Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

[Truck3r]

Hi!

This subject has probably been discussed before, but I have not been able to find the answers by searching - so here I go...

I have a problem: My entire music collection is ripped (and tagged) in Ogg format - and my iPod doesn't play Ogg.
Solution: Convert all files to AAC using dBpoweramp/dMC.

So far so good...

When I ripped the music and tagged it, I used Winamp where I manually entered information like artist, title, track number, album, year (actually Winamp uses the Oggtag "DATE" for this) and genre. These all seems to be converted to sensible tags when i view the AAC file in iTunes afterwards, but...

Problem: In iTunes I can provide further information about my tracks like "total number of tracks", "total number of discs", "sort name", "sort artist" etc. which are not supported by Winamp (out-of-the-box)...

Question: What Oggtag names should I use for these fields to make them appear correctly in iTunes (when the tracks have been converted to AAC)?

[Spoon]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

dBpoweramp will normally automatically map the correct tags (ie DATE to YEAR).

[Truck3r]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

dBpoweramp will normally automatically map the correct tags (ie DATE to YEAR).

I am well aware of that - as I wrote:

These all seems to be converted to sensible tags when i view the AAC file in iTunes afterwards

As I stated later (and highlighted with bold) my question is:

Problem: In iTunes I can provide further information about my tracks like "total number of tracks", "total number of discs", "sort name", "sort artist" etc. which are not supported by Winamp (out-of-the-box)...

Question: What Oggtag names should I use for these fields to make them appear correctly in iTunes (when the tracks have been converted to AAC)?

[Wayne]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

As far as I am aware the "total number of discs" is part of the disc number tag i.e 1/2 in the same way that Track number can be 1 or 1/14.

Have you tried adding these "extra" tag information fields to a file from within iTunes and then checked using dMC to see how they are held?

[Truck3r]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

As far as I am aware the "total number of discs" is part of the disc number tag i.e 1/2 in the same way that Track number can be 1 or 1/14.

Have you tried adding these "extra" tag information fields to a file from within iTunes and then checked using dMC to see how they are held?

Thanks - that works really kool for tracks and discs - but Winamp is kind of funny this way - when i type 01/01 in the disc# field in Winamps tageditor, it is stored correct in the DISCNUMBER tag, but Winamp doesn't display the information if I open the tageditor again - it is however still saved in the file though...
This does not apply to track# - 11/17 is correctly displayed when I reopen the tageditor...

About the "Sort XXX" fields that are available in iTunes - I tried to enter something in these fields in an AAC file, but when I convert to Ogg, this information seems to be completely discarded, so I can't seem to figure out what to label "Sort Name", "Sort Artist" tags in Ogg files tå make them appear correctly when the file is converted to AAC - any clues?

Oh yeah - when I convert an AAC (which has track number information as well as total number of tracks) to Ogg, dMC converts that to 2 Ogg tags (TRACKNUMBER and TOTALTRACKS) - which then again confuses Winamp, as it only recognizes TRACKNUMBER - the other one is present in the file, but not used by Winamp. However as I am not going to convert from AAC to Ogg on a regular basis, this is not really an issue for me - just a curiosity - that the tag conversion done by dMC is not a 1:1 mapping

[Spoon]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

TOTALTRACKS has become the standard for Ogg / FLAC (Sonos and Squeezebox use them).

[Truck3r]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

TOTALTRACKS has become the standard for Ogg / FLAC (Sonos and Squeezebox use them).

I do believe you have the best intentions, but somehow you seem to keep popping up with random information about something I write. If you read the last paragraph closely, I think (hope) you will see, that I added this just as a curiosity - I have no interest in digging further into the use and standardization of TOTALTRACKS or whatever.

My question in the paragraph before is much more essential to me: Which tag-names should I use in my Ogg files to have the content of the tags converted properly to the AAC/iTunes tags called "Sort Name", "Sort Artist", "Sort Album" and all the other sort tags - can you help me here?

[Spoon]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

I do not know which tags iTunes uses for those.

[Wayne]

Re: Ogg to AAC Tag conversion

Maybe you could try posting your question here http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=idx