Preserving Ratings when converting?

[ailean]

Hi,
I'm starting to look at using some sort of rating scheme to help organise my collection. As I use DMC to transcode everything I've been looking at the MMC star rating method. It seems to change the mod date on a file that you rate but it doesn't appear to store the rating in the file as a copy doesn't maintain it. Also any conversions with DMC loose the rating even from Right-Clicking within MMC.

This seems somewhat less then desireable.

I know some other schemes store ratings in tags, any ideas on a method that would give me some commonality between these formats/devices?

Main Archive: FLAC
Transcoded to: MP3 (LameAltNorm), MP3 (LameAltExem), Ogg (Q5)
Devices: PC (WinAmp5), iPod, Zen, Karma, SqueezeBox2

And I take it there's still no common way to carry album art from one format to another with DMC? :D

[LtData]

Re: Preserving Ratings when converting?

Album art is still not supported, correct. I think the ratings information is stored in the MMC itself. Are you using the latest dAP beta?

[ailean]

Re: Preserving Ratings when converting?

Yeah I think so, just downloaded and installed the one from the beta forum yesterday.

As I'm in the midst of reorganising my folder structures again I think taging is the safest thing for my main archive (FLAC).

What does DMC do exactly when you have "Preserve ID tags" selected? Will it copy all tags or just a predefined set of common tags? If I create a custom FLAC tag will it copy throu to Ogg and Mp3, is there a tag that already has some support in these formats or am I going to have to make do with just sticking a number as the first character of the Comment tag? (About the only thing I can think of that might work).