Some TAGS not converted Apple Losless (M4a) to MP3

[allanwade]

I just converted over 9000 songs using DB Poweramp from Apple Lossless (generated from iTunes) to MP3's. I used the DB Poweramps built in MP3 converter (ALT Preset Extreme) and the Apple Lossless plug in.
The conversion went without a hitch (and took 4 days) except when I started checking out the MP3's I noticed the following:

The Tag Field "Part of Compilation" did not get moved to the MP3's Tag Field during the converstion. I had to manually go in (with iTunes) and fix them. I found this because I had a ton of extra MP3 folders.

Any Genre that I added to the iTunes provided list did not get transferred. This may have been due to the way I named them. They were mostly kids music, so I would add a Genre entry like Childrens Music / Pop or Childrens Music / Soundtrack.

Disc# on Mult Disc sets did not transfer, nor did the prefix on any of the tracks of the songs file name (1-01 Song Title.m4a converted to 01 Song Title.MP3).

The Composer field did not transfer.

All other tag fields and file names were fine. Definitely a great product!!

Thanks,
Allan

[LtData]

Re: Some TAGS not converted Apple Losless (M4a) to MP3

dMC doesn't transfer custom genres that were made in other programs, nor non-standard tagging fields (i.e. your Part of Compilation and Composer).
Not sure about the Disc# part, though.

[Spoon]

Re: Some TAGS not converted Apple Losless (M4a) to MP3

Default tags writing for mp3 is 'APE2 and ID3v1' iTunes can only read id3v1 which will not have those fields, switch the tag writing to 'ID3v2' in dMC Configuration.