Hi, has anyone ever managed to copy all their tags when copying MP3s to their S3 ?
Although you can view each song's tag details in Windows Explorer, it only allows for a limited number of tag columns (e.g, title, album, artist) whereas on the PC itself, the number of tags you can create is vast.
Worse than that, even though it appears to show some tags, the details aren't always copied. For instance, I copied some songs to my SD card and none of the "year" tags showed up - then I did the job a 2nd time and they all showed up.
Also, one of the few columns showing in Windows is "track number" - but my column was empty, even though the original songs all have "track number" details
I've tried opening the folder holding my songs on my SD card but MP3Tag won't recognize the folder
if someone could tell me how to make sure all my tags gets copied across, I'd be very grateful!
btw - I only got my phone today - it's S3 GT-I9300, 16gb internal, updated today from 4.0.4 (ice cream?) to 4.1.1 (jellybean?) sorry if I've got the jargon wrong ​

 

Ah, if only the world were that simple! Unfortunately the Net is full of stories of people who sync songs that end up either losing tags or being somehow corrupt - same with copying files
even if what you say is right, do you have any idea why Windows Explorer only shows very few tags on the Galaxy. but has countless ones on PCs?
thanks

 

Hi, I used Windows Explorer to view the tags - it only listed a few tags maximum and didn't include some info (like track #s) which were in the MP3 files before I copied them.

I also used Windows Explorer to copy and paste the MP#s on to the external SD card from the PC

 

yes, you might be right! - but why would it read some tags but not others?

um well I've only used the music player the phone came with yesterday - the only tags it shows are the artist, title and album art. I don't know of any Galaxy music player that shows you more tags. I also looked in "my files" which seems to be the phone's version of Windows Explorer but that also only shows artist, title and album cover

you made me think - is there a Galaxy app that allows you to view all of a file's properties a la Windows Explorer or MP3 tag?
anyway thanks very much for your reply

 

Update - you were spot on! I just downloaded an app called AudioTagger and browsed the SD card - almost all the tags I'd created were there after all - it's just that Windows didn't read them
so happy days - and thanks very much to everyone for their advice!