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Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Hi to everyone,

I recently bought a Creative Zen Stone MP3 player, uploaded a few songs and noticed:

It only plays a few songs (10 or sth).

 

The played songs are always the same ones, no matter if I put them into a subfolder. On my PC (Winamp 5.5 Build 1600), everything is played fine. How can I make them be played on a Zen Stone?

audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #1 –
Quote from: tuxman on
Hi to everyone,

I recently bought a Creative Zen Stone MP3 player, uploaded a few songs and noticed:

It only plays a few songs (10 or sth).

 

The played songs are always the same ones, no matter if I put them into a subfolder. On my PC (Winamp 5.5 Build 1600), everything is played fine. How can I make them be played on a Zen Stone?


What format are those songs?
Break The Rules!!!

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #2 –
MP3, as I don't like WMA.
audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #3 –
Quote from: tuxman on
MP3, as I don't like WMA.

Strange, I don't encounter such problem with my player.

How many level of subfolder you created then? (E.g. Artist -> Album Name = 2 level)
Break The Rules!!!

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #4 –
This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but have you checked to see that your files are all tagged? If they are, what format are you using? ID3v1 or v2? I have a Zen Micro that doesn't like anything but ID3v1 and as such will not recognize any file that does not have a v1 tag.
 

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #5 –
Check out the epizenter.net forums.  It is a forum dedicated to creative DAPs.  I bet you will find an answer there.

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #6 –
Quote from: master on
How many level of subfolder you created then? (E.g. Artist -> Album Name = 2 level)

One.


Quote from: KnobTwiddler on
checked to see that your files are all tagged?

They are. I use MP3Tag and/or M. Mutschler's MP3Info extension for tagging. The files have both ID3v1 and v2 tags, IIRC.
edit: Ah, there are some which only have v1...


@spockep:
Thanks, I'll have a look!



Another edit:
After adding v1 tags, all seems to work fine!

audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #7 –
Quote from: tuxman on
Quote from: master on

How many level of subfolder you created then? (E.g. Artist -> Album Name = 2 level)

One.


Quote from: KnobTwiddler on
checked to see that your files are all tagged?

They are. I use MP3Tag and/or M. Mutschler's MP3Info extension for tagging. The files have both ID3v1 and v2 tags, IIRC.
edit: Ah, there are some which only have v1...


@spockep:
Thanks, I'll have a look!



Another edit:
After adding v1 tags, all seems to work fine!




Oh Creative, when will you support modern tags? I about lost my mind trying to figure out why some tagged files still wouldn't work.

Since when has HA had the  smiley?

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #8 –
If they'd ask me, I wouldn't even need v1 tags. The ZS however has no display, so what's all this about?

audiophile // flac & wavpack, mostly // using too many audio players

Creative Zen Stone: It plays only a few songs?!

Reply #9 –
Well yes, it would be nice if my ZM would read untagged files too. I can't imagine the reason behind not supporting filenames in the event of an untagged file...