I'm trying to convert my wavpack's to mp3 for my nokia 6230i, which works great in foobar, however my nokia phone does not seem to like foobars mp3 tags.

After converting wv to mp3 foobar writes id3v1 & id3v2 and the nokia only shows square symbols instead of tags. I've since learnt that the nokia does not support id3v2 so i would like to only use id3v1 but have full tag support with APEv2 for my foobar player. Not too much to ask?

Tagging options seem very limited in foobar 0.9 unless im overlooking something so i tried wapet which writes APEv2 fine BUT i cant figure out how to write id3v1+APEv2 with wapet.

%d -t "Artist=%a" -t "Title=%t" -t "Album=%g" -t "Year=%y" -t "Track=%n" -t "Genre=%m" C:\Audio\encoders\lame\LAME.exe -V 3 --vbr-new --id3v1-only %s %d

The above creates an mp3 with only APEv2 but not the id3v1 (no tags on the nokia)

1. How can i create mp3' with full tags (APEv2+id3v1) with foobar that my nokia can read and not display square symbols in one step?

Two possibilities:

• with 0.9 load your MP3 files, right click and change TAG formats. It's slow (files are completely rewritten ; no need to say that it's highly preferable to do it before transfering the files on a slow device like flash-memory UMS player...) and you must do it each time you're encoding something with foobar2000 0.9. It's a repetitive and useless task, but it's the price to pay to "simplify foobar2000"

• stay with 0.83 for MP3 encodings, and set tag formats to ID3v1 + APEv2. You just have to do it once, without repeating all the time the same boring operations...

The problem may also be the fact that foobar v.9 encodes the tags as Unicode. I have the same problem with my iAudio X5L. It does not display any of the tags that foobar writes.

The phone actually can read ID3v2.3 UTF-16 tags, but it cannot read foobar's ID3v2.4 utf-8

Well i just did a few tests with tagging in foobar 0.8.3 and 0.9

My phone can indeed read id3v2 tags created in 0.83 but not id3v2 tags created with 0.9 (just shows square symbols)

0.8.3 also lets me set apev2 and id3v1 or just id3v2 which my phone reads

0.9 cannot encode files with a choice of tag as yet, (foobar decides whats best?) it can only retag the files after encode as guruboolez mentioned, which is a shame.

thanks for the help