Hello everyone,

I've downloaded Case's TAG v2.0.37 and I'm using it to convert all my ID3v2 tags to APEv2 tags. (I must admit that Foobar2000 is very persuasive, since I wouldn't be doing this conversion if I didn't love FB2K)

What I'm doing is the following:

tag --tofilen output.txt song.mp3

and immediately afterwards:

tag --removeid3v2 --force APEv2 --fromfile output.txt song.mp3

But it's a two-step process, and I suppose that there must be a better method to do the ID3v2->APEv2 conversion.

Do you know how to do this in one step, please?

Thanks a million.
Regards.

What about:

tag --removeid3v2 --force APE2 song.mp3

?

Hi /\/ephaestous,

I tried that before but it didn't work for me...

Ooops, sorry, I'm re-testing again and it does work. I thought it didn't because I just double-clicked the song and checked the tag with Foobar2000, but I forgot that foobar hadn't refreshed the tag!

I clicked "reload info from file" and now it works.

Thank you.

hey there. I just tried this:
tag --removeid3v2 --force APE2

to get rid of id3v2 and convert to ape2. it works, the problem is this line also deletes the id3v1 tag, which I'd like to keep as my portable needs such tags. Is this possible? What commandline should I use?

Hello,

Try this:

tag --removeid3v2 --force ID3v1 --force APEv2 song.mp3

Remember that the order of the tags is very important. The first tag in the command line is always written at the end of the mp3 file. This is because tags are read/written from back to front.

Cheers.

I use this to get rid of any and all tags and just have tag rewrite the id3v1 and ape2 from scratch

tag --recursive --remove --force ape2 --force id3 *.mp3

<edit> gets rid of Lyrics tags etc from downloads that I personally have no use for