# Will There Ever Be .FLAC Support?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/will-there-ever-be-flac-support/15852
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 26, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/will-there-ever-be-flac-support/15852 "2014-06-26T21:50:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@McKealty](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/McKealty)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/will-there-ever-be-flac-support/15852/1 "2014-06-26T21:50:31Z")
Hi there!
I've been using your program for a long time and love it, but I really think it could use flac support.
If this has already been discussed I apologize, I couldn't find it.
Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/will-there-ever-be-flac-support/15852/2 "2014-06-27T02:08:44Z")
> [@McKealty](#):
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> I've been using your program for a long time and love it, but I really think it could use flac support.
Do you mean something special with "FLAC-Support"?
As long as I know MP3Tag it can deal with FLAC.
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### Author:  [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/will-there-ever-be-flac-support/15852/3 "2014-06-28T20:44:33Z")
Huh???? Almost all my use of mp3tag is with FLAC files.
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### Author:  [@Nature](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nature)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/will-there-ever-be-flac-support/15852/4 "2014-06-29T17:36:21Z")
The same here. I started using FLAC almost exclusively for everything.
The only time I use MP3 is when I export (and convert on the fly) my library files to my portable MP3 player, using MusicBee (another wonderful piece of software!).
We can use FLAC/Vorbis tags without any limitation using Mp3Tag.
The only sad thing is that sometimes we have to do some mappings (manually) for things to work properly.
## I use a few mappings that could be useful to others: Tag Source Target
VorbisComment DATE Year
VorbisComment ORGANIZATION Publisher
VorbisComment TRACKNUMBER Track
VorbisComment SOURCE MEDIUM MediaType (source for the digital files: CD, FLAC, MP3, etc)
VorbisComment ORIGIN WEBSITE WWWAudioSource (Web site: MusicBrainz, Lat.fm, Discogs, etc)
VorbisComment INITIAL KEY InitialKey (only for classical Music)
You can check these two links with the real mappings Mp3Tag and MusicBee are using:
Mp3Tag: [https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping)
MusicBee: [http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Tagging](http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Tagging)
That will help you decide what to do. 😉
As for standards:
Vorbis/FLAC:
[https://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment](https://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment)
ID3v2 (used by Mp3, but also as base for others):
[http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0](http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0)