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well for sure samsung would day "use emodio". But they just say it because they read this answer form their checklist.

in another forum (P3 forum) http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/... people say they have managed to let lyrics get shown with another program Lyric Station MiniLyrics (?) ... well I didn't have tried but I would keep using songbird for this (even because I have fear hat the other method will then break the possibility to see the lyrics under songbird) does this help you more to understand what's wrong.

p.s. Mike M: I'll have a look if I try to set the column. Actually yesterday I did not find such column even not to "extra check mark it", the only way to show the tag type was "right click, properties.....

by the way: does anyone of you know how to search in the whole mp3 collection and list all the songs with ID3v2.4 format no matter with which program?

Hallo,

so just for clarity first about the Mp3Tag Program: Mike M is right and I know. There are 2 Programs with almost the same name
1) Mp3tag v2.43 --> free: this is the one you all are talking about and the one I'll refer further on
2) mp3Tag 5.91 --> commercial: forget

Thanks for the tips but none has worked out.

It does not seem to me that Mike M is right when he says
a) "Songbird always writes the language as XXX||"
b) "ID3v2.4, which is the only tag format Songbird can write"

All the lyrics in my mp3s come from songbird (at least I have batch saved all of them with songbird), but on many of them the language is set as eng|| and all of them are in format ID3v2.3 (I am sure about this because while doing the tests I have tried to "force save as ID3v2.4" and with such format the player looses even the cover art!)

I have tried:

1) save the lyric text under
"LYRICS" instead "UNSYNCEDLYRICS"

2) change "XXX||" into "eng||" (well as I have said by most songs it was already like this, I did it on a couple of them where was not the case)

3) Change the settings of Mp3tag into ID3v2.3 UTF-16; Re-save an mp3

4) Since I have told you most of my songs ARE already in ID3v2.3 I did the other way around: Change the settings of Mp3tag into ID3v2.4; Re-save an mp3 ==> it did even worst, in this case even the cover art is away i.e. definitely the YP-P3 is not ID3v2.4 compliant

5) a permutation of all of them

nothing has worked: I am still with no lyrics.

Any other idea? I no intention whatsoever to install on my computer the samsung "emodio" software, and the samsung support is the worst thing I have ever experienced in my whole life (and believe me I have quite an experience in this ...)

p.s. obviously I have checked in the file properties that the setting I have choose about the ID3 version were the wanted one.

I have tried:
rightclick on a file -> extended metadata -> click icon "Add field" -> Enter "LYRICS" and "Bla bla bla lyric test bla bla" -> Save Metadata. Then see if your "Bla bla" come up in your player.

nothing shown on the player. What can I try next??

and anyway: how do you "use MP3Tags automation tools to copy all the text from "UNSYNCEDLYRICS" to "LYRICS".????

no one has an idea?

how do I check from outside songbird (command line, perl whatever) hat really LyricMaster did save the lyrics in the tag and not in the songbird database?

I still haven't tried the dual boot but it looks like (http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...) (it will not work (and if you think about it it is clear why) .......add in future (near future) release: easy profile home change + dual boot?

@2MNY:
* what do you mean with "save file locations like this: file:///%%location1%%/Beck/Odelay/novacane.mp3"?? should I edit all my mp3 files and change the store path?
* what do you mean with "then have a menu where you can edit locations"? Where/how should I set this menu?
* ln -s /mnt/windows/ /C:/ .... mmmm I haven't tried but sounds dirty

@songbird:
I think a dual boot lin-win (at first) and remote store (at second) should be supported out of the box without tricks .... especially for a product whose strength with respect to the other tons of similar application on the market (in my opinion) is being cross platform and firefox "like" (i.e. dual boot "able" I assumed ...) ... add in future (near future) release?

Hi

I have just tested the new feature in 1.1. and it really looks like it does everything I wanted: inclusive the change of the metadata information when an external program changes them on an already existing file. Still I have tested on a very small test db (on the productive PC I still have 1.0 since some adds-on which I use are not available jet) but it looks really nice: good job guys!

ok thanks

This looks like it is working fine (at least with 1.1 .. I have updated in the meantime).
about:config --> find "location" --> you find 2 entries xxx.loader.0.databaseLocation
xxx.loader.1.databaseLocation
change the value of both of them to the new path you want
close songbird.
MOVE the original "default profile directory" into the new path you want.
Open songbird again: you are using the new profile path .... I still have to test the dual boot thing

right, there is no preferences tab.
I have only:

File, Edit, Controls, View, Tools, Help

My install is an update to 1.1 from 1.0, if it might help.

Hallo Lukas,

I have tried your suggestion (with songbird 1.0) but it does not seem to me like it is working properly.

I have created a new profile with another path (say "test"), close songbird, copied the "default" profile directory content into the "test" profile directory start again songbird with songbird -p and choose to start it with the "test" profile.

1) Say I keep the "default" profile --> when I open the new "test" profile the profile works properly. Say I do some changes in the "test" profile then I close it and open the "default" profile again ==> out of some reason I find the changes done in the "test" profile in the "default" profile too: like they would be just a link one to the other!!!!
2) Say at "songbird -p start" I choose to remove the "default" profile and choose to open the "test" profile. The "test" profile is "broken". The overall settings are correct (color scheme, adds-on etc) but there is no library (where normally the songs are listed there is white empty field), and even an import media does not help. The profile is useless ....

So what to do?
Another question while running songbird how to see the path of the profile used?

my question is linked to this one. I have a dual boot (linux and winxXP) machine.

Windows is mounted under linux (such that I can see the whole windows partitions).
I would like to work with only one profile in both OS.

To do this:
1) I have have to force songbird under windows to use a "custom" path for the user profile such that I can move the user profile say under D:\one71\songbird (C:\ is NTFS and linux "wirte" on NTFS is not 100% safe).

Say I mount D:\one71\songbird in linux under /windows/D/one71/songbird

2) I have to force songbird under linux to use a "custom" path for the user profile and use the path /windows/D/one71/songbird

questions: how to do (1), (2)? and will it work? I mean can I use the same profile on 2 OS? (in firefox and thunderbird works ....)

done it. The Feature suggestion is in bugzilla as "Bug 14889 – Drag cover art from mashTape into metedata"

done it. The Feature suggestion is in bugzilla as "Bug 14888 – File Location Tab scrolling"

I have the most fresh version (downloaded a week ago), and the suggested feature does not always work (sometimes yes (small library?), sometimes no (bib library?)