FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

[trusted-1]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

If you can send a small flac file:

Album art support in dbpoweramp is quite a long way off.

Spoon, I sent a file under 3MB so I hope it comes through. The files are organized in directories like: \Artist\Album\Songs.

Since Escient does not seem to have a good solution to Fireball/iPod integration and if dMC could be made to work with these files (even without the cover art) it could be a great source of sales of your software. I would venture to guess that virtually all purchasers of Fireballs are likely to have iPods too. Although you can choose to use MP3/320kbps to store files on the Fireball and avoid all this trouble, the FLAC option preserves the integrety of the music and is the preferred storage format IMHO. The better sound quality is the main reason for using the Fireball music server. Although the iPod is a GREAT portable MP3 player, it is not as good of a home music server as the Fireball.

Thanks,
Steve Folwell
Music & Movies by Mastercraft
San Diego

[trusted-1]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Spoon,

Were you able to retreive the Fireball produced FLAC file I sent and if so were you able to determine anything from it?

Thanks,
Trusted-1

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Will be looking at it real soon.

[trusted-1]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Will be looking at it real soon.

Any luck with this issue of not preserving the ID3v2 tags when converting from FLAC to MP3 yet? You may recall that the Escient Fireball produces a FLAC file with an ID3v2 tag including cover art.

WinAmp with the flac and lame plug ins does the job but then requires a tag tool to rename/create directories the files using the tag information. This preserves the ID3v2 tag information including the cover art on the created files but requires the additional step(s)

Ultimately my goal is to be able to use your tools to go directly from the networked Fireball library to the iPod.

Thanks, Steve

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Finishing a new FLAC codec, the album art will be dropped on conversion.

[jmstacey]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Is there any chance of carrying over the album art so use of the ipod photo's can be made?

[LtData]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Album art is not supported in any way and won't be for a good while, sorry.

[jmstacey]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Any time frame? (other than long time) doesn't just the album art database need to be created in a similar way that itunesdb does?

[LtData]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

The thing about album art is there is no standard implementation across all formats, each format has their own implementation.

[jmstacey]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

Since the ipod only supports a few codecs, mainly mp3 and acc, I'm only after mp3 right now. (And flac for conversions, but that's a different matter).

[LtData]

Re: FLAC to MP3 - No ID tags!

But this would require putting album art support in mp3, m4a, aac, flac, and figuring out how they support album art and how it is embedded in the file. Right now, that is not a priority. It will be handled eventually.