Which tags does the Fuze take "notice" of?

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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I’ve been messing with ID3/FLAC/OGG/WMA tag writing recently, and I’ve a system that works. However, for extra completeness, I need to know which tag fields the fuze will use.

So far, I’ve got:

Track Number

Track Name

Artist

Album Name

Genre

Album Artwork

Am I ok supporting reading/writing of these, or do I need more? Note that I’m reading durations from the files themselves, not their tags, and not allowing the user to change the duration (for obvious reasons).

On a related note, can the fuze read album artwork from flac/ogg tag headers? And how does the fuze handle artwork anyway? Can you use the “jpeg in the album folder” technique, do you have to embed the artwork into each track’s header etc?

D.

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I think you found all the relevent tag fields.

For artwork, the “folder.jpg” method works for all file types (and is required for ogg/FLAC).  I believe embedded art ony works for MP3.

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Since the fuze also uses replay gain, these tags are also read:

replaygain album gain

replaygain track gain

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@skinjob wrote:

I think you found all the relevent tag fields.

 

For artwork, the “folder.jpg” method works for all file types (and is required for ogg/FLAC).  I believe embedded art ony works for MP3.

Embedded cover art is supported in ogg

I don’t know about FLAC, though

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Flac and Ogg both use the same tag format, so it’s supported by the filetype - it’s unknown whether the Fuze supports embedded album art or not.

No matter, as embedding album art is reasonably insane if you’re grouping your files into folders by album. It only makes sense when you have many different authors/albums in the same folder (like my “misc” folder).

Also looking at getting replaygain tags in too, and generation thereof from examination of the media. 

D.