Hey all,

I am a 73 year old man who just finished getting his CD collection copied from CD's onto his hard drive. I did this in FLAC format for use on my Squeezebox 2 device and my son just bought me a Rio Karma. I know FLAC files will play on the Rio, but I want to have more music with me when I go on my trips, a cruise is coming up in June.

So, I have spent the better half of the past 2 weeks playing around with foobar as I was told that was the best way to get from FLAC to MP3....and last night I did have success. I finially got the output settings so it would create the structure I want (artist/album/titles) I think this is the one I am using

$if2(%artist%,)\$if2(%album%,)\%_filename%

Anyway, when I import my files into the Rio Music Manager, the Tag information (like the Genere, year, title, album, artist) isn't there, and when I look at the file properties in windows there isn't any of that info there.

Is there a way to get that tag info, I guess it is the ID version somthing something I need?

I have looked for 2 weeks for this info and have just given up......any thoughts are appreciated

Hi

I've searched on the website of rio, it seems that you need to convert APEv2 tags to ID3v2, to do it, just follow the things said here:

you must have enabled your database in the panel preferences =>core=>database
then read this :
http://eolindel.free.fr/foobar/tags.html
or just read this paragraph:
To convert your apev2 tags to id3v2, load all the files into the playlist, select them, and then choose "rewrite file tags from database" (after having gone to standard input and selected id3v2). depending on the amount of file this will take LONG and make fb2k seem as if it is "frozen" - but it isn't (written by Lyx)

It may work (at least I hope so)

It looks like Rio Music Manager can deal with ID3v2 on FLAC files, but not FLAC-native comments.

foobar2000 only writes FLAC-native comments to FLAC fiiles.

foobar2000 cannot write ID3v2 on it's own. It can, if you have an ID3v2 plugin installed, but then, it only writes it to MP3 files if you explicitly tell it to do it. It can't write ID3v2 to FLAC files.

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You'd probably have to use another program if you want to put ID3v2 on FLAC files.

edit: ID3 on FLAC is not illegal, but is discouraged. If you want ID3v1 on FLAC, I think you can use Case's Tag to do that.

In foobar2000 check under Preferences -> Components for "ID3v2 tag support". If the 3rd party plugin foo_ID3v2.dll didn't come with your foobar2000 installation, you can download it at : http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/kode54/index.php?s=d&o=d (just drop the .dll in the foobar2000/components directory)

The option to turn on ID3 tag writing, as Bachi-Bouzouk described, can be found in Preferences -> Playback -> Input -> Standard Inputs -> MP3 tag writing

First, I want to thank all of you for your help, it did the trick! I hate asking for help when I know the answer it out there somewhere, so thanks for being so kind. Now to get my music ready for the cruise!

I am noticing one other small issue, if anyone can help out that would be great, I am not just starting to see if I can find a solution on my own.

I am finding that when I drag and drop a directory strucutre, or even a folder with subfolders in it into foobar for converting, I am getting 2 of every file created. As an example, when I drag my Tony Bennett folder which has 10 subfolders...each for a different album.....and I select convert......it does create the same directory structer but it also places those same MP3's out in the root directory...

For example, if I tell it to convert the files to the root of my M: drive, I will have the directory structer with the MP3 in the right place, but I will also have identical MP3's at the root level of M:

Here is the output line I am using

$if2(%artist%,)\$if2(%album%,)\%_filename%

I also have "create subdirectories" checked.........

I hate to be a bother