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Up until about 18 months ago I used EAC and MP3Tag to rip/tag my CDs. This was on a computer that has been decommissioned for almost a year so I have no access to my old rip/tag environment but it is very clear from looking at the FLAC files in my Squeezebox library that these files have been tagged with ID3v2.3.0 and ID3v1.1 format tags. People in the Squeezebox forum are all telling me that ID3 tags in FLAC files is a bad idea and that they should all be Vorbis so, although I don't plan to do anything immediately because all these files work OK, I would like to understand what I could do to fix the situation without re-ripping over 600 CDs from the original media.
Am I doomed? The thing that worries me is that in dMC there is an option on the FLAC codec to set the tag type to ID3 (various versions) or Vorbis and I have played with this option on a few new rips and it does behave as expected. I'm scared that at rip time there is something set in the header of a container somewhere in the file that says what format of tags should be written into that container so, even if I deleted all tags on one of these old FLAC files and added them back with dMC, it would read this flag on the container, see that the files were originally created to have ID3 format tags, and so write the replacement tags as ID3 format and leave me back where I started.
Are my fears justified?
Is there any way to migrate the flags on my old FLAC files to be Vorbis comments without re-ripping from source?
Do you share the view of the people in the SB forum that ID3 in FLAC is a bad thing to do? (I did notice that the option in dMC to set it for the FLAC codec does say "(not recommended)" next to it so I'm guessing that the answer is yes on this question.)
- Julian
Am I doomed? The thing that worries me is that in dMC there is an option on the FLAC codec to set the tag type to ID3 (various versions) or Vorbis and I have played with this option on a few new rips and it does behave as expected. I'm scared that at rip time there is something set in the header of a container somewhere in the file that says what format of tags should be written into that container so, even if I deleted all tags on one of these old FLAC files and added them back with dMC, it would read this flag on the container, see that the files were originally created to have ID3 format tags, and so write the replacement tags as ID3 format and leave me back where I started.
Are my fears justified?
Is there any way to migrate the flags on my old FLAC files to be Vorbis comments without re-ripping from source?
Do you share the view of the people in the SB forum that ID3 in FLAC is a bad thing to do? (I did notice that the option in dMC to set it for the FLAC codec does say "(not recommended)" next to it so I'm guessing that the answer is yes on this question.)
- Julian
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