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PSP and MP3's
Didn't know if it was common knowledge, but after a couple of weeks of PSP ownership I was beginning to wonder why some MP3's on my memory stick are not shown with the correct ID3 tag info on my PSP. Artwork shows up fine, as set in iTunes, but the track name was just the file name and no other info present.
The odd thing was that it seemed it like it was my own ripped music which I know to have up to date tags etc from iTunes that wasn't displaying, but some mp3's from a friends iPod which was less strictly formatted than mine was displaying the tags. A bit of detective work narrowed it down to the weird issue that the PSP will display ID3 info from tags with v2.2, but not from v2.4, as per the latest version of iTunes. Of course you could convert all the tags back to v2.2 (I don't think there would be any real loss of functionality on the mac side of things), but I just don't use the PSP enough for music listening to justify the hassle, as well as the 'risk' of converting the tags back.
Just thought I would inform, as I haven't seen anything on the net about this.
UPDATE: The same applies to MP3's on the Sony Ericsson S700i also. Also, it appears that ID3 tags of v.2.3 work OK too, not just 2.2. v2.4 seems to be the problem.