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philaphonic
I am hvaing some difficulty converting my FLAC files to LAME and not having truncation in the latter's tags.

What is the best way to convert FLACs to MP3s and leave all Vorbis tags intact?
Sebastian Mares
Use fb2k for conversion or use Mp3tag for tagging - it can copy and paste tags from one format to another.
esa372
As suggested, foobar2000 works great.

I can also recommend Speek's Multi-Frontend and/or All2LAME.
philaphonic
Well, I have tried both of the (Foobar 2000) and All2LAME and both are losing the track info. They're truncating things at 30 characters.

Maybe the tagging I am using in EAC is wrong. Here's what I use to produce the FLAC Vorbis tags in EAC:

-8 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T comment="%e" -T "comment=Ripped with EAC" %s

Am I missing something here? I use the 3.97 Beta 2 command line for LAME. I am then using QCD Player to view the file tags. Maybe QCD is where the problem lies. I shouldn't perhaps rely on it to show me the true tagging?
Egor
QUOTE(philaphonic @ Jul 2 2006, 22:20) *
Well, I have tried both of the (Foobar 2000) and All2LAME and both are losing the track info. They're truncating things at 30 characters.

foobar2000 writes both ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.4 tags by default, ID3v1 has 30 chars limitation and QCD player apparently doesn't recongise ID3v2.4 tags. You should contact the developers of QCD and ask them about ID3v2.4 tag support.
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