So I have 3 FLAC files that I can't convert to MP3 (using Flacsquisher) because it says the file types are not supported. I did some googling and found out I need to remove the ID3v2 tags, apparently. And to do that, I was told I needed to use MP3Tag. So I just downloaded it, and I don't have a clue how to use it. It won't even let me load just regular files--it only deals in directories, whatever that means.
So how do I use this thing to remove some simple ID3v2 tags?? Help!
Drag&drop the files into MP3tag.
Select them in MP3tag.
Right-click and select "Cut tag".
Then right-click again and select "Paste tag".
Check whether the ID3 tags have gone.
Just as a point of info... I use FlacSquisher all the time (like almost daily), and it has NO problem handling FLAC files with ID3V2 tags. In fact, almost all the FLAC files I squish are tagged. The tags come out the other end no problemo.
Yeah, I realized after posting this that I misunderstood the error message I got. Apparently these 3 FLAC files have an unsupported number of samples? I don't even know what that means. I doubt that's something MP3Tag can fix, so I posted my problem at FlacSquish discussion board at Source Fourge.
A good idea would be to post the exact error message.
I've come across a fair share of flac decoding errors over the years. Unsupported or unknown sample count can mean that whichever software encoded the files did so incorrectly by either not saving the sample count or storing a different number of samples than specified, which is unsupported by the flac codec.
However if you don't care about that and want to make these files usable, you might have luck with this ffmpeg command.
ffmpeg -i "input.flac" -c:v copy -c:a flac "output.flac"
Just replace input.flac and output.flac with one of the 3 file names and an output name of your choosing. Do note that this does not "repair" the files, it simply means that ffmpeg will ignore the error and try to copy the audio part of the file to a new flac file. The tags are also lost in the process, but you can easily copy them over via mp3tag after the fact.
You might want to check the spectrograms of the resulting files for obvious errors and completeness afterwards.
For that you can use spek.