Media Player folder and file names. Sailfish X on XA2

asked 2019-06-20 16:46:11 +0200

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Hi, I'm trying to create folders for music (or pictures, videos) on a sdcard on Sailfish X / Sony XA2. On the sdcard with a terminl (Putty in developer mode and as root) I created a folder "Music" and in that folder a subfolder "Heidelberg". In that I put a "HappyBirthday.mp3". (No tagging) The media player does find everything, but the Album pops up there with a weird name (TASCAM DR-07 instead of Heidelberg) and the mp3 now has also a weird name (DR000499.mp3 instead of HappyBirthday.mp3). What can I do, so that the media player shows the original names? Thank you in advance for your answer(s). Best regards, Uwe.

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I have no idea why that has happened, but I can say, you don't need to be ROOT to make folders/files on your SD card.

If you share the mp3 I can try to recreate your problem, albeit I am using Jolla1, but I'm happy to try.

Spam Hunter ( 2019-06-20 19:02:25 +0200 )edit

@UweLabs:
Take a look at the MP3's tags (e.g. with MediaInfo from OpenRepos).
Usually if a file has no tags, it appears with its file name and the 'unknown artist' label. Folder names are AFAIC irrelevant to how MediaPlayer displays the track.
If the file really has no tags than you might have found some bug.

rozgwi ( 2019-06-20 23:22:16 +0200 )edit

Imho I thought that when I create a subfolder (in my example "Heidelberg") it will show a an album. Since I created this subfolder manually in a terminal it has no tag. And the example "HappyBirthday.mp3" I made myself by recording a wav file and then conterted it to mp3 (with lame). So there is also no tag in it. Both (folder and filename) display with "cryptic" names in media player.

UweLabs ( 2019-06-21 20:13:36 +0200 )edit

what device did you use for recording? TASCAM sounds ominously like some digital camera. have you checked the ID3 tag header of the file?

about your comment regarding the subfolder: are you aware that folders actually can't have any tags? no matter how you name or by which means you create it the media player (that is, the tracker daemon) will never look at it

rozgwi ( 2019-06-21 23:30:01 +0200 )edit

Ok, folders don't have an ID tag, thats clear. So I was hoping in media player this folder name shows as an album name. But why is it transfered to some cryptic name? Same with a mp3 file (without tag). Is this a bug or is there a logic behind it? Best regards, Uwe.

UweLabs ( 2019-06-22 19:08:22 +0200 )edit