rename RM file to play in winamp (i know it s not a bug but....)

[emm053]

hallo winamp people,
i have saved on my hard disk some CDs using realone player.by default the tracks copied have been saved as track1,track2,track3 and so on.i have renamed these files with the name of the correspondent song and artist and i am playing them in winamp using a plugin (Tara audio) that as far as i know enablles winamp to play RealMedia and RealSystemMedia (i don t know the difference between the two).The problem is that even after have changed the name of the source file, winamp still plays the songs displaying Track1,Track2,3...in the title box.Now i have noticed that if i right-click on the RealMedia or RealSystemMedia file in my hard disk and go to properties there is only a General tab,while if i right-click and then properties again on any mp3 file(the ones that winamp plays displaying the correct file name without problem) there is still the same general tab with the file name but there is also a Summary tab where the name and author of the file can be entered again.Why this tab is only present in mp3s and not in RMs files?one way to get winamp to recognize the file name is to right click on the file in the media library within winamp ,go to edit selected item, change the name and update.in this way it works regardless of the source file name, but it is a lot time consuming to change the file name twice (one in the hard disk and two within winamp) especially for people like me that save many CDs to disk.is the only solution to convert real media files to mp3s?

Any help highly appretiated.i am sorry but i am quite new to winamp and i find it to be the best player around at least for my needs, but this bug/problem is quite annoying.

thanks


[Edit] Moved from WA-BR to WA-TS by moderator --> DJ Egg [/Edit]

[gas-attack]

Like MP3 files, Real files have a sort of tag. Cause mp3 is a very well-known and spreaded format, they made WinXP able to edit the ID3 tag in the file props. But Windows can't tag every format. You'll need a special Real-Audio tagger prog to edit the tag info (systematically).

[Reaper]

is the only solution to convert real media files to mp3s?

Transcoding from two lossy formats is never recommended and in general MP3 is a much more recommended format than Real Audio. Rerip the CDs from the original source using a program like CDex or Winamp Pro.

[emm053]

Originally posted by gas-attack
But Windows can't tag every format.

thanks for replaying you guys however there is still something that i dont understand.if for example i rename a rm file as "madonna - frozen" and winamp plays it as "track 9" where does it read track 9 from?is it somehow imbedded in the file information/code or whatever?if it is embedded there must be a way (or a program) that can display all the information of that file and be able to change what we want am i right?

thanks again

[DJ Egg]

Yes. You set the tags when you rip the CD's.
Surely RealOne has this feature?

Winamp will read whatever tags are in the files, unless you disable tag reading, and make it read (eg.) filename only (Prefs > Titles > Advanced Title Formatting).

Whether you can use the library to update RM tags, I'm not sure.
You'll be able to edit the library metadata (library -> local media > item > right click > edit selected items), but I don't know if this also updates the tags for RealPlayer formats (works for most other formats, eg. mp3, ogg, etc).

Apart from that, like the guys above say, we don't recommend that you rip your cd's to limited, inferior, proprietry formats...