Windows FLAC player/tagger?
Reply #6 – 2003-10-11 19:45:48
Spoon's dBPoweramp adds shell extensions that allow you to view almost any audio format's tags with a simple mouseover, as well as right click properties. I'm sure there are others that do this? While on the subject, why not setup EAC to directly encode to FLAC and save a step? I'm sure the results are just the same with the added bonus of tagged FLAC files as well. Thanks! I'll look into dBPoweramp. I'm not looking for details on mouseover, I'm usually manipulating large amounts of files, so I like to be able to add Artist, Album etc to Windows detailed view in explorer and have them show up visually for sorting and things. I was able to do this with OGG using a program that I think was called Vorbis Extensions, and either it doesn't work for FLAC or my Explorer is messed up. Regarding EAC -> FLAC direct, it's just a perference/workflow thing for me. I'm currently going through my entire CD collection in large batches to turn them to FLAC. It works fastest and best for me in the process I've designed. I sit at the computer working and just swap CD's in and rip them all to one directory with EAC and don't have to wait for them to compress. When I have roughly 500 files or come close to filling up my local hard drive, I dump all WAVs into FLAC front-end and compress them overnight while I don't need to use my machine. Then add replay gain info and move the files to their final resting place on my server. Having EAC do the FLAC encoding will undoubtedly produce the same results, but I won't go to that until I'm doing one or two CD's at a time after I've completed my collection.
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