Eric, I believe that ID3 tags are not legal for FLAC, but they are accommodated. ID3 tags are supposed to be for MP3 only. The Linux "file" utility is probably finding ID3 tags and making a reasonable assumption that this is an MP3.
I don't tag my FLAC files, so I do not know what to suggest. Perhaps there are some clues in the FLAC documentation on what are proper tag formats. All I can remember is that MP3/ID3 tags are not really legal. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Dec 4, 2008, at 13:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has recently come to my attention that the linux "file" utility reports some (but not all) of my flac files as having a mime type of "audio/mpeg". Obviously this is incorrect, but why is it reported as such? This led me to wonder if it was the tags..? Since in theory both flac files are the same..? No go... This is strange yes? I can write a script to convert them all, transfer all the tags, etc, but, I'm still curious as to why this is happening. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
