Tag: flac
Fixing FLAC music for the N900 media player
by Jim on Dec.14, 2009, under Maemo, Operating Systems
The N900 uses gstreamer, a media system used by many Linux distros and it does support Flac; however, the built in media player is unable to read the Flac/Vorbis tags because it can only read IDV3 tags. This results in all your Flac media being dumped in one folder marked ‘other’. This makes the N900’s media player useless for lossless audio. This can be worked around, but if you plan on putting a lot of music on to the N900, you may want to wait for the tag to be supported.
Basically, what you need to do is get IDV3 (ideally IDV3V2) tags on your Flac media. Now, many tools will not let you do this, as the Flac format is designed to use Vorbis tags; but, the format does also support IDV3 tags! I found that using DBpoweramp, you can set the encoder to use IDV3 tags when dealing with Flac files. So all you have to do is re-encode your Flac media collection, to Flac (yes, that is weird!) and the tags should be automatically changed the IDV3 by DBpoweramp. It should only take 2 minites to ‘encode’ an album, so it won’t take ages to encode enough Flac files to fill the N900!
You can use a tool such as Mp3tag, which states the type of tags used by the file to confirm the changes.
The files should now automatically be indexed by the media player in the N900. This will also work for Canola.
