CoolEdit deletes album, title and track number information from mp3 file during reencoding.
I use CoolEdit's Batch Convert feature to recompress e.g. audiobook recorded with very narrow stereo image at 256 kbps to 64 kbps.
The hard way to preserve tags is first to rename file names according to tags, then reencode, then get tags from file names and then rename filenames back (which is the hardest part) to preserve e.g. audiobook integrity.
I wish to know is there any other possibility to export album and title names e.g. to playlist and then import them back.
I know TagRename and Winamp can export tag information to *.m3u list, but non of them can import it back!
Or maybe there is any other program which uses original fast and high quality Fraunhauer engine to reencode files while preserving tags. I know MusicMuchJukebox does, but the files it produces are lower quality output then CoolEdit. Also WMP could do this, but I am not shure about quality at high compression rates. Also there is CDEx with lame encoder which I used for quite long time before, but then I discovered that some disks encoded at 160 VBR 0 (highest quality) actually are spoiled.

I found it!
I did a search in this forum, found program mp3tag, and found copy and paste tags feature!
Thank you!

You might also use foobar to reencode. If it is set up properly, it will write the tags to the target files.

No, thanks, I am happy with CoolEdit.
But now I have different problem with Cool.
It does not see the audio CD, to extract audio.
Of course I can extract it first to *.wav with any other program, but is not there quick way to fix Cool? Who knows what is wrong?
The ASPI layer is up-to-date (4.6).

You have had two problems with CE and are happy with it, huh?

Well personally, I think that CoolEdit would be overkill for such an operation. Another vote for foobar2000 from me (Actually it doesn't need any special setup just to transcode the way you want).

Edit: Another thing: You search for Fhg fast and high quality encoder? Did you ever consider using lame, especially at such low bitrate?

Foobar can also copy tags from one set consisting of one or more files to another set. First add all originals to the playlist then also the files you transcoded using the other program (in matching order). Then select them all and choose Masstagger -> Copy tags (v0.8).

Personally, I think you should first convert your files to true mono instead of "narrow stereo separation" if you need 64 kBit/s. This way you'll produce normal quality files.

There's no clear indicator that LAME was better than FhG at 64 kbit/s. On these boards, I remember Gabriel having stated that LAME was lacking optimizations needed for low bitrates - despite FhG, which utilizes Intensity Stereo. Here's the link: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=369896

Of course, in this single case the stereo issue wouldn't be of much importance, as filo74 mentioned here:

Therefore I second the recommendation made by j7n.

Edit: Grammar, grammar!

Did you check the box to save non-audio data? There's one in CEP 2.1. Not sure what you're using. Or just use fb2k instead.