FLAC to MP3 Tagging, No tagging when converting FLAC to MP3 Options

[mhack_52]

Hello,

I am looking to archive/back-up most of my CD’s digitally and store them for future use. My preference is to store them as individual track FLAC files so I can readily convert some of the tracks into MP3 files for playing through iTunes and on iPods/iPads.

I downloaded Exact Audio Copy to rip the CD’s to the FLAC format. After much screaming, crying and gnashing of teeth I finally got that working well. Success! I can rip a CD to a group of FLAC files and create a Cue file and a log! That ensures I can burn a CD with Image Burn when and if I need to.

I then used Switch Sound File Converter Plus to convert the FLAC tracks to MP3’s with success. BUT…to my dismay the tagging information is non-existent. The MP3 when dragged into iTunes is devoid of any tagging.

Can anyone help me in ensuring the tagging info is included in this conversion process?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Mark

[felix26591]

I understand your problem, first of all verify if the FLAC files have tags, if they do that's not the problem and the problem would be the conversion from FLAC to MP3 and the problem would be the program. Try a diferent one maybe dbpoweramp, I've personally tried foobar2000 and it's worked perfectly for me. if you were in Ubuntu I could help you out a lot more. But first of all verify if your flacs have tags if they don't when you transcode to mp3 or any other lossy format they simply won't exist.

Hope it helps

felix

This post has been edited by greynol: Sep 22 2011, 00:21

Reason for edit: Removed unnecessary quote of the first post.

[mhack_52]

Hi Felix,

Thanks for your help! How does one verify the FLAC tagging is correct?

I have downloaded some FLAC files previously, and used Switch Sound File Converter Plus to do the conversion and all turned out well (the files imported right into iTunes and all of the proper information was in the right place). So I know it works. I am assuming there is something I am not doing correctly regarding the EAC ripping that is not formatting or storing the tag information correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Mark

This post has been edited by db1989: Sep 23 2011, 13:14

Reason for edit: see above

[felix26591]

Hey Mark,


To check if the FLAC files even have tags just open them either with a tag editor or download a player which plays FLAC such as foobar2000 and if it has tags they will show up correctly in the program. If they don't have tags you either have to add them manually or re-rip the disc using EAC and making sure that it analyzes the disc and recognizes it in freeddb or any of the CD databases that are around and autotags your music.


Felix

[mixminus1]

Mark, as a sanity check, your EAC "External Compression" command line should look something like this:

CODE

-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%

The -V is optional (verification), but everything that comes after that needs to be present in order for the flac.exe compressor to be able to add tags to the .flac files - EAC itself can't (well, not proper ones ).

[mhack_52]

Hey mixminus1,

I knew it was something simple that I had not configured properly. Your command line string did the trick! Many MANY thanks for your help!

Mark

This post has been edited by db1989: Sep 28 2011, 16:29

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