help with putting songs on my creative zen

[Maverick]

all of my songs are in perfect order (Name and title) on my computer in my shared folder. I have like 800 Songs

anyway, when i put them on my creative zen, all the song titles and artists are all messed up !!! like for example some songs have no title, or say track 03, unknown etc........ so when I go into my shared folder and look at the tracks (windows media) and right click on the song, click on properties and then click on summary....... I see all the shit that is on my creative zen when i look through the songs.

my question is how can I get the songs to look how they are in my shared folder onto my Zen ? why does my Zen show the details of the song from that other folder (my properties/summary)?

how can you find songs or organize the titles and stuff ? Do i have to change all the details one song at a time in my shared folder ?

thanks for the help guys.

here is what i am talking about........ I want the songs to be in my zen like this

but when you upload them into my zen, it displays songs by the sub menu as shown here

 

[Dial_tone]

Do you have id3 tags on the songs?

 

[Maverick]

what are those ?

I am clueless....

SOMEONE HELP ME !!!!!!!!!!!

KARMA WILL BE GIVEN AND OTHER SEXUAL FAVOURS AT REQUEST

 

[NickyE3]

you will need to manually add tags in Windows media player
Suggestion: get musicmatch jukebox, you can add tags from the filename - much faster and easier.

http://www.download.com/Musicmatch-Jukebox/3000-2167_4-10354571.html?tag=lst-0-1

 

[Dial_tone]

Find a program that will automatically fill in the id3 tag info from the internet. There should be a ton of them.

 

[p0ink]

yeah, doing that shit one by one would SUCK.

i am very anal about the organization on my ipod.

 

[eat big]

That Gang Starr song is called 'Full Clip' not Big L Rest In Peace.

Is that the song where he says:

Attacking like a slick Apache
My lyrics are trigger happy?

 

[p0ink]

the real mp3 pros use tag&rename

 

[NickyE3]

Find a program that will automatically fill in the id3 tag info from the internet. There should be a ton of them.

Musicmatch and Windows Media should do this. I hate doing it, cuz it has a hard time finding them sometimes.

 

[NickyE3]

the real mp3 pros use tag&rename

I am trying that out right now. And I dont like it. Maybe it is too complicated for me, but I highly doubt that. Thank god it is a 30 day trial.

 

[Maverick]

could someone explain how to do this in window's media player ? tag stuff

 

[megamania500]

In my windows media player, I right click a song and rename it, since when you rip a cd to the computer, the song list will just say like, "track 1, track 2, etc...". So when I put a song like this on my creative zen, it will indeed say "06 track 6" then it will say the name of the song, since I manually typed it in when I ripped it to the computer.

 

[megamania500]

Do you sync from Windows media player? Or from where?

 

[Maverick]

In my windows media player, I right click a song and rename it, since when you rip a cd to the computer, the song list will just say like, "track 1, track 2, etc...". So when I put a song like this on my creative zen, it will indeed say "06 track 6" then it will say the name of the song, since I manually typed it in when I ripped it to the computer.

I know but when I am browsing my songs in my zen, all i get is the track 03 etc

 

[Maverick]

That Gang Starr song is called 'Full Clip' not Big L Rest In Peace.

Is that the song where he says:

Attacking like a slick Apache
My lyrics are trigger happy?

yes

 

[megamania500]

What you could do is go plug your zen into your computer, open your "Zen Nano Plus Media Explorer" software that came w/your zen. Then go to "Organize Data in Zen Nano Plus". Once you click on that, you will get a window with a folder named, "Music". After that, I prefer to right click on it and pick "explore". Then you will see all the folders in your Zen under the main "Music" folder. If you don't see all the folders, but see the "Music" folder with a "+" next to it, click on the "+". Then all your music subfolders will open up. To see each song in a subfolder, just click on it and they will show up to the right. If these songs have different names instead of the names you want them to be, click on them to see what song it is because it will start playing. After you hear what song it is, right-click on it and you will see different options you can do, like "rename". So rename it whatever the song title is. But you will need to leave on the end of the original name, because the nano won't play the song without it. What you need to leave on is the ".wma" or ".mp3". For example, if you have Led Zeppelin's song Stairway to Heaven on your nano, but when you put it in your nano, it came up to be "06 track 6.wma", simply rename it to "Stairway to Heaven.wma". See how I left the end of the original title on? I had to do this, but my Nano is only one gigabytes, so it only holds about 250 songs, and not all of them needed to be changed. So it only took over an hour.
And you can rename your subfolders like this as well. These will go in alphabetical order on your nano automatically. The only thing I have had a problem with is that I can't put the songs in a certain order within a subfolder. For example, if I name a subfolder "hip hop" and put 15 hip hop songs in it, the nano will decide for itself what the order of those songs will be. I found that when I organize, the order of songs will follow the order that I dragged and dropped them into the folder, but not always. I hope this is the kind of info your looking for.

 

[NickyE3]

Musicmatch Jukebox will be your best bet. Tagging files from filenames.
filename: eminem-lose yourself-8 mile soundtrack.mp3
You will be able to tell Musicmatch to seperate the filename by the "-" and make it into a tag.
tag: eminem (artist) lose yourself (song) 8 mile soundtrack (album)

 

[Maverick]

What you could do is go plug your zen into your computer, open your "Zen Nano Plus Media Explorer" software that came w/your zen. Then go to "Organize Data in Zen Nano Plus". Once you click on that, you will get a window with a folder named, "Music". After that, I prefer to right click on it and pick "explore". Then you will see all the folders in your Zen under the main "Music" folder. If you don't see all the folders, but see the "Music" folder with a "+" next to it, click on the "+". Then all your music subfolders will open up. To see each song in a subfolder, just click on it and they will show up to the right. If these songs have different names instead of the names you want them to be, click on them to see what song it is because it will start playing. After you hear what song it is, right-click on it and you will see different options you can do, like "rename". So rename it whatever the song title is. But you will need to leave on the end of the original name, because the nano won't play the song without it. What you need to leave on is the ".wma" or ".mp3". For example, if you have Led Zeppelin's song Stairway to Heaven on your nano, but when you put it in your nano, it came up to be "06 track 6.wma", simply rename it to "Stairway to Heaven.wma". See how I left the end of the original title on? I had to do this, but my Nano is only one gigabytes, so it only holds about 250 songs, and not all of them needed to be changed. So it only took over an hour.
And you can rename your subfolders like this as well. These will go in alphabetical order on your nano automatically. The only thing I have had a problem with is that I can't put the songs in a certain order within a subfolder. For example, if I name a subfolder "hip hop" and put 15 hip hop songs in it, the nano will decide for itself what the order of those songs will be. I found that when I organize, the order of songs will follow the order that I dragged and dropped them into the folder, but not always. I hope this is the kind of info your looking for.

thanks for typing that, I appreciate that.... that took some time probably

 

[UA_Iron]

Batch Tagging Program - TagScanner

http://www.download.com/TagScanner/3000-2141_4-10354245.html?tag=lst-0-1

You'll be able to tag each mp3 using its title information - it'll go through your whole folder and do it.

Easiest solution listed on this thread.

 

[megamania500]

thanks for typing that, I appreciate that.... that took some time probably

About 12 minutes. I had problems with my Zen when I got it. But after playing with the organize option in the software, I can get around and set up my stuff pretty easy now.