im not very good on computer i accidently cleaned tags with creative media toolbox on all flac files how can i restore them the easyist way a mass restoration that is i have over 50 files please help me the creative toolbox created backup maybe?
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im not very good on computer i accidently cleaned tags with creative media toolbox on all flac files how can i restore them the easyist way a mass restoration that is i have over 50 files please help me the creative toolbox created backup maybe?
I don't think it's possible to recover the removed tags with some kind of undelete operation. However, you could try to recreate the tags from several sources of information:
- filenames: Obviously this depends on the naming scheme you have used.
- freedb (or similar service): Allows you to retrieve tags for whole albums.
- MusicBrainz (or similar service): Allows you to retrieve tags for individual tracks.
I had once this problem.
Fortunately, the informations were still present in foobar2000's database, and I just had to "rewrite tags from database" [sth like that] to spare several hours of work.
If you're using fb2k (or a similar program - but I don't know anyone) there's still a chance
Fortunately, the informations were still present in foobar2000's database, and I just had to "rewrite tags from database" [sth like that] to spare several hours of work.
If you're using fb2k (or a similar program - but I don't know anyone) there's still a chance
Reripping from CD using a program that supports CDDB (eg EAC) is the surest way to go.
Barring that, WAV to FLAC with the FLAC Frontend can autodetect tagging info from a filename. Tick "Add tags" and go to "Tag Conf.". In "Tag Conf.", make sure "Auto detect" is set. Fill in the information for Artist, Album, Year, Genre and optionally Comment, which are meant to be the same for all files. As for the source files themselves, the WAVs, make sure you name them like this:
number - name.wav
For example:
01 - Toccata in F Major.wav
02 - Fugue in G Minor.wav
From those filenames, FLAC will take the number and assign it to the Track Number tag, and the name to the Title tag. It's the best way to ease the drudgery of tagging in case you haven't got CDDB available. The only snag is that you may have to shorten (no pun intended) some of the filenames after tagging and before burning the CD, because the Joliet filesystem has a limit on length (128 bytes per path, which equates to 64 characters per path, since Joliet uses UTF-16 Big Endian).
Barring that, WAV to FLAC with the FLAC Frontend can autodetect tagging info from a filename. Tick "Add tags" and go to "Tag Conf.". In "Tag Conf.", make sure "Auto detect" is set. Fill in the information for Artist, Album, Year, Genre and optionally Comment, which are meant to be the same for all files. As for the source files themselves, the WAVs, make sure you name them like this:
number - name.wav
For example:
01 - Toccata in F Major.wav
02 - Fugue in G Minor.wav
From those filenames, FLAC will take the number and assign it to the Track Number tag, and the name to the Title tag. It's the best way to ease the drudgery of tagging in case you haven't got CDDB available. The only snag is that you may have to shorten (no pun intended) some of the filenames after tagging and before burning the CD, because the Joliet filesystem has a limit on length (128 bytes per path, which equates to 64 characters per path, since Joliet uses UTF-16 Big Endian).
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