find out what a mp3 file contains (it ignores the file name), so when using the default skin, if your MP3 files do not have these tags, they will not be filed in the correct artist/album folders in the Sage jukebox

If there is an image embedded in the ID3 tag, Sage will also use that to display album art.

The MLBdude2 skin (in the Customisations area) has a folder/filename based music jukebox that may not need these tags.

[wjohn]

Originally posted by nielm
ID3 tags are a mechanism for embedding track information (artist/album/genre/track) into the MP3 file so that players can display this info no matter what the file is called. It is used by Winamp and Media player to generate the 'media database' where you can see all you media sorted by whatever means you want!

Most MP3 rippers support the generation of these tags when the file is ripped from CD using on-line databases such as cddb.org or freedb.org.

Sage uses these ID3 tags exclusively to find out what a mp3 file contains (it ignores the file name), so when using the default skin, if your MP3 files do not have these tags, they will not be filed in the correct artist/album folders in the Sage jukebox

If there is an image embedded in the ID3 tag, Sage will also use that to display album art.

The MLBdude2 skin (in the Customisations area) has a folder/filename based music jukebox that may not need these tags.

Thank you for your enlightening response. So it sounds that even without the tags I should be able to play the files? However, I can't get anything to show up. Sage really needs a manual that explains how to play MP3 files (among other things).

[erics]

Originally posted by wjohn
Sage really needs a manual that explains how to play MP3 files (among other things).

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...&threadid=6609