I have spent the weekend ripping 200 CDs (600 left to go). I ripped them as flac, using "Easy CD-DA Extractor", letting it retrieve album info from freedb, figuring I'd go back in and use another tool )Tag&Rename, Album Cover Art Downloader, etc) to add album covers later. I am now discovering the "joys" of freedb and various other tag sources, the wide variability in tag quality, and how labor-intensive this task is, especially compared to using WMP to do the ripping and tagging. What has become clear is that, for whatever reason, WMP has access to much better data sources than most of the other tools I've found (I've tried Tag&Rename, mp3Tag, Abander TagControl, and Album Cover Art Downloader). I've even done some side-by-side tests, CDs that give all my other tools heartburn in terms of getting good tags and album art, have no troubles getting high-quality tags and art in WMP with virtually no effort required.
Still, I'd like to keep my music files as FLAC if possible - but a primary requirement for me is to have accurate tags and album art for my 800 CDs. I've tried using WMP to read my flac files, using the illiminable plug-in, figuring that perhaps then I could use WMP to get the tags - and discovered that this plug-in allows WMP to play flac files but doesn't read/update the tags. I have discovered that if I convert the files from flac to wma lossless, WMP then retrieves the tags properly - though I prefer not to go that route if I can avoid it. Is there any way to get high-quality tags and album art for flac, without going through an insane amount of work? Is there a better/different ripping tool I should be using? -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20333 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
