Not accessing certain mp3 files in radio.

[jarcher1991]

I did a quick search to try to find a similar issue, no luck.

I placed about 10 mp3 tracks into the music folder in the PC documents directory. The game will read about half of them. It tries to read the file for about 3 seconds, and then moves to the next track.

I can play the tracks on media player, and access them otherwise. I compared the numbers and such in the properties menu from a playable to a nonplayable track, and found nothing unusual. They are stand-alone files, not shortcuts.

Anyone else having this issue? It just seems weird that it seems to arbitrarily choose what to play.

[Nono54Fr]

Not arbitrarily but finecky at best. Do a search on the ETS2 forum, issues with MP3 are common ... but I don't remember the specifics xD [...] something something tags something something bitrate something something encoding codecs.

[norbiq]

Actually it's got something to do with the mp3tags. Some time ago someone wrote here that the mp3 files cannot have any tags in. You may wanna check this theory.

[SmilesLikeJoker]

Originally posted by norbiq:

Actually it's got something to do with the mp3tags. Some time ago someone wrote here that the mp3 files cannot have any tags in. You may wanna check this theory.

^^

[jarcher1991]

I'll certainly check out the mp3 tags. Thanks for the speedy response!

[Wykydtron]

Originally posted by norbiq:

Actually it's got something to do with the mp3tags. Some time ago someone wrote here that the mp3 files cannot have any tags in. You may wanna check this theory.

I don't know what tag it is, but using MP3tag(http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) I just right clicked on the album/songs that weren't playing and removed all tags. Strange thing is for the ablum i tested it on it had the exact same tags as the other 2 by the same artist(Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and encoding type. So just nuke all the tags and that should solve your issues.

[SmilesLikeJoker]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/227300/discussions/0/412446890561717315/

This should explain the tage issue.

[Megalodongle]

I was also having this problem. I actually found the information in this thread, downloaded MP3tag, and I was adding text to the names of my MP3 files to make them more easily manageable without tag info. My history as a digital artist taught me to use file naming conventions, such as replacing every space with an underscore. Many programs are fussy about file names and sometimes they have a hard time understanding what each character means, especially on the "code side" of programs. I just happened to think maybe I should try playing the tracks with the new naming convention, before I removed the tags, and the tracks that didn't play before actually play.

It seems that an alternative workaround is to replace the spaces in your MP3 filenames with underscores and remove any punctuation or special characters (!@#$%^&*(?,.'\:;").

Update: After trying this for many files, some files still didn't play, but MP3tag fixed it. Using the MP3tag program is a more effective fix.

[Björn Ironside]

Ill save you all the time. Read this, it sums up basically what you have to do.

"Many mp3s will not be played by the games music player." (Euro Truck Simulator 2 Discussion Mentioned by @joker1231978)

"Originally posted by ixsetf:
Anyone have an idea of what is causing this problem or how to fix it?"

"room217au:
More than likely it is becaue those mp3s have ID3 tag information in them. This information contains things like genre, album title, etc etc.
Try the Google and find an mp3 tag editor. Remove ID3 and ID2 tags from your mp3s and they'll play fine in ETS2 music folder."

"kriko:
What @room217au said.
I've used this one: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

After that it started to work flawlessly."


Basically download the program from the link above, install the mp3tag program, go into the program and select file, choose directory, and if you have mp3s in your ATS music folder, select that folder which is in Documents/American Truck Simulator/music. Once you have that selected your mp3s will show up on the program. Select all, and right click to "remove tag" on all the files. Make sure when you do this that these arent the only versions of the files that you will be editing to be safe, because it removes all of the tag data, such as genre and whatnot, excluding the name of the file. Once you have done that though, your music should start playing, if not then you did something wrong and at this point it really isnt my fault lol.