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Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Hello,

Sorry for the noob question.

I'm switching from EAC to CUERipper, but I'd like to use FLAC v1.3.1.

I've put FLAC.exe into CUETools folder and set parameters like this:

-%M -P %P - -o %O -8 -V -T "artist=%artist%" -T "title=%title%" -T "album=%albumtitle%" -T "date=%year%" -T "tracknumber=%tracknr%" -T "genre=%genre%"

Extraction & conversion work, but the generated FLACs have no tags.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help!

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #1 –
You cannot tag via the external encoder parameters. CUETools/CUERipper use taglib-sharp internally for tagging FLAC.
Tagging is performed last after all files are written.
korth

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #2 –
To replace FLAC version - for every encode then! - isn't it better just to replace the libflac?

Can "libFLAC_dynamic.dll" in the plugins\x64 or plugins\win32 folder be replaced by a renamed libFLAC.dll from the official xiph - or does one have to use an older CUETools download?

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #5 –
Quote from: korth on
(Barough seems to be confusing flac.exe with libflac. Read c72578's posts about changing the dll.)

I wouldn't say that since you can also use flac.exe for encoding with CUETools/CUERipper. The official Xiph flac,exe isn't static linked so it depends on external dll to work. Could have wrote more in the post in question but that's in the past. ;)

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #6 –
The title of the issue was "Update libFLAC to 1.4.x". Recommending exe download links to update libflac seemed off-topic.
korth

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #7 –
Quote from: korth on
The title of the issue was "Update libFLAC to 1.4.x". Recommending exe download links to update libflac seemed off-topic.

Better to cover everything. ;)

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #8 –
Quote from: korth on
You cannot tag via the external encoder parameters. CUETools/CUERipper use taglib-sharp internally for tagging FLAC.
Tagging is performed last after all files are written.
Well, thank you for the confirmation. Indeed, I found later on the wiki:
Arguments for external encoder executable (Encoding parameters only. Please refer to the encoder's documentation for more info about usage parameters.).

Quote from: Porcus on
To replace FLAC version - for every encode then! - isn't it better just to replace the libflac?

Can "libFLAC_dynamic.dll" in the plugins\x64 or plugins\win32 folder be replaced by a renamed libFLAC.dll from the official xiph - or does one have to use an older CUETools download?
That's a good idea, I'll try if replacing with an older dll from CUETools v2.1.6 works.

Quote from: Porcus on
@SoulRipper wrote "1.3.1" and you may have been right in assuming it was a typo?
It wasn't a typo. For some reason, my old hardware player doesn't do well with FLAC versions above 1.3.1...

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #9 –
Quote from: SoulRipper on
For some reason, my old hardware player doesn't do well with FLAC versions above 1.3.1...
Weird. There were very few changes up to 1.3.2 (changelog at https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html);
But, there was an issue - on certain chipsets - with CUETools' libflacs versions 1.3.3 and 1.3.2 - see https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,120750.0.html and https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=117421.0 . So you may try the new CUETools build with 1.4 and see if the problem just goes away.
And if it doesn't: if you are in the mood for experimenting: take a file that might be troublesome and re-encode it with lower lpc order. For example, giving the command-line
flac -8f -l10 filename.flac
reduces the complexity from LPC order 12 (that -8 sets) to 10. I don't know if the LPC order has anything to do with your problems, but that is one of the very few changes from flac 1.3.1 to 1.3.2: a different algorithm for guessing what LPC order to apply.

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #10 –
Quote from: SoulRipper on
It wasn't a typo. For some reason, my old hardware player doesn't do well with FLAC versions above 1.3.1...
This would be of great interest to me. Could you please elaborate?
Music: sounds arranged such that they construct feelings.

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #11 –
And I didn't summon ktf here, assuming he got more than enough to do elsewhere ...

@SoulRipper, there is a FLAC "testbench" thread at https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=121478.0 . The testbench includes quite a lot of FLAC files to be tested for playback. You mind firing them at your player while listening to it?

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #12 –
Quote from: SoulRipper on
That's a good idea, I'll try if replacing with an older dll from CUETools v2.1.6 works.
CUETools 2.1.6 predates using "libFLAC_dynamic.dll" as a plugin.
I tried an old build from rarewares.org with minimal testing and it seems to work (at least in my tests).
Quote
libFLAC v.1.3.1
2014-11-28
libFLAC dll, ICL 14.0.4 compile - by John33
flac_dll-1.3.1-icl.zip win32
flac_dll-1.3.1-x64-icl.zip x64
korth

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #13 –
Quote from: korth on
You cannot tag via the external encoder parameters. CUETools/CUERipper use taglib-sharp internally for tagging FLAC.
Tagging is performed last after all files are written.

It would help be as well if there was an option to using a seperate executable and pass command line arguments as well.
 

Re: Flac.exe tags are not added to files

Reply #14 –
Quote from: dpr on
It would help be as well if there was an option to using a seperate executable and pass command line arguments as well.
A separate executable can be added in CUETools - Settings - Encoders - Insert
See attached example.