Nokia 5310 XpressMusic won't read MP3 tags

Hi,
I got the 5310 for Christmas of 2008. For a long time it was reading MP3 tags just fine (up until maybe three or four months ago). But, now, it seems that most of my MP3s I transfer, it won't read the tags on it. Usually if the album art is embedded to the MP3 it'll still read that, but it won't read song title, artist, album, track number, etc. However, this doesn't affect ALL of the MP3s. Maybe 15-20% of my MP3s are still read, even though they're tagged with the same program at the same time (I've tried tagging with both foobar2000 and iTunes and had the same result as far as what the phone will read). I don't know why it does this; I can open files directly off of my phone to foobar2000 and iTunes and both programs read every tag on every MP3 fine.
Does anyone have suggestions for what to try to fix this? Maybe a different tagging program or something to do to the phone to get it to read the tags. It gets really annoying not having the option to sort by artist or album.
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The music player reads ID3v2 tags and NOT ID3v1. Make sure that you have them in place. Some PC applications show and modify only ID3v1 tags. I don't use either of the apps that you mentioned, so, can't tell you if they are doing it. What I would suggest is to check the ID3v2 tags using Winamp/jetAudio (in windoze) or BMP/mplayer/amarok (in linux), and if necessary, update it and then transfer back to your phone.
Cheers,
DeepestBlue
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