I know this has been covered before, but here goes! [Screen Shot 2022-01-28 at 06.20.19] I am using Ondesoft Spotify Converter to save FLAC tracks from The Who Live at Leads album. I have simply dragged the first track into both Tag and Mp3Tag; nothing has been changed yet. As you see in the scre…

The problem with FLAC on macOS is that it's not really well supported by the system. Apple wants you to use their own lossless codec ALAC based on MP4 instead. Finder only shows album covers for FLAC files that also have an ID3v2 tag, which is not a valid tag format for FLAC files (read: "invalid")…

Not sure without inspecting the file itself, but maybe the file in question has an ID3v2 tag? You can check by making the "Tag" column in Mp3tag just a little wider. Some apps write ID3v2 to FLAC, but it's not recommended as FLAC has it's own tagging format, i.e., Vorbis Comments.

Thanks. The Tag field shows "FLAC (FLAC ID3v2 ID3v1)". I do not think there is much active development going on in the other Tag app I reference; its developer's FLAC player, Decibel, also displays the track (and disc) count, as well as the artwork from Ondesoft Spotify Converter (another ancient a…

[image] pws442: I need to gain more knowledge on the tag differences. To quote Rodney King: "Can't we all just get along?" Where would the fun be in that? :slight_smile:

Here is a thread on how to remove the (invalid) ID3 tags from flac files: [image] Remove FLAC ID3v2 Support MP3TAG reports that most of my flac files have only FLAC (FLAC) tags (Vorbis Comments). For some of my flac files MP3TAG reports that they have FLAC (FLAC ID3v2) ta…

Yes, BUT these tags seem to be recognized by Apple Music, Decibel, and I will see about Plex and BluOS today some time.

[image] pws442: BUT these tags seem to be recognized by Apple Music I don't think that Apple Music supports FLAC. Can you please re-check if you can import and play FLAC in Music.app?

I believe I made misstatements. Some, but not all, Ondesoft Spotify Converter's FLAC Downloads now render in Finder w/Artwork and have Track/Count in Tag and Decibel. Obviously not in Apple Music, that is where XLD comes in. If I simply drag the .flac file to XLD, to convert to .m4a format, the con…

I really have apprehension about any of the online file “converters” out there that grab from the streaming services. Many of these have already been identified as sources that have issues with tagging software.

Appreciate your concern. I have been using Ondesoft and XLD converters w/o issues for some years now. Nothing AT ALL is perfect. These suit my wishes. :no_mouth:

[image] MotleyG: I really have apprehension about any of the online file “converters” out there that grab from the streaming services. Many of these have already been identified as sources that have issues with tagging software. And of course in many countries, grabbing files from streaming s…

Total Track Count Tag and Artwork not displayed for FLAC

Mac

ohrenkino January 28, 2022, 2:49pm 5

Here is a thread on how to remove the (invalid) ID3 tags from flac files: