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#3074 - 03/08/1999 07:11 MP3 transfer to the EMPEG
0sb0rne
stranger

Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 35
I'm sure you guys at empeg have thought of this already, but how does the EMPEG deal with the M$ filenames (eg. containing whitespaces) when uploading your MP3's to the unit?




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#3075 - 03/08/1999 07:18 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: 0sb0rne]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Filenames aren't used by the empeg, so this makes very little difference. If you don't have ID3 tags on the file, the title of the track you drag into emplode is set to the filename (whitespace & all).

Hugo



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#3076 - 03/08/1999 07:29 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: altman]
0sb0rne
stranger

Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 35
Erm... ok... perhaps this will become more obvious when I finally get one and look at the software... but surely you have to upload all your mp3's to the unit itself, and if they have a M$ filename like ' My Song.mp3 ' then what happens to the whitespace (cos you can't create a unix filename with a whitespace on it). Does the software just add a \ when it comes across a whitespace (eg. My\ Song.mp3) or something else?




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#3077 - 03/08/1999 08:01 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: 0sb0rne]
Jazzwire
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Registered: 09/06/1999
Posts: 483
Loc: Guernsey
Sorry, but you can create files with whitespace in the name on Linux...
From the command line, you just use quotes.
eg. mkdir "My Artist"
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#3078 - 03/08/1999 09:04 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: altman]
zli_mcla
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Registered: 14/06/1999
Posts: 10
As a chinese American, most of the ID3 tags of my song collection are in chinese.
Can the unit handle it correctly?

Chung


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#3079 - 03/08/1999 09:38 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: zli_mcla]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Unfortunately not - we only support the ISO-8859-1 characterset at the moment (Latin-1).

Hugo



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#3080 - 03/08/1999 09:43 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: 0sb0rne]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Apart from "yes, unix can have spaces in filenames", the empeg does not use filenames to store mp3 files. It uses FIDs (file identifiers) which are hex strings - these are indexed in a database. The database holds all the title, artist, etc info.

Hugo


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#3081 - 03/08/1999 11:50 Re: MP3 transfer to the EMPEG [Re: altman]
zli_mcla
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Registered: 14/06/1999
Posts: 10
So how would the chinese ID3 tags appear on the unit? Plain ASCII code? or it just blank?

Chung


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