Dan - I've sent you the three files produced below by email (too big for the forum).
Here’s the steps used to produce them. 1. Started with FLAC.flac with Vorbis comments (and Replay Gain information from Foobar2000). 2. Removed Replay Gain information from FLAC file using Foobar2000. 3. Converted to MP3 using LAME command line encoder within Foobar2000. 4. Removed all TXXX tags using MP3 Tag Studio (Foorbar2000 converted various Vorbis comments to these - like ENSEMBLE, PERFORMER, etc.). 5. Saved two identical copies - ID3v2.mp3 and APE.mp3. 6. Output from Tag.exe (http://www.neilpopham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tag.html). FLAC.flac: Format: FLAC Details: 44100 Hz Stereo, 349 kbps, playtime 00:15 Tag: FLAC Title: St. John Passion Artist: John Eliot Gardiner Album: St. John Passion Year: 1986 Track: 8 Genre: Classical Comment: EAC (secure mode) + FLAC v1.1.1 -8 PART=Part I. Simon Petrus Aber Folgete Jesu Nach PARTNUMBER=8 DISCNUMBER=1 SOURCEMEDIA=CD-R COMPOSER=Johann Sebastian Bach OPUS=BVW 245 CONDUCTOR=John Eliot Gardiner ENSEMBLE=English Baroque Soloists ENSEMBLE=Monteverdi Choir LABEL=Archiv Produktion PERFORMER=Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)) PERFORMER=Stephen Varcoe (bass-baritone) PERFORMER=Nancy Argenta (soprano) PERFORMER=Ruth Holton (soprano) PERFORMER=Michael Chance (counter-tenor) PERFORMER=Neill Archer (tenor) PERFORMER=Rufus Müller (tenor) PERFORMER=Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) ID3v2.mp3 and APE.mp3: Format: MPEG 1 Layer 3, Joint Stereo Details: 44100 Hz Stereo, 168 kbps, playtime 00:15 Tags: ID3v1, ID3v2 Title: St. John Passion Artist: John Eliot Gardiner Album: St. John Passion Year: 1986 Track: 8 Genre: Classical Comment: EAC (secure mode) + FLAC v1.1.1 -8 Composer=Johann Sebastian Bach Conductor=John Eliot Gardiner 7. Set "Foobar2000 > Preferences > Playback > Input > Standard Inputs > MP3 tag writing > Tag type to write" to "ID3v2 and ID3v1". 8. Load ID3v2.mp3 and Replay Gain as album. 9. Tag.exe output for ID3v2.mp3: Format: MPEG 1 Layer 3, Joint Stereo Details: 44100 Hz Stereo, 168 kbps, playtime 00:15 Tags: ID3v1, ID3v2 Title: St. John Passion Artist: John Eliot Gardiner Album: St. John Passion Year: 1986 Track: 8 Genre: Classical Comment: EAC (secure mode) + FLAC v1.1.1 -8 Composer=Johann Sebastian Bach Conductor=John Eliot Gardiner replaygain_track_gain=+16.87 dB replaygain_track_peak=0.113414 replaygain_album_gain=+16.87 dB replaygain_album_peak=0.113414 10. Set "Foobar2000 > Preferences > Playback > Input > Standard Inputs > MP3 tag writing > Tag type to write" to "APEv2 and ID3v1". 11. Load APE.mp3 and Replay Gain as album. 12. Tag.exe output for APE.mp3: Format: MPEG 1 Layer 3, Joint Stereo Details: 44100 Hz Stereo, 168 kbps, playtime 00:15 Tags: ID3v1, APE v2.0 Title: St. John Passion Artist: John Eliot Gardiner Album: St. John Passion Year: 1986 Track: 8 Genre: Classical Comment: EAC (secure mode) + FLAC v1.1.1 -8 Composer=Johann Sebastian Bach Conductor=John Eliot Gardiner replaygain_track_gain=+16.87 dB replaygain_track_peak=0.113414 replaygain_album_gain=+16.87 dB replaygain_album_peak=0.113414 It looks (to me) like the ID3v2.mp3 has Replay Gain information stored in TXXX tags. -- NigelMSB _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
