Atlantic wrote: > 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
if you have organized data for each WAV track in a spreadsheet format, it is easy to use mp3tag to import this data into tags in the FLAC files in a batch approach. mp3tag is a windows program. edit: haven't used it, but i'm told that puddletag is a linux tagger that runs in linux and is very similar to mp3tag. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win8(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104847 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
