nicktf said the following on 14/12/2005 13:47: > JulianL Wrote: > >> >>I've been reading up on TAG.EXE and did some experiments and for me at >>least it seems that it would be far more useful if the script used the >>command in the following form: >> >>TAG.EXE --fromfile <original FLAC file> <converted MP3 file> >> >>The fromfile option basically tells it to copy the tags from the FLAC >>file to the MP3 file. >> >>- Julian > > > I really wish I'd read the TAG.EXE documentation before knocking out > that script - My file names are pretty tidy and about 90% of the tags I > generated were OK for an iPOD, though I had problems with long filenames > and some album titles. The --Fromfile would have been really sensible > (doh!). Look forward to the refreshed script. > > I must admit to not really getting to the bottom of Tagging in general, > I tagged all my FLACs with MusicBrainz, but looking at them, I think > this writes ID3v2 tags, and Slimpy's post indicates I should have used > Vorbis comments?
Reading and writing audio file tags is not straight-forward, as you've found. I believe I've resolved most issues with my flac2mp3 script, available at http://projects.robinbowes.com/flac2mp3 R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
