No tags on MP3s ripped with SoundJuicer

[Farthing-or-less]

MP3s ripped and encoded by SoundJuicer (Dapper) don't have MP3 tags - well, just the name and title. If i look at the files in Easytag, for example, I find nothing. Tags appear for other formats. Any fixes?

[soze]

Originally Posted by Farthing-or-less MP3s ripped and encoded by SoundJuicer (Dapper) don't have MP3 tags - well, just the name and title. If i look at the files in Easytag, for example, I find nothing. Tags appear for other formats. Any fixes?

They sorta-kinda do.
What it appears that SoundJuicer does is put a V1 id3 tag (with good data) in the file, and then adds a blank V2 tag.

Lot's of programs will use the V2 tag if it's there, so you are seeing what looks like no tagging at all.

You can either:
1. Strip off the V2 tags
2. Copy the V1 tag data to the V2 tag (what I do).

I'm kind of hoping they fix this soon, since it's a bit of a pain.

[grendelkhan]

I just ripped a couple of songs for a mix cd the other day and I noticed they looked odd in Serpentine, but now that I'm checking them you're absolutely right.

What gives?

[eyesonly]

Yep I have the same problem. Still searching for a ripper that do both compression and add a tag

[yopnono]

Give banshee a try

[eyesonly]

banshee doesn't work either

[Max Roswell]

I'm having the same problem with Sound Juicer and Banshee; anyone find a solution yet? Or can someone recommend yet another ripper/encoder? I just ripped a bunch of new CDs, and my MP3 player can't do anything unless there are ID3v1 tags!

[roberto73]

add id3v2mux to your Gstreamerpipeline!
see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CDRipping
my tags are fine now...

[desp]

Originally Posted by roberto73 add id3v2mux to your Gstreamerpipeline! see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CDRipping my tags are fine now...

Err, this does not seem to work in Soundjuicer...

I had seen that link some time ago and even having

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc bitrate=128 ! id3v2mux

as a pipeline for my mp3 encoding profile, the tags are not there. Neither Beep Media Player nor EasyTag can find any tags in songs encoded from SoundJuicer with this profile.

If SoundJuicer writes only ID3v1 tags as it apparently does, why the hell do programs not fall back to using the ID3v1 tags if they are present? It's not that ID3 tags were invented yesterday...

Cheers.

[roberto73]

shame on me
I didn't check carefull enough!
The tracks I ripped look good using rhythmbox and amarok! Even iTunes can read out all the informations correctly.

If SoundJuicer writes only ID3v1 tags as it apparently does, why the hell do programs not fall back to using the ID3v1 tags if they are present? It's not that ID3 tags were invented yesterday...

I don't know if soundJuicer really writes ID3v1... Using audio tag tool or easytag the tracks ripped with soundjuicer seem not to have any ID3tags at all!

Cheers