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COMAND won't play MP3s without ID tag?

Old Apr 24, 2010 | 07:29 PM
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COMAND won't play MP3s without ID tag?

I just got a PCMCIA-to-SD adapter and tried it for the first time. Looks like the system was not able to play the tracks that did not have an ID tag (no artist/album/title stored in the header). Is that right or is there something else in the MP3 that would make COMAND not play it?
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Old Apr 24, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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COMAND doesn't even recognize ID tags
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Old Apr 24, 2010 | 10:28 PM
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Not only that it recognizes ID3, it fully supports unicode tags as well; I also have no problem playing files without tags. I usually just strip the tags when I'm too lazy to fix the messes in them.
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Not only that it recognizes ID3, it fully supports unicode tags as well; I also have no problem playing files without tags. I usually just strip the tags when I'm too lazy to fix the messes in them.
My manual says that COMAND does not recognize ID3.
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Originally Posted by mr inkredibul
My manual says that COMAND does not recognize ID3.
I just checked the COMAND manual, and you are absolutely right: p131 states that COMAND does not support ID3. However, the system reads the tags just fine, and the ones with tags are ID3v2.3!
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