Here's a trick that may be helpful to someone else. In the newest version of Mp3tag you can map field names to others. I'd always found Mp3tag to be awkward to use when trying to tag both FLAC and MP3 files. This is due to its use of internal field names that it maps to the actual names for different types of tags. I create a lot of Actions (actually 'Action Groups') to automate the tagging of files. The problem is that for FLAC files the field names are (almost) all used literally, while with MP3/ID3v2 they're mapped to something else. If you wanted to use the same Action Groups on both types of files you had to come up with some very long if..then..else constructs, keying off of the file type. Not any more.
A good example is the COMPILATION tag. In MP3 files you generally want to use the TCMP frame, which requires you to use the Mp3tag internal name ITUNESCOMPILATON. In FLAC files you want the field name COMPILATION. If you use COMPILATION in an action on an MP3 file you get a user defined TXXX frame with description COMPILATION instead of a TCMP frame. Conversely, using ITUNESCOMPILATION on a FLAC file gives you a literal field named ITUNESCOMPILATION. So what you can do is create your own tag mappings so that you can use the same field name for tagging both FLAC and MP3 files. In the screen shot below I couldn't quite capture the tag column. The first three map Vorbis Comments (in FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files) and are built-in to Mp3tag. The remainder are for ID3v2 tags and are the mappings that I've defined. What this does is it allows you to use COMPILATION and most other tags normally used with FLAC files on MP3 files. What it's doing for the ID3v2 tags, essentially, is putting the name through two levels of mapping - first the user-defined mapping, then Mp3tag's internal mapping. So you have: COMPILATION -> ITUNESCOMPILATION -> TCMP In practice I've found that it works extremely well. Any place you use COMPILATION, including the variable %compilation% in your Action Groups, it will work with both FLAC and MP3 files. You never have to use (or even see) the strangely named ITUNESCOMPILATION field again and never have to worry about which type of file you're working with. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 2009-12-10_154848.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8847| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51816 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
