I picked up a discounted E150 and much to my dismay it seems that the firmware has an issue where fields need to be capitalized - ie "artist" needs to be "ARTIST"

This conflicts with most rippers and transcoders. For new rips i can adjust the commandline, but how to do this for existing files and also ones that need to be transcoded to flac?

For editing existing files, I recommend Mp3tag.

How to:
Go to Convert > Actions and create a case conversion group to suit your needs.
For example, setting "Field:" to "_TAG" and "Case Conversion:" to "UPPER case" would convert all existing tags for all selected files.

have you tried to upgrade firmware?

I tried mptag but all it did was uppercased the characters in the tags and the problem remained. There is a new firmware but the changelog mentions nothing of this bug.

What does work is changing the ripper commandline from:

-T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

to:

-T "ARTIST=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" %s

How to do this using mp3tag ??


It seems I'm totally screwed with this bug and should take this player for a refund.

In "Actions > Case Conversion > Field (drop-down menu)", use "_FIELDNAME". "_TAG" effects the field values, not field names. Hopefully, this will work.

Ok that worked but now I can't figure out how to get the tracks in correct order when copying in MSC mode. They look to be in track order but * play alphabetically !! *