Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

**Spoon** · 04-26-2020, 12:11 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Try uninstalling it, to rule it out.

**muka2000** · 04-26-2020, 12:29 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Same after uninstall

**Spoon** · 04-26-2020, 05:33 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Please upload to dropbox:

a) a flac file with the correct artist tags
b) a apple lossless file you have created from the flac file which has the artist tags missing

I will try the exact same conversion. Personal message me a link please to the files.

**Spoon** · 04-28-2020, 11:35 AM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

I have the file and it works as expected when converting that flac to alac.

If you can open dBpoweramp Control Centre >> Advanced and enable the music converter debug option at the end of the list.

Then convert that exact flac file to Apple Lossless. After conversion a debug log is created, paste here please.

**muka2000** · 04-29-2020, 10:18 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Splitting Command Line:"C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\CoreConverter.exe" -dbcmd="C:\Users\muka2\AppData\Local\Temp\dBTC037.t mp"
->-> [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
Decodes [clDecoder::Get]
BatchID [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\Apple Lossless.DLL'
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
BatchID [clEncoder_ALAC::Set]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
SendRawUnCompressed [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
NeedHQAudio [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [clDecoder::Open]
Opening file 'F:\tmp1\01. Bossa Antigua.flac' for read access: Opened
Init FLAC:
Reading Meta Data:
Contains picture block, size (bytes): 74897 type: 3
contained 7 tags:
GENRE: Jazz
ALBUM: Brazilian Nights
ARTIST: Kenny G
Year: 2015
TITLE: Bossa Antigua
Track: 1/14
Album Artist: Kenny G
->-> [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
<-<- [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
Encoder: FLAC reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Sample Count: 10,029,596
ID Tag: Vorbis Comments
Contains: Album Art, CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Uncompressed WFX (sent to db): Format Tag: 1 Channels: 2 Bits per Sample: 16 Samples Per Second: 44100 Bytes Per Second: 176400 Block Align: 4 CB Size: 0
Audio Length: 227428 mili-seconds 30565595 bytes 1411 kbps
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Creating Decode Buffers: Created
<-<- [clDecoder::Open]
SendOverReplayGainTags [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [clEncoder_ALAC::BeginConversion]
Converting to 'F:\tmp1\01. Bossa Antigua.m4a' encoder settings ''
<-<- [clEncoder_ALAC::BeginConversion]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
Encoding To: Apple Lossless
Encoder Cmd Line:
============= CONVERSION BEGIN =============
============= CONVERSION END =============
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::CloseDecoder]
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]
->-> [clEncoder_ALAC::EndConversion]
<-<- [clEncoder_ALAC::EndConversion]
File Size Check : 30433603 bytes Filename: F:\tmp1\01. Bossa Antigua.m4a
File Size Check (before ID Tags Written): 30433603 bytes Filename: F:\tmp1\01. Bossa Antigua.m4a
->-> [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
Decodes [clDecoder_M4A::Get]
IDTags [clDecoder_M4A::Set]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
->-> [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
->-> [aacstream::clDecoder_M4A::Close]
<-<- [aacstream::clDecoder_M4A::Close]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
Conversion completed in 2.2 seconds x104 realtime encoding
File Size Check (core converter exit): 30510859 bytes Filename: F:\tmp1\01. Bossa Antigua.m4a
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]

**Spoon** · 05-08-2020, 10:10 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Can you try with the DSP effect 'ID Tag Processing' and set it to delete the album art, then re-run with the debug log please.

**muka2000** · 05-10-2020, 08:47 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Splitting Command Line:"C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\CoreConverter.exe" -dbcmd="C:\Users\muka2\AppData\Local\Temp\dBTE7C4.t mp"
->-> [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
Decodes [clDecoder::Get]
BatchID [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\Apple Lossless.DLL'
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
BatchID [clEncoder_ALAC::Set]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
SendRawUnCompressed [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
IsLive [clDSP::Get]
SendOverReplayGainTags [clDSP::Get]
BatchID [clDSP::Set]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
NeedHQAudio [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [clDecoder::Open]
Opening file 'C:\Users\muka2\Music\tmp\01 Love´s Theme.flac' for read access: Opened
Init FLAC:
Reading Meta Data:
contained 6 tags:
Genre: Pop
TITLE: Love´s Theme
ARTIST: &*33865;&*40599;&*20736;
ALBUM: FRANCES YIP Discovery 2
Track: 01
Album Artist: &*33865;&*40599;&*20736;
Contains picture block, size (bytes): 949163 type: 3
->-> [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
<-<- [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
Encoder: FLAC reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Sample Count: 6,371,287
ID Tag: Vorbis Comments
Contains: Album Art, CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Uncompressed WFX (sent to db): Format Tag: 1 Channels: 2 Bits per Sample: 16 Samples Per Second: 44100 Bytes Per Second: 176400 Block Align: 4 CB Size: 0
Audio Length: 144473 mili-seconds 12964994 bytes 1411 kbps
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Creating Decode Buffers: Created
<-<- [clDecoder::Open]
SendOverReplayGainTags [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [clDSP::BeginConversion]
<-<- [clDSP::BeginConversion]
->-> [clEncoder_ALAC::BeginConversion]
Converting to 'C:\Users\muka2\Music\tmp\01 Love´s Theme.m4a' encoder settings ''
<-<- [clEncoder_ALAC::BeginConversion]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
Encoding To: Apple Lossless
Encoder Cmd Line:
DSP Effects:
ID Tag Processing: -delsingle0="[Album Artwork]" -case="0" -exportart="(none)" -importart="(none)" -maxart="(any)" -maxartkb="(any)"

============= CONVERSION BEGIN =============
============= CONVERSION END =============
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::CloseDecoder]
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]
->-> [clDSP::EndConversion]
<-<- [clDSP::EndConversion]
->-> [clEncoder_ALAC::EndConversion]
<-<- [clEncoder_ALAC::EndConversion]
File Size Check : 12177172 bytes Filename: C:\Users\muka2\Music\tmp\01 Love´s Theme.m4a
File Size Check (before ID Tags Written): 12177172 bytes Filename: C:\Users\muka2\Music\tmp\01 Love´s Theme.m4a
->-> [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
Decodes [clDecoder_M4A::Get]
IDTags [clDecoder_M4A::Set]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
->-> [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
->-> [aacstream::clDecoder_M4A::Close]
<-<- [aacstream::clDecoder_M4A::Close]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder_ALAC::Get]
->-> [clDSP::AfterConversion]
<-<- [clDSP::AfterConversion]
Conversion completed in 2.7 seconds x52 realtime encoding
File Size Check (core converter exit): 12179490 bytes Filename: C:\Users\muka2\Music\tmp\01 Love´s Theme.m4a
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]

**Spoon** · 05-11-2020, 12:41 AM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

I have run out of ideas on how to debug this, the tags look as though they are being written.

**Spoon** · 05-12-2020, 10:14 AM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Looks like someone else has the same issue:

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?45079-Tags-lost-after-converting-DSF-to-Apple-Lossless

Please as a test convert the FLAC file to m4a AAC (FDK), do the tags get written?

**cbank8** · 05-12-2020, 02:56 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Too bad. I am joining this thread from the other one. same problem here. I have done the following tests:
1. uninstall and re-install
2. try FLAC to Apple Lossless
3. add DSP, tags processing, remove artworks

none of these works. no luck :(

I use Windows 10. no security software except the one coming with Windows 10. Using R17 64bit. I haven't purchased the software yet. today is my first day to use it. if this problem is solved I will definitely pay for it.

**Spoon** · 05-12-2020, 03:50 PM

Re: Cannot tag album information into the Apple lossless file format

Tell me about your computer, Windows version, any security software? Please as a test convert the FLAC file to m4a AAC (FDK), do the tags get written?