Alas, these are not albums, but lots of 12" records with 2-4 tracks on, lots of them are DJ Promos where there is no matching data on Discogs, and so I often have to take my own photos. Tedious, hence wanting to know now while I am still relatively early on in process.
Thanks for all your help so far.
Something I did not add - the reason I am recording to WAV/AIFF is also because I need to edit EVERY file (trim either end, apply fades etc), so I have always been under impression that this should be done in WAV/AIFF rather than, say, opening a recording made in a lossy format. Does this change the advice in any way?
Current process:
Since FLAC is not lossy, you shouldnât have any issues. The only change you are making here is moving from wav to FLAC as your default format at step 1. And at step 5. you will notice the files take less space on your archiving drive.
You wonât be able to view the FLAC files in the Music app, so you will need to export the aac versions from Audacity or some other converter first.
So really, moving to FLAC seems like a sensible move to solve the tagging issues (and the files are editable in wave editor where ALAC is not ... easily). The only issue then is how I can bulk export/convert the FLAC files to AAC (I still want to have smaller files in AAC for Music Library ... not that Apple Music supports FLAC anyway) and for that process to retain the ID3 tags and artwork. Is this a job for a Macro in Audacity to Export AAC? Or something else?
I realise this is now off-topic, not MP3Tag-specific, but I really would like to get ths process nailed end-to-end before I go any further.
Once again, thanks for your guidance.
It's most likely possible in Audacity and I'd recommend XLD for that.
And this works really well, too. I can set it to run any time a file is added to the FLAC folder. Sweeeet.
Thanks for the XLD recommendation, too.