Showing posts with label MP3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MP3. Show all posts

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Setting ID3 tags for Sansa SanDisk audiobooks that preserve track order across multiple disk

BB and I have Sansa SanDisk players that we use to listen to audiobooks.  Most audio books come on multiple disk each with multiple tracks so I set the ID3 tags on the individual track mp3 files to preserve the track order throughout the book.  Turns out it's a bit tricky as the SanDisk is rather picky about its treatment of ID3 tags.

Here's what I do.

Use easytag.

 The key settings are:
  • ID3v2.3 tags
  • Western charset
What I think is going on is that the Sansa Sansdisk doesn't like anything but ID3v2.3 tags and the Western charset.

Also set


Key is track field 3 digits.

What I think is going on is that with audio books the number of tracks is large and the easytag defaults of 2 digits create bogus ID3 tags.

Attempt history:


Used exfalso to set track tag

  • Use exfalso to set track tag
That didn't work either.

Back to Easytag. Try:
  • 3 digit track field
Didn't work

Back to Easytag. Try:
  • 3 digit track field
  • no of track number
Seems to have worked.

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