For the past years, whenever I had to tag music I just casually the title and artist using automated tools and I was a happy camper. However, now I'm trying to archive a bunch of discs and I've read a bit more into music tagging and damn that's a rabbit hole.
From what I understand, MP3 files use ID3 tags which have a formal standard set of tags. FLAC files on the other hand use Vorbis Comments that only have a specification of how to store the tags and not a specification of predefined tagnames. Thus, you end up with this stupid situation where program A uses tagname A and program B uses tagname B (especially for less commonly used tags).
This is annoying when tagging files, but this gets especially tricky when converting from one format to the other (ID3 <-> Vorbis). It seems DBPowerAmp converter takes the easy route when converting Vorbis to ID3 and converts most 'unknown' tags to custom ID3 tags TXXX/[tagname]. However, I don't want that for tags that actually have a ID3 counterpart in the specification.
For example, I'm using a Vorbis tag SETSUBTITLE (though DISCSUBTITLE is also commonly used for the same purpose). ID3 V2.4 has this same tag in the specification as TSST, which can be seen here https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/mappings/ and here https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping
DBPowerAmp Converter however, just converts it to TXXX/SETSUBTITLE instead of TSST.
And SETSUBTITLE is not the only one, there are more tags converted like this.
So, my question is: is it possible to define custom tag mappings when converting from FLAC to MP3?
From what I understand, MP3 files use ID3 tags which have a formal standard set of tags. FLAC files on the other hand use Vorbis Comments that only have a specification of how to store the tags and not a specification of predefined tagnames. Thus, you end up with this stupid situation where program A uses tagname A and program B uses tagname B (especially for less commonly used tags).
This is annoying when tagging files, but this gets especially tricky when converting from one format to the other (ID3 <-> Vorbis). It seems DBPowerAmp converter takes the easy route when converting Vorbis to ID3 and converts most 'unknown' tags to custom ID3 tags TXXX/[tagname]. However, I don't want that for tags that actually have a ID3 counterpart in the specification.
For example, I'm using a Vorbis tag SETSUBTITLE (though DISCSUBTITLE is also commonly used for the same purpose). ID3 V2.4 has this same tag in the specification as TSST, which can be seen here https://picard.musicbrainz.org/docs/mappings/ and here https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping
DBPowerAmp Converter however, just converts it to TXXX/SETSUBTITLE instead of TSST.
And SETSUBTITLE is not the only one, there are more tags converted like this.
So, my question is: is it possible to define custom tag mappings when converting from FLAC to MP3?
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