Hi,

I´m a newby and I´m looking for a solution for the following riddle:

All of my files were ripped with EAC and encoded with FLAC 1.1.2 (with the recommended settings).
I can play the files with severeal players and edit them with several taggers without any problems.
The Tags appear in a correct form. So far, so good.

Except my DJ mixing program. No way to show the tags with my own flac files. The support has no idea, because the program supports Flac Tags as "read only" and "standard", the tags are -title, -artist, -album, -label, -genre, -ranking.

Today I downloaded some strange Flac files - and those files (but not all files) show their Flac Tags in the DJ mixer!!!

Why? How could I find out the (probably) different way of tagging?

Could I manage this in the EAC setup or in the command line of Flac.exe?

Is there any idea?

Thank you very much in advance,
Hasenmann59

Sounds like your DJ mixing program may be reading only MP3 style IDv1 or IDv2 tags, which ARE NOT supported for FLAC files (although some programmers who write apps don't realize that). The only officially supported FLAC tagging standard is Ogg Vorbis style tags. The other IDv1 or IDv2 tags may or may not cause problems when embedded inside FLAC files, and that is likely your issue. The FLAC file you downloaded may have been written with IDv2 tagging or else your files were. Somewhere your tags are likely not in Ogg Vorbis standard format (or perhaps they are but the DJ program is only looking for IDv2 tags like it is used to doing for MP3 files). Hope this helps.

Hi goodnews,

thank you for your prompt reply.

The flac files ripped and encoded by myself should include the official flag tags. I used only flac 1.1.2 with the recommended command line in EAC.

The strange files may include also (or instead of?) IDv2 tags. I think you are right at this point of view.

However, those strange files are readable and playable in my severeal players AND in the dj tool.

Do you know any workaround to include IDV2 tags in addition to the official flac tags into my whole file collection? Is there a software to analyze the included tags in the files?

Best Regards,
hasenmann59

I am not an expert in IDv2 tagging nor FLAC tagging, so I will let someone more versed in tagging tell you how to determine what kind of tags your progams and 1 problem file have. Unfortunately, many FLAC supporting apps were written with MP3 tagging in mind, thus the authors support IDv2/IDv1 tags only, Ogg Vorbis tags only, or both kinds of tags for FLAC files. This is totally author dependent. Josh Coalson, the primary author of FLAC, has stated on his site and on this forum that Ogg Vorbis style tags are "the only" officially supported tags for FLAC files. Any use of extra IDv2 tags or only IDv2 tags is not the officially supported FLAC tagging method, but may work. I hope I got the "jist" of what Josh was talking about referring to FLAC tagging... Others will likely chime in with more to help you.