Need to organise music on Zen vision M

PonderStibbons

Hi, I've got a bunch of music on a Creative vision M that has no artist/track information. It just shows up as <unknown> on the player, and I have to scroll through a list of filenames to find what I want. I'm trying to find a programme that will help me put in ID3 tags. I don't mind doing it manually, but my problem is that the software that comes with the Zen is absolutely awful for editing track information, because it doesn't show me the music based on what shows up in the player, but by the folder name - and I can't find out easily at all which music doesn't have any track information; it all looks the same with the creative software. Windows Media Player would be perfect for this, but it doesn't let me edit track information for files on the Zen, only on a hard drive (all the files I need to change are currently on an external hard drive which died during the week! )

Sorry, I'm starting to realise as I read it back that what I've just wrote is a bit confusing. Basically I'm looking for a programme that displays my music (on a Zen) like Windows Media Player (or iTunes) do, but lets me edit the track information. If this is possible.
Cheers.

fatal

im having the exact same problem with mine.The crap software that comes with the vision m is useles..if anyone else could suggest another thing id try it...even if it meant editing them manually

Gran Hermano

Have a look at Tagscanner
http://www.download.com/3000-2141_4-10056506.html

I've used it to edit tags and filenames 0n 60gb of music
without any problems. And it's free...

GBX

does tag scanner fix album art?

J-blk

It will be easier to edit the music if you transfer it back to a hard drive - plus, if you have no backup of your music, I wouldn't risk any edits. What happens if the ZEN dies or something? In any case, I think this may work with the music on the player (the MediaMonkey part) but the Itunes part won't...

Try using MediaMonkey - it can do mass tagging, fix filenames if you want (so that your entire library uses the same naming convention, e.g. track number. track title.mp3) and once tags are in fairly good shape, you can pull album art from Amazon for most stuff and embed it into the MP3s (which means album art will then show in WMP, Itunes, on the ZEN and anywhere else that supports it).

I have a huge library (about 15000 tracks) that I maintain tags with MediaMonkey but actually fix the album art with Itunes, because a) it's easier and b) the album art is usually high quality from Itunes. However, you need a workaround in Itunes to get it to embed album art so that when the files are imported to WMP and transferred to your ZEN, the art is still there. You can find how that's done here:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/album-art/use-itunes-to-add-embedded-album-art-225361.php

Also have a look at these guides which cover a lot of these steps in detail:

http://lifehacker.com/software/album-art/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-ii--album-art-231476.php

http://lifehacker.com/software/album-art/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-iii-metadata-233336.php

Gran Hermano

For adding album art I use:
http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/
Transfers to the Zen no problem.

BostonB

I use MediaMonkey for everything myself.

Royale with Cheese

Gran Hermano wrote:

For adding album art I use:
http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumart/
Transfers to the Zen no problem.

Am interested in using this program... but how the hell do I download it off the site?

Edit: Ok nevermind, found it in the end