Ok, before I start I must say the people here seem extremly knowledagble about digital music. I thought I knew what I was talking about and when I read posts on here I can barely understand any of what is being discussed. It amazes me that this stuff is so deep.

Anyway, I just picked up an iPod for my windows machine. I've been using EAC to rip to WAVs and Nero 5.5 to encode to .mp4, then renaming the files .m4a so ephPod can read them and transfer them. My questions are these:

1) I know there is no tagging standard yet for AAC/MP4 but there are a few ways to do it. Is there any tagging method that works so ephPod will read the tags so they are imported into my iPod correctly? I've been doing them all manually, which isn't so bad except ephPod dosen't remember the tags, so whatever I delete from the iPod I have to retag when I want to put it back on. There must be a way to make permanent tags.

and 2) It would be nice if that tagging method was supported by a computer program that would play m4a files too. I don't care what program, be it Foobar, WinAmp, whatever, I would just like some way to play the files on the PC as well with the tags.

Thank you very much.

I understand the latest beta of Foobar does exactly this. Get it from Case's Foobar2000 page. See more in the Foobar 0.7 Public Test thread. Also, search before posting next time, as I recall this question having been answered before.

Nero 6 does this also; the demo will be released tomorrow (July 18) if you'd like to try it out.

Edit: Hmmm, it's July 18 in Germany and it still hasn't been released. I guess they're going to wait until the morning...

it would be also create if faac's in_mp4 could be updated to read such tags...