MP3 tags on my hacked MP4 player

firewaterfan · #1 (**permalink**) 15th Mar 2007, 8:18 pm

Okay, so I found this site AFTER I bought my MP4 player from ebay. And yes, my player was hacked as well. ARGH!!! But anyway, I have 'unhacked' the memory and my 4 gig is actually 2. Still, considering it only cost me $40 Canadian, that's not bad.

But it seems to have some problems with the mp3 tags suddenly. Whenever I play music, the song info comes up as ypS yp1 ypB. Kinda looks cool, but not really useful when trying to find a song. Everything else is in English, and I have changed and reset the language to no avail.

Anyone ever run into this or have any ideas? I'm stumped!

pmilladcs · #2 (**permalink**) 15th Mar 2007, 8:26 pm

yea i have that prob on one of my songs. "confessions part 3" shows up as those letters, weird letters though, not english text.

firewaterfan · #3 (**permalink**) 15th Mar 2007, 8:49 pm

Yeah, that's the ones. Only every single one of my songs does it.

lattesurf · #4 (**permalink**) 16th Mar 2007, 1:57 am

firewaterfan , what format are your songs in?

Also, check the id3v1 and id3v2 tags are properly named. You might even want to remove the both tags totally.

firewaterfan · #5 (**permalink**) 16th Mar 2007, 9:03 am

Songs are all MP3. Unsure how to check or remove the tags you are talking about, although I wonder if you're right because I did some conversion with a file called Bonk Encoder to change everything to 128bit MP3 and the song titles in Windows are all slightly different now.

So, how do I change or remove the tags? Will scour the internet for more info pending a response.

Thanks

firewaterfan · #6 (**permalink**) 16th Mar 2007, 9:27 am

K....never mind....was in my encoding program. FYI I had to remove the v2 tags and use the v1 tags. After that, all is good.

Thanks for the help!!!!