Hey all. I've got a bit of an interesting question that I'm hoping some bright spark can help me with.
A couple of years ago, I ripped all my CDs to FLAC. After a long and protracted battle with Vista Media Center, I gave up on the idea of using the FLAC files but instead converted them to MP3 (192kbps VBR) for playing on VMC and kept the FLAC files as an archive. I had other MP3 files and have since added MP3s with no corresponding FLAC file.
I've built up a really nice hi-fi setup and am yearning to exploit the lossless files again. I'm thinking I will have another crack at using the FLAC files. Or if that proves ineffective, I may convert all the FLACs to WMA lossless. The problem I have is that I've been progressively fixing up all the album art and tags (genres, spelling errors etc) in the MP3 files and neglected the FLAC files. What I'd love is some way to export the tags from my MP3 collection and have my FLAC collection use the exported tags where available. This would save me countless hours and frustration trying to fix the FLAC files tags.
Probably the only guaranteed commmonality between the FLAC files and the corresponding MP3 files is the filename (not including the filename extension, of course!).
Anyone know if there's a way to do this in MP3tag?
Many thanks florian. Just one more question though. Is there a way of saving them tags to import at a later time.
I have a load of flacs that i need to convert to wavs (meaning i will lose tag info) platinum notes will then work on the wavs. I then need to convert back to flac and re import the tags.
It's possible to export tag information via File > Export...[Ctrl+E]. You can for example adjust the export configuration txt_taglist to your needs (i.e., that it contains all fields relevant for you). After exporting, you can import the tags at a later time using Converter > Text-file - Tag[Alt+4] with the same format string as has been used when exporting the information.
Please note that only textual information will be exported. If your FLAC files also have cover art, you need to export this separately with an Action Export cover to file.
I have to say that my experience is that method is dangerously unreliable - there need only be a " - " (EDIT: this forum display corrupted that string, which in truth is ) or newline in a property value for the transfered data to get seriously messed up. It might be possible to workaround this by recoding the config. If anyone has done so, it would be great for them to share their .mte solution.
I believe further there is also a small risk on post V2.44 versions of data loss due to Mp3tag no longer supporting the string "\\" in some tag frames, but I have not tested this. The workaround is simply to use V2.44.
If I remember correctly, someone can find some examples of good working csv export/import scripts of my own as answers to user's questions somewhere burried in the forum messages, which can handle e. g. export/import of multi line unsynced lyrics.
