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Windows FLAC player/tagger?

I'm looking for a good Windows FLAC player and tagger. I'd really prefer open source, but if it's good enough, I'll take anything.

Any ideas?


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Joel

Windows FLAC player/tagger?

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Players: Winamp with plugin, foobar2000
Taggers: foobar2000 masstagger, case's TAG with or without frontend

Windows FLAC player/tagger?

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Players: Winamp with plugin, foobar2000
Taggers: foobar2000 masstagger, case's TAG with or without frontend

Where can i get the newest WA-plugin?

Hiwi
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Windows FLAC player/tagger?

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Players: Winamp with plugin, foobar2000
Taggers: foobar2000 masstagger, case's TAG with or without frontend

Where can i get the newest WA-plugin?

Hiwi

It's included in the windows download at the official page:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

Windows FLAC player/tagger?

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I do FLAC on Win32.  Here's the process that works for me,  I use Exact Audio Copy to turn the CD to WAV files in a standard naming format of 'trackno - artist - album - title.wav'.  When I have gathered a bunch of WAV files, I use FLAC's Win32 front end to compress all the WAV files to FLAC files and have it add tags based on the expected filenames.

After that I use Foobar2000 to add replay gain info to all the FLAC files based on album name and use Foobar2000 as my only player. 

Does anyone have a way to make tags on FLAC files become an attribute that Windows explorer knows about?  Sometimes I'd like to be able to sort directories based on the FLAC tags, but I haven't found any shell extensions yet that will allow this.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P. Feynman

Windows FLAC player/tagger?

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Spoon's dBPoweramp adds shell extensions that allow you to view almost any audio format's tags with a simple mouseover, as well as right click properties.  I'm sure there are others that do this?

While on the subject, why not setup EAC to directly encode to FLAC and save a step?  I'm sure the results are just the same with the added bonus of tagged FLAC files as well.

Windows FLAC player/tagger?

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Spoon's dBPoweramp adds shell extensions that allow you to view almost any audio format's tags with a simple mouseover, as well as right click properties.  I'm sure there are others that do this?

While on the subject, why not setup EAC to directly encode to FLAC and save a step?  I'm sure the results are just the same with the added bonus of tagged FLAC files as well.

Thanks!  I'll look into dBPoweramp.  I'm not looking for details on mouseover, I'm usually manipulating large amounts of files, so I like to be able to add Artist, Album etc to Windows detailed view in explorer and have them show up visually for sorting and things.  I was able to do this with OGG using a program that I think was called Vorbis Extensions, and either it doesn't work for FLAC or my Explorer is messed up.

Regarding EAC -> FLAC direct, it's just a perference/workflow thing for me.  I'm currently going through my entire CD collection in large batches to turn them to FLAC.  It works fastest and best for me in the process I've designed.  I sit at the computer working and just swap CD's in and rip them all to one directory with EAC and don't have to wait for them to compress.  When I have roughly 500 files or come close to filling up my local hard drive, I dump all WAVs into FLAC front-end and compress them overnight while I don't need to use my machine.  Then add replay gain info and move the files to their final resting place on my server.

Having EAC do the FLAC encoding will undoubtedly produce the same results, but I won't go to that until I'm doing one or two CD's at a time after I've completed my collection.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P. Feynman