(no subject)
Oct. 23rd, 2003 11:30 pmWell. That was an unholy pain in the ass, but it seems to have been resolved without incident, finally.
I have been ripping my CD collection, so that I can burn it all to CDs in MP3 format, to play in the car. I've made it through over 200 CDs, so far.
I just realized that my car stereo can't read ID3V2 tags. All my MP3s have ID3V2 tags, but no ID3V1.
I found 4 shareware programs that claimed to be able to solve my problem. Each one of them I found through a link that didn't tell me they were shareware. The two that would actually solve my problem were crippled such that they couldn't effectively help me. (One wouldn't do batches larger than 10 unless I registered, the other was going to credit itself in the comments unless I registered.) I couldn't see paying $20 (or more!) to use a program once, especially when the task I needed to perform was something I could probably write a program to do in an hour or two. There were more shareware programs out there, but I stopped looking after those four and started looking specifically for freeware.
Finally, I found the right selection of terms to feed Google, and found MP3 Book Helper. Freeware, and it does precisely what I need. Huzzah!
I have been ripping my CD collection, so that I can burn it all to CDs in MP3 format, to play in the car. I've made it through over 200 CDs, so far.
I just realized that my car stereo can't read ID3V2 tags. All my MP3s have ID3V2 tags, but no ID3V1.
I found 4 shareware programs that claimed to be able to solve my problem. Each one of them I found through a link that didn't tell me they were shareware. The two that would actually solve my problem were crippled such that they couldn't effectively help me. (One wouldn't do batches larger than 10 unless I registered, the other was going to credit itself in the comments unless I registered.) I couldn't see paying $20 (or more!) to use a program once, especially when the task I needed to perform was something I could probably write a program to do in an hour or two. There were more shareware programs out there, but I stopped looking after those four and started looking specifically for freeware.
Finally, I found the right selection of terms to feed Google, and found MP3 Book Helper. Freeware, and it does precisely what I need. Huzzah!