Music – How to Download Songs from Amazon’s Cloud Player

I think the issue could be the tags that CD Rippers use - they usually create ID3v2.4 tags which some Zens can't handle.

Possible Solution 1

Asunder CD ripper will rip to either ID3v1 or ID3v2.x tag format depending upon the information on the CD.

Install asunder and lame from the software center.

Run asunder - and select the preferences button followed by the Encode tab.

Tick the MP3 checkbox and uncheck the ogg checkbox.

Then rip your CD.

Possible Solution 2

Use Banshee or another tool to import your CD. Banshee will tag your mp3 in ID3v2.4 format

Correcting ID3 Tag information

Since Asunder will sometimes not write ID3v2.3 tags and Banshee will write to a tag format that your Zen will not understand, you will need to use another application to correct the tag format.

EasyTag is such a program - just to confuse everyone, there are two versions in the Software Center. Check EasyTag - Help - About - Extensions. If it says v2.3 support is disabled, then install the other "easytag" in the software center - on natty this is version 2.1.6.

Ensure EasyTag Settings - Preferences look like this:

1. highlight the file or files and add some text to the comment field. N.B. you can use the usual shift - click method to highlight multiple files.
2. click the save button - a prompt should display indicating that it would like to write the changed tag information back to the file. Click Yes

Transfer to your Zen and confirm that the tag information is displayed correctly.

The artist name, album title and other information that you are trying to change are called ID3 tags. You can search the Ubuntu Software Center for id3tag editors and pick whatever you like/prefer and use that to change the information. Most players have that functionality inbuilt, not sure about Rhythmbox(coz I have never used it), but I use Clementine and it allows me to change the ID3 tags as required.