Thanks for the suggestions of foobar, dbpoweramp, and mp3tag. I wasn't familiar wih any of those and the versions I found were for Windows. I do have a Windows machine but it's a little easier to reach the files if I use an application on the (Linux) Squeezebox server.
In the end I loaded each WAV file into Audacity, and 'export'ed the audio as flac. At that stage, I could have typed in the 'album' tags just the once, Audacity can save metadata and it can use the saved metadata again on the next file; I didn't do that, but my recommendation now, to anyone else, would be to do that, actually. What I had done was to export all the WAV tags using kid3's 'export album' feature. That produced a good-looking, highly structured, text file that even a spreadsheet could open and get each tag in the correct field; I was impressed. This is going to be easy, I thought, I'll convert the files to flac in Audacity, and then just use kid3's 'import album' feature to read the tags from its saved text file and insert them into the flac files. Life isn't straightforward, though; this turned out not to work. In the end, I had the untagged flac files, in the same directory as the tagged WAV files, and then just used kid3 to show the WAV tags, click on 'copy', select the equivalemt flac file, click on 'paste'. I just followed that sequence file by file. I've noted the utilities puddletag and eyed3, which I think are suggested in a linux context. Neither is on the machine running SBS, and I'll check those out to see if they'll be of help next time. Thanks very much for all the information, regards, Atlantic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104847 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
