Regarding my problem with uncorrectable audio filenames, here is a closely related blog post:
"I recently noticed that Rhythmbox was behaving strangely when reading the ID3 tags of my MP3 collection. No matter what ID3 tag editor I used to try to correct the issue, Rhythmbox appeared to be displaying tag information that didn’t seem to match any of the values they should be. Artist names would not appear as I set them. Track numbers and genres would display as blank values. I decided to use “strings” to take a look inside the MP3’s and find out what’s going on. It turns out my MP3’s were double tagged with v1 metadata and it was screwing up Rhythmbox..." ( http://www.savvyadmin.com/rhythmbox-id3-tag-issues/ ) It seems possible that this is my problem also. I can observe and change ID3v2, ID3v1 and even APE tags if present, by running my external hard drive on my old Windows machine and using WinAmp's capacity to view and change the file info (the metadata). However, I would like to be able to observe and change this info right here in my Ubuntu machine. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out the correct syntax for the "strings" commands in the terminal; whatever I try I just get > on the next line (even when it reports no syntax error, e.g., when I have carefully put the entire filepath in single quotation marks). Can someone please give me examples of string search commands for strings at head and tail of, e.g., '/media/New Volume/My Music/artist (year) - album/01 - track.mp3', and also examples of how to change these values, by re-entering them with duplicated tags removed, if these are in fact present? Thanks. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
