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FLAC command line not doing what it should

Hello,

this is the command line i use to create an album image:
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"d:\Program Files\Codecs\FLAC\flac.exe" --replay-gain --cuesheet="CDImage.cue" --picture="CDImage.jpg" --verify -8 CDImage.wav


Now, it does add the album art & cuesheet but somehow doesn't add the replay gain info - at least foobar doesn't see any.

The weird thing about it is, it was working fine before, so i'm not sure if it's FLAC's, mine or foobar's fault <.<
I did update the flac encoder & foobar some time ago, but i can't remember if it stopped working after i did so or if there was something else.

Does anyone know what i am doing wrong?

OS is Vista x64 SP1, UAC disabled.
Flac version: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
foobar version: 0.9.5.4

Another question: --cuesheet="CDImage.cue" only marks where tracks start in an album image, is there any way to auto-include the tags, too?

FLAC command line not doing what it should

Reply #1 –
Quote from: ChronoSphere on
Hello,

this is the command line i use to create an album image:
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"d:\Program Files\Codecs\FLAC\flac.exe" --replay-gain --cuesheet="CDImage.cue" --picture="CDImage.jpg" --verify -8 CDImage.wav


Now, it does add the album art & cuesheet but somehow doesn't add the replay gain info - at least foobar doesn't see any.

To see if your file actually has ReplayGain, try:
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metaflac.exe --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT file.flac

and look for the REPLAYGAIN_* tags.  If the tags aren't found, metaflac can also add them with the "--add-replay-gain" flag.

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Another question: --cuesheet="CDImage.cue" only marks where tracks start in an album image, is there any way to auto-include the tags, too?

FLAC's cuesheet block only has room for catalog number, lead-in, track numbers, track offsets, ISRC, indexes and a few other 1-bit flags.  It can't hold title or performer tags.

FLAC command line not doing what it should

Reply #2 –
If you embed the cuesheet as a Vorbis Comment then you will see the other tag information; such as artist, album, genre etc.
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FLAC command line not doing what it should

Reply #3 –
Quote from: tuffy on
To see if your file actually has ReplayGain, try:
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metaflac.exe --list --block-type=VORBIS_COMMENT file.flac

and look for the REPLAYGAIN_* tags.  If the tags aren't found, metaflac can also add them with the "--add-replay-gain" flag.


This is the output right after encoding:



This is the output after replay gaining with foobar 0.9.5.4


Looks like either foobar adding something own to the file or the --replay-gain switch not writing the whole info?


Quote from: drbeachboy on
If you embed the cuesheet as a Vorbis Comment then you will see the other tag information; such as artist, album, genre etc.
should i use
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metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=CDImage.cue
command or something else to do that?

FLAC command line not doing what it should

Reply #4 –
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Looks like either foobar adding something own to the file or the --replay-gain switch not writing the whole info?

None of the two. However, flac stores the CUE data elsewhere, in the CUESHEET metadata block, which is why you do not see it with your current vorbisgain command. It should appear when you remove the --block-type option from your command. Foobar stored the information in the VORBIS_COMMENT block.

FLAC command line not doing what it should

Reply #5 –
I'm confused about what does what.

what is the purpose of the --replay-gain switch for flac.exe?
as i see it, it is used to compute the replay gain values for the album image and save them as VORBIS_COMMENTs, but why doesn't foobar see them then?

foobar is re-calculating exactly the same info as it already has and writes it into it's own vorbis comment, included into the cuesheet? shouldn't it just read the existing info and use this instead?

i do understand that the CUESHEET block and the cuesheet VORBIS_COMMENT are 2 different things, but why using the CUESHEET block to store the basic cuesheet, if the applications are supposed to read this info from the VORBIS_COMMENT block?

edit: Foobar is definitely writing the replay gain values only to the cuesheet comment! if this implementation is correct, why is flac.exe creating separate comments for the replaygain info?

this is the metaflac output of a file encoded w/o the --replaygain switch - when foobar calculated it's values, it wrote it inside the cuesheet comment....


oh, and metaflac doesn't handle utf-8 well, so it seems.
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metaflac --set-tag-from-file="CUESHEET=CDImage.cue"

creates an invalid tag and foobar cannot see the embedded cuesheet anymore.