Keep Flac tags?

I like the the native flac support in CS6, but it's very annoying that you loose the tags when saving a flac file.
To keep my tags I open the flac in a tag editor, copy the tag, do my editing in audition and then paste the tag back.
Is there any way to keep the flac tags from being deleted when saving.

There's an open issue to investigate this problem with FLAC and OGG, both of which are written and read through libsndfile integration.

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Hi Arnis,
Thanks for the reply. I don't think I explained my problem very well.
I do know how to create a standard index, how to put markers in the material, and how to use different levels of references. Usually, after I create the index, I then create the TOC. I do it in that order so that the index is listed in the TOC. But for that to happen, I need to include the paragraph tag for the word "Index," which is the title of the index chapter (along with Chap Num, Appendix, and other tags I want in the TOC). The tag for that title is "IndexIX". This works fine in several of the books I manage, but in some cases, I can't seem to keep the IndexIX tag in the list of tags to include in the TOC. At some point, that tag disappears from the list of known tags in the current book. I have no idea why that happens - I haven't removed the index from the book file, so the tag should still be there.
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Hi Stefan,
plz have a look to following german sides:
Stefan Münz: XSLT
Informationen zur Extensible Markup Language
Einführung in XSL-Transformation (XSLT)
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</ns1:Sender>
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Marco,
the bug is published and visible in Metalink.
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Regards,
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I have a TV series that I ripped from my DVDs into iTunes.
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I did this a while ago with another TV series, but I remember that the movie files are automatically imported into the Movies section of iTunes.
I had to painfully go through all the episodes and seasons and re-group them all again and change them to the TV programmes section - took a good hour and half - do not want to do that again!
Any ideas would be greatful...

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All file formats are .m4v (mp4) which work fine with iTunes which does support tags and when I have imported to another PC, it still defaults to the Movie section, so the 'TV Show' tag doesn't seem to make a difference.
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Flack - a menu-driven BASH script to tag your FLAC files

No need to use GUI to edit FLAC tags
Project page
Screenshots
AUR
Last edited by dyscoria (2009-03-04 15:24:04)

Ok, I just tested the new version :
- It's harder to read than before
- If you select ie: remove tags and select the other option (o), you can't cancel your choice. You could always leave the field empty (nothing will be removed), but a simple option to leave would be better IMHO.
- To quit, you sometimes have to enter b, b, b, q. An exiting option always available could be a nice improvement (I'm aware of ctrl+c, that's not the point).
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Converting FLAC to itunes

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I've purchased a Grateful Dead album, one of Dick's Picks, and downloaded them as FLAC files. I've converted the FLAC files to AIFF files using a program called XACT. Now I want to import these AIFF files into itunes and burn the tunes onto a CD.
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actually there's a shell script that will convert FLAC directly to MP3 using LAME. It will preserve the FLAC metadata and put them in the MP3 tags if there is metadata.
It does depend on having certain libraries installed, so it can be kind of advanced. But it works well once you get it working.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040323004759816
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You definitely need LAME installed. once you get it working and in your path, you just cd to the directory of the flac files and then type:
flacmp3 *.flac
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#!/bin/sh
# flacmp3 - convert a flac file and its tag data to mp3/id3 format
# Thisscript takes in FLAC files and spits out MP3 files. If youÕve assigned
# metadata to a FLAC file (usingvctool, for example), it carries that information over to the MP3:
# % flacmp3 *.flac
# ThatÕs all it takes to do the job.
# other settings for the lame line:
#      lame -h -m s -b 192 \
# this also has the lame command deliberately put on one line
if [ "$1" ]
then
for file
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fi

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here comes another one of those questions looking at which codec to use to store music.....i also have tag questions.....
i'm about to (re-)rip my cd collection and looking at some info re codecs and id3 tags
now.....i believe i understand the benefits of alac (lower file sizes, keeping id3 tags, lossless compression) v wav(no compression)
however (and for some out there) if we just entertain the fact that wav may have some minute benefit for me depending on my questions and answers given.....and yes i know wav and alac will sound the same to the human ear - i accept that as a given of lossless compression ......
points i'd like to outline:
i am looking to rip my cds, firstly and mostly, for an archiving purpose!! purpose numero uno!!
i could well want to re-create cds with these archived records in the future
size of files is of no concern to me at all
i'm using a mac nowadays
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are these tags that important?
where do they come into play in ripping and later converting music?
are these uses just bells and whistles that have no benefit to my needs?
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if i then ensure these song files are kept under the album's folder, have i just done what tags do? surely not. that is all i have needed in the past.
this is where i feel i may be really missing what id tags (can) do
are tags more than just managing song files and where they belong and where they have come from?
is it just a convenience of not personally managing your song files (as per previous paragraph)?
(in the past i had ripped cds to mp3 codec. i think i used "cd rip" or something like that on my pc.
my mp3 files were individually named and sorted and kept under album folders under artist name folders.
apart form the very odd occasion all track and album info i needed was found on a database that was attached to the ripping software.
i never had a problem managing/maintaining these files and folders.)
i welcome some enlightenment on some of my questions above and other info that may be relevant
and yes, i understand that music will sound the same as a wav file or alac file - but humour me re using wav and tell me why i need id3 tags
i guess the crux of it is:
why do i need id3 tags?
does my managing of my song file in the album folder do what tags do?
what problems/shortcomings/headaches may i encounter by not having those tags if i use wav as opposed to alac?
what do i not know about these little buggers?
what codec is best for my purpose of archiving and re creating of cds (for playing in cd players)
thanks in advance for your input and any clarity that i may experience through this
peter t
excuse my long windedness (i have spent some time editing this entry)

Crows2012 wrote:
as mentioned earlier if i just have songs (wav) in album folders, when i import these albums into itunes, do you know if these will come up under AN album with their file names purely using my filename setup (but with no artwork)?
Yes, iTunes will read the filename, such as "Track 1" or something else and display it. But nothing else. No Album or Artist.
so the tracks will remain grouped as an album based on their initial folder and the albums and tracks as per file name?
Crows2012 wrote:
also, does aiff have limitations (apart from the full size of the file)?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. For all practical purposes AIFF and WAV are exactly the same thing. They're just file containers.
i thought that i had read somewhere that aiff tags could run into some issues with its tags - ie may not always be transferred 100% accurately with certain players (or hardware maybe)
Crows2012 wrote:
and how do these codecs work re-creating an album for the purposes of playing in a cd player? - this is a crucial question for the purpose of my archiving/backup of CDs THEMSELVES
That's actually going to depend on what burning software you use. Once you rip the tracks to whatever file container you choose (WAV/AIFF/ALAC) you'll never really exactly re-create the album. But for archiving purposes all three file containers will do what you want, which is to create a lossless archive. AIFF has the advantage of supporting embedded ID3, which ALAC has the additional advantage of the files also being about half the size of AIFF/WAV files.
i was thinking that maybe wav was able to recreate an album (in effect duplicate one) if my cd was lost or damaged in the future. i was thinking this IF when ripping to wav everything is unchanged (unless there is other data on the original cd). and maybe only possible with wav. the purpose for this would be to play recreated cds on my cd player
any idea on this one?
(i havent looked too thoroughly on this angle but i'll keep googling on this one)
much appreciate all info thus far
peter t

ALU Not tagging files. I found a workaround!

Hello all,
Just wanting to post this for future reference.
I bought a 3rd party Apple Loops pack and when installing it I realized that they were not tagged. I spent an entire evening tagging more that 1000 loops, hitting the save button every once in a while.
At the end of the day I checked the tagging and it was still not there....
I hated myself for a while and then I searched for some answers here.
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AT LAST!!!
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Cheers!

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I added my own tags into tagList in HTMLUtilities class which is in com.hexidec.ekit.component. Because it is initialized three times when i run the program.
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Hello all,
I usually rip my CDs to Apple Lossless, name it the way I want, include Album Artwork, then switch rip preference to MP3 (224kbps), highlight the lossless files and choose "Convert Selection to MP3" in the Advanced menu. I do this to save the time of having to rip things twice.
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The reason this came up is I rip to one drive, but keep the MP3s on another drive.
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Thanks!
John V
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There have been a lot of recent posts about tags not being updated properly in iTunes, and I am starting to think that it's a bug.
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