I've been ripping to FLAC for nearly 5 years now, and I am sure some of the earlier compression and tagging is not the best. I have about 400GB worth of FLAC files, and I would like to do the following (in one step, or as few as possible steps). I can either do this in-place or have it done on a separate target drive. I prefer the second option because it gives me a backup, and I do have space available. Platform wise Mac/Win/Linux are all fine.
1) Re-encode to the latest version of flac with a reasonably high compression. 2) Keep all the Vorbis Tags 3) Remove ID3 tags if present. (bonus if there is info in the ID3 tag which is absent in the Vorbis Tag, then copy it over before deleting the ID3 one - If all this is complicated, is there a way simply to scan the entire FLAC library and locate all the files that have ID3 tags?) 4) Scan and tag with MusicIP. (Fortunately ReplayGain has already been done, so I don't have to repeat that step) 5) This one is really not important but would be fun - i.e. add song key information (e.g. for harmonic mixing). 6) Keep the original timestamp. -- Nikhil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nikhil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66867 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
