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Help on creating wav and flac files with tags

Hi I plan to mass encode my CDs with EAC and FLAC to prepare for my new baby Squeezebox2.

However, I am at a lost as to how to automagically make the FLAC files with tag information.

My EAC can read a CD CDDB info correctly. But the resulting WAV file does not have any tag info that I know of. As a matter of fact, is there such thing as tag for .WAV files? How does the FLAC file automatically generate Tag info so I donbt have to type each file manually?

Help on creating wav and flac files with tags

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Hi I plan to mass encode my CDs with EAC and FLAC to prepare for my new baby Squeezebox2.

However, I am at a lost as to how to automagically make the FLAC files with tag information.

My EAC can read a CD CDDB info correctly. But the resulting WAV file does not have any tag info that I know of. As a matter of fact, is there such thing as tag for .WAV files? How does the FLAC file automatically generate Tag info so I donbt have to type each file manually?
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Use this commandline in EAC with FLAC set up as user defined encoder and ending set to .flac:
-V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T "comment=EAC secure rip" %s
Then click on the "MP3" ripping button instead the "WAV" ripping button. For more info on setting up EAC, see also www.high-quality.ch.vu
Proverb for Paranoids: "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
-T. Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)

Help on creating wav and flac files with tags

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WAV doesn't do tags. Use EAC to rip directly from CD tracks to FLAC. Failing that, see this post of mine on autodetecting the tag info from the filename using the FLAC Frontend.
FLAC – all your bit are belong to you

Help on creating wav and flac files with tags

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Please wait for the next release of REACT. It will do what most people around here wants with EAC without hardly any manual configuration.  E.g, for FLAC it is preconfigured to either:

1) With one button press, rip and encode to a FLAC image, run WaveGain and add both album and track replaygain vorbis tags, embed cuesheet including CDText info, and all other standard vorbis comment tags. Finally it will automatically close EAC's "Extract Audio Data" dialog box, and embed the written EAC log file as a vorbis tag.

2) With one button press, rip and encode to FLAC track files and add standard vorbis comment tags. On last track, it runs WaveGain and adds both album and track replaygain vorbis tags to all files. Finally it will automatically close EAC's "Extract Audio Data" dialog box, and move the written EAC log file to the target album tracks directory.

Similar configurations for WAVPACK, APE, LAME and OGG.  For the lossy encoders (lame and ogg), it applies the album gain using --scale, because hardware players doesn't support replaygaining. For lame, both APEv2 and id3v1 tags are written, and for wavpack and monkey's - only APEv2 tags.