Do enjoy driving your Ford (or other vehicle that has a Sync system □ ) The ‘unknown’ part should have disappeared. After a while you’re USB key is indexed and it should now display all Artists, Songs and Albums. Plug in your USB and in the Sync Media Options you will find a reset USB option. To finish up you need to let your Sync system recreate it’s index. %genre%\%albumartist% - %album%\%track% - %artist% - %title% I do not use it but if you’re smart and categorize your collection in Genre folders first mp3tag can read them as well with the following code: The only thing missing your sync can read is the Genre. That will take a while and then your tags are set. %albumartist% - %album%\%track% - %artist% - %title% So in my particular exampe I use the following format: Just by selecting all again and then using ALT+2 (which is convert filename to tag) you can read the folder and filename to create the tags again. Mine are in the Artist – Album folder and have the Track – Artist – Title Format. If you followed my advise it’s easy to set the tags. When done all ID3 tags will be removed and you can start settings them again. CTRL+A to select all files and rightclick > remove tag to remove all ID3 tags. Because you will remove all tags I recommend you leave your original mp3 folder for devices that can actually read ID3 tags and just create a copy of it. Now the reason that you specify this is that you will start removing all the tags from your mp3’s. Then you need to specify which mp3tags you will like to see removed. I can confirm in this case that version 2.3 ISO-8859-1 is working and I believe I read somewhere that Sync doesn’t support v2.4. You need to specify which tags it will write. You need to specify which tags it will read (I don’t see why you should not select them all). It’s free and rocks!įirst you need to set some options (tools > options) When you have prepared like that download mp3tag. Cause your Sync will not recognize the tag for the discnumber. You also need to make sure that multiple disc cd’s have the discnumber in the Albumtitle. When you use a structure like this it’s very easy to read the tags from the folder & filename. Mine looks like this: Artist – Albumtitle\Track – Artist – Songtitle. What I can advise you is that you place your tracks in a logical folder and file structure. In my particular case I used foobar to convert my flac collection to 320kbps mp3 (cause ofcourse the Sync System will not read flac). I’m not a 100% sure it’s true, and I also cannot tell you which tag versions it will recognize 100%. The last thing you need to know is that it will not recognize all tag versions. And It will not recognize the number of the disc (which again sucks bigtime). It will not recognize Albumartist (which is used a lot). It will only recognize a few tags: Track, Artist, Songtitle and Albumtitle. So what you need to know about the Sync system (with the exception of that it sucks □ ). All tracks could be found in the ‘unknown’ section of the USB index. In my case in about 50% of the cases (read tracks) it just wouldn’t recognize the Artist, Album and Genre. However the audio system (The Microsoft Sync Media system) really sucks when it comes to recognizing the ID3 tags you’ve so accurately set. I’m very satisfied with it, and enjoy driving it on a daily basis. The case: Since not too long I’m driving a very nice Ford Focus Titanium Wagon. I figured it would be nice to make an exception and write about it :-). However this particular problem took me some time (like WAY too long!!) to solve and I could not find any posts of other people with a real step-by-step solution. So I never tought I would be writing about my car on this blog.
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