Sansa Clip doesn't read Ogg Vorbis Tags. Use Easytag 2.1

I bought a Sansa Clip MP3 player. Happily it plays Ogg Vorbis encoded music files as of firmware 1.01.29.

Unfortunately it has a bug where if the fieldnames of the Ogg Vorbis tags or comments are not in all capital letters, the player won't read them.

For example if you have in your ogg file

Title=Happy Birthday

The clip won't recognize it. It wants to see

TITLE=Happy Birthday

(Open up your ogg file in wordpad if you want to see the tags. They should be hanging around the top of the file. Don't edit them in wordpad though. It doesn't work!)

To fix this and convert the tag field names to uppercase use a utility called Easytag 2.1 available at http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ . This utility can edit comment fields in ogg vorbis files and fortunately by default writes the fieldnames in upper case! That is when you make any change to tags in an ogg file, Easytag will rewrite all the tag/comment fieldnames in uppercase even if you didn't edit that particular tag!

Here's what I did...

Run Easytag and have it locate your ogg files by selecting the directory above them all.

Select all the files in the middle part of the window.

Change one of the blank Tag fields that you don't care about. For example the "Encoded by" fieldis probably blank. Set it to say "x" or something. Now click on the little button to the right of the field. This will apply that setting to all the selected files.

Now remove the "x" and click on the little button to the right again.

Finally click on the Disk shaped icon to "Save Files". You'll be asked if you want to write the tag files. Obviously select yes.

Voila, all your tag fields are now in capitals and your Sansa Clip should be able to identify them properly.