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Lossless Audio Compression => Lossless / Other Codecs => Topic started by: lllusion on 2006-06-25 08:24:16

Title: Monkey removing tags
Post by: lllusion on 2006-06-25 08:24:16
Monkey is removing all tags.
This occurs with compression from .wav to .ape or .mp3. It also occurs with conversion from .ape to .mp3.

How can I get monkey to retain all the tags?
Title: Monkey removing tags
Post by: Synthetic Soul on 2006-06-25 08:54:29
Have you tagged your WAVE files with APEv2?  This is not usual practise, and it's not surprising that an application would just ignore them.

I expect that foobar 0.83 would let you do what you want, but I doubt 0.9 will, as it adheres to standards more strictly.
Title: Monkey removing tags
Post by: lllusion on 2006-06-25 09:22:04
Have you tagged your WAVE files with APEv2?  This is not usual practise, and it's not surprising that an application would just ignore them.

I expect that foobar 0.83 would let you do what you want, but I doubt 0.9 will, as it adheres to standards more strictly.

The tags on the .WAVs were created by EAC&LAME. However, the problem is definately with Monkey since any combination of compression or conversion using Monkey strips the tags--any version of tag, and all information. My solution for getting the tags back is to use foobar--v0.92 works just fine. But I don't want to have to copy tag info back to the .APEs after their creation.
Title: Monkey removing tags
Post by: krmathis on 2006-06-25 09:47:38
The tags on the .WAVs were created by EAC&LAME.

I did not know you could use LAME to tag Wave files. 
Title: Monkey removing tags
Post by: lllusion on 2006-06-25 11:13:38
The tags on the .WAVs were created by EAC&LAME.

I did not know you could use LAME to tag Wave files. 

Uh, er... (backstep) tags on .mp3s.
... Anyway, problem still exists: tags on .APEs get stripped when converting to .MP3 using Monkey.
Title: Monkey removing tags
Post by: Synthetic Soul on 2006-06-25 19:27:07
You are confused.  At least we got there in the end.

Monkey's Audio GUI is a simple converter.  To retain tags when transcoding use foobar or dbPowerAmp.