I was just refered here from another post..I've been reading the posts and I'm about to convert my Music Library from FLAC 1.12 to 1.13 because of the Album Art support. I still have to simple questions...

1) I use with CDex the string

-8 -V -o %2 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%b" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%tn/%tt" -T "genre=%g" -"

Do I need to change anything?

2) How can I add the Album Art to my files after I convert from 1.12 to 1.13?

actually you can convert without reripping, just do something like:


the encoder will recompress the FLAC file and copy over all the metadata, and store the cover art in one step.


for the syntax of the --picture option see here

Josh

Is there a Frontend I can use to make the 1.12 >>>1.13 conversion. CDex doesn't allow me to do it. It only has the options to convert from Compressed to Wav and viceversa. It doesn't do Compressed to Compressed.

foobar2000

I thought Foobar had native FLAC support. How can I make it use the new one instead of the one that comes with it? I'm using Foobar2000 v0.9.4.1

fb2k decodes FLAC natively, but its Converter uses flac.exe for encoding.

Is there any special trick to it? I just tried f2k and the encoded files say library version 1.1.2. I just ripped them with CDex and the ripped ones say 1.1.3. What am I missing?

PS I'm thinking of giving up...

Yes, although the "special trick" is really simple. Instead of using foobar's built-in encoder you can add a new encoding preset in the converter's options and select a custom encoder which points to the version 1.1.3 flac.exe installed on your machine. To make things even easier you can click on "Add New", then select "FLAC" in the "Encoder" dropdown menu, afterwards choose "Custom" (using the mouse, not the keyboard's arrow keys, otherwise you'll get a preset suitable for WavPack). By doing so foobar will automatically choose some adequate encoder settings for the FLAC codec, e.g. the correct file extension and the recommended parameters (FLAC -5), saving you some time.

Edit: Grammar, grammar!

Dude! That's exactly how I did it...Now what?

PS I'll have to switch to Apple Lossless reluctantly...

Well, you have to right-click your 1.1.2 FLAC files in foobar, then choose "Convert" ---> "Convert to..." in the dropdown menu. In the follow-up encoder setup window you select your new 1.1.3 FLAC encoding preset and click on "OK", beginning the conversion.

I don't quite know why this hasn't worked for you so far, especially if you had already created a custom preset the way I described in my previous posting. Maybe you accidently chose the built-in encoder in the "Encoding Preset" menu? If yes, give your custom preset an obvious name which makes it unmistakable to the built-in FLAC preset.

When I created the custom one I named it FLAC 1.1.3. beta so I knew the one I was choosing. Thanks for your help everybody, but I'm officially calling it quits. It's not worth the headaches. I'll keep waiting for 1.1.3 final to be included in a future release of f2k, then I'll make the conversion and add the art.

You can simply move FLAC 1.1.2 somewhere safe, and move FLAC 1.1.3 beta 2 to where the old .exe file was.

When you convert, just make sure your new files go somewhere other than where your source files were. (In other words, don't let your new files overwrite your old files.)

Been there, done that...

If you used foobar2000 to check, and if you overwrote the old files with the new ones, you can reload info from the new files.

-8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

That is the EAC compression string I use with EAC to give even better compression using 1.1.3 Beta 2.

http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sour...3-beta2-win.zip

TOS #5. The OP did not request your EAC command line that gets you 0.1% better compression than the default (and takes twice as long), and he obviously already has 1.1.3b2. Please, stay on topic.