FLAC to mp3: Comments screwed up

[drbanks]

Converting some FLACs to MP3s, when I'm done, I only see the first line of the comments from the original FLAC in Tag&Rename. If I dump the resulting mp3, I see each comment line has been placed on its own ID3 COMM tag, even though the original FLAC had the entire multiline text under a single COMMENT tag.

Is there any way to induce the converter to write all the lines to a single ID3 COMM tag?

Windows system, if this is a line-ending issue.

advTHANKSance

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC to mp3: Comments screwed up

Which version of dBpoweramp do you have?

[drbanks]

Re: FLAC to mp3: Comments screwed up

dBpoweramp 64-bit: Registered Reference
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Sorry I didn't think of that on my own.

[drbanks]

Re: FLAC to mp3: Comments screwed up

Snippet of the tags in question

MP3:

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00000060h: 54 43 4F 4E 00 00 00 11 00 00 01 FF FE 52 00 65 00 67 00 67 00 61 00 65 00 00 00 54 59 45 52 00 ; TCON.......ÿþR.e.g.g.a.e...TYER.
00000080h: 00 00 06 00 00 00 31 39 38 32 00 54 52 43 4B 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 30 31 00 54 50 45 31 00 00 00 ; ......1982.TRCK.......01.TPE1...
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000001e0h: 00 6B 00 5F 00 63 00 6F 00 64 00 65 00 3D 00 78 00 6D 00 32 00 25 00 32 00 36 00 63 00 61 00 6D ; .k._.c.o.d.e.=.x.m.2.%.2.6.c.a.m
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00000260h: 00 6E 00 2E 00 63 00 6F 00 6D 00 2F 00 67 00 70 00 2F 00 72 00 65 00 64 00 69 00 72 00 65 00 63 ; .n...c.o.m./.g.p./.r.e.d.i.r.e.c
00000280h: 00 74 00 2E 00 68 00 74 00 6D 00 6C 00 25 00 32 00 35 00 33 00 66 00 41 00 53 00 49 00 4E 00 3D ; .t...h.t.m.l.%.2.5.3.f.A.S.I.N.=
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000002c0h: 00 61 00 67 00 3D 00 73 00 6F 00 66 00 74 00 70 00 6F 00 69 00 6E 00 74 00 65 00 72 00 2D 00 32 ; .a.g.=.s.o.f.t.p.o.i.n.t.e.r.-.2
000002e0h: 00 30 00 25 00 32 00 35 00 32 00 36 00 6C 00 63 00 6F 00 64 00 65 00 3D 00 78 00 6D 00 32 00 25 ; .0.%.2.5.2.6.l.c.o.d.e.=.x.m.2.%
00000300h: 00 32 00 35 00 32 00 36 00 63 00 49 00 44 00 3D 00 32 00 30 00 32 00 35 00 25 00 32 00 35 00 32 ; .2.5.2.6.c.I.D.=.2.0.2.5.%.2.5.2
00000320h: 00 36 00 63 00 63 00 6D 00 49 00 44 00 3D 00 31 00 36 00 35 00 39 00 35 00 33 00 25 00 32 00 35 ; .6.c.c.m.I.D.=.1.6.5.9.5.3.%.2.5
00000340h: 00 32 00 36 00 6C 00 6F 00 63 00 61 00 74 00 69 00 6F 00 6E 00 3D 00 2F 00 6F 00 2F 00 41 00 53 ; .2.6.l.o.c.a.t.i.o.n.=./.o./.A.S
00000360h: 00 49 00 4E 00 2F 00 42 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 36 00 36 00 39 00 4A 00 4F 00 25 00 32 00 35 ; .I.N./.B.0.0.0.0.6.6.9.J.O.%.2.5
00000380h: 00 32 00 35 00 33 00 46 00 53 00 75 00 62 00 73 00 63 00 72 00 69 00 70 00 74 00 69 00 6F 00 6E ; .2.5.3.F.S.u.b.s.c.r.i.p.t.i.o.n
000003a0h: 00 49 00 64 00 3D 00 30 00 52 00 58 00 4A 00 53 00 32 00 36 00 43 00 38 00 30 00 51 00 53 00 44 ; .I.d.=.0.R.X.J.S.2.6.C.8.0.Q.S.D
000003c0h: 00 45 00 42 00 35 00 36 00 43 00 52 00 32 00 00 00 43 4F 4D 4D 00 00 00 4C 00 00 01 65 6E 67 FF ; .E.B.5.6.C.R.2...COMM...L...engÿ
000003e0h: FE 00 00 FF FE 20 00 52 00 65 00 76 00 69 00 65 00 77 00 20 00 62 00 79 00 20 00 57 00 69 00 6C ; þ..ÿþ .R.e.v.i.e.w. .b.y. .W.i.l
00000400h: 00 6C 00 69 00 61 00 6D 00 20 00 52 00 75 00 68 00 6C 00 6D 00 61 00 6E 00 6E 00 20 00 20 00 5B ; .l.i.a.m. .R.u.h.l.m.a.n.n. . .[
00000420h: 00 2D 00 5D 00 00 00 43 4F 4D 4D 00 00 00 0E 00 00 01 65 6E 67 FF FE 00 00 FF FE 0A 00 00 00 43 ; .-.]...COMM.......engÿþ..ÿþ....C
00000440h: 4F 4D 4D 00 00 0E 58 00 00 01 65 6E 67 FF FE 00 00 FF FE 0A 00 44 00 65 00 73 00 70 00 69 00 74 ; OMM...X...engÿþ..ÿþ..D.e.s.p.i.t
00000460h: 00 65 00 20 00 69 00 74 00 73 00 20 00 6D 00 61 00 73 00 73 00 69 00 76 00 65 00 20 00 63 00 6F ; .e. .i.t.s. .m.a.s.s.i.v.e. .c.o
00000480h: 00 6D 00 6D 00 65 00 72 00 63 00 69 00 61 00 6C 00 20 00 73 00 75 00 63 00 63 00 65 00 73 00 73 ; .m.m.e.r.c.i.a.l. .s.u.c.c.e.s.s
000004a0h: 00 2C 00 20 00 4C 00 65 00 67 00 65 00 6E 00 64 00 2C 00 20 00 74 00 68 00 65 00 20 00 31 00 39 ; .,. .L.e.g.e.n.d.,. .t.h.e. .1.9
000004c0h: 00 38 00 34 00 20 00 42 00 6F 00 62 00 20 00 4D 00 61 00 72 00 6C 00 65 00 79 00 20 00 26 00 20 ; .8.4. .B.o.b. .M.a.r.l.e.y. .&. [/SIZE]

FLAC/VORBIS:

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0000acc0h: 62 46 4C 41 43 20 31 2E 31 2E 32 20 32 30 30 35 30 32 30 35 0C 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 45 4E 53 45 ; bFLAC 1.1.2 20050205....!...ENSE
0000ace0h: 4D 42 4C 45 3D 42 6F 62 20 4D 61 72 6C 65 79 20 26 20 54 68 65 20 57 61 69 6C 65 72 73 14 00 00 ; MBLE=Bob Marley & The Wailers...
0000ad00h: 00 54 49 54 4C 45 3D 4E 61 74 75 72 61 6C 20 4D 79 73 74 69 63 1F 00 00 00 41 52 54 49 53 54 3D ; .TITLE=Natural Mystic....ARTIST=
0000ad20h: 42 6F 62 20 4D 61 72 6C 65 79 20 26 20 54 68 65 20 57 61 69 6C 65 72 73 14 00 00 00 41 4C 42 55 ; Bob Marley & The Wailers....ALBU
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0000ad60h: 00 47 45 4E 52 45 3D 52 65 67 67 61 65 16 0A 00 00 43 4F 4D 4D 45 4E 54 3D 20 52 65 76 69 65 77 ; .GENRE=Reggae....COMMENT= Review
0000ad80h: 20 62 79 20 57 69 6C 6C 69 61 6D 20 52 75 68 6C 6D 61 6E 6E 20 20 5B 2D 5D 0D 0A 0D 0A 44 65 73 ; by William Ruhlmann [-]....Des
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0000ae40h: 73 73 65 6D 62 6C 65 64 20 74 6F 20 68 69 67 68 6C 69 67 68 74 20 4D 61 72 6C 65 79 27 73 20 55 ; ssembled to highlight Marley's U
0000ae60h: 2E 4B 2E 20 68 69 74 20 73 69 6E 67 6C 65 73 20 6F 66 20 74 68 65 20 6C 61 74 65 20 27 37 30 73 ; .K. hit singles of the late '70s
0000ae80h: 20 61 6E 64 20 73 65 72 69 6F 75 73 6C 79 20 75 6E 64 65 72 72 65 70 72 65 73 65 6E 74 65 64 20 ; and seriously underrepresented
0000aea0h: 68 69 73 20 65 61 72 6C 79 20 73 74 61 6E 64 61 72 64 73 2E 20 59 6F 75 20 6D 69 67 68 74 20 74 ; his early standards. You might t
0000aec0h: 68 69 6E 6B 2C 20 74 68 65 72 65 66 6F 72 65 2C 20 74 68 61 74 20 31 31 20 79 65 61 72 73 20 6C ; hink, therefore, that 11 years l
0000aee0h: 61 74 65 72 2C 20 77 68 65 6E 20 49 73 6C 61 6E 64 20 52 65 63 6F 72 64 73 20 66 69 6E 61 6C 6C ; ater, when Island Records finall[/SIZE]

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC to mp3: Comments screwed up

Will take a look at it for the next beta.