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Topic: Keeping tags in sync between collection and archive (Read 2062 times) previous topic - next topic
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Keeping tags in sync between collection and archive

Like many others here, I keep a lossless archive of the CDs I rip but use more convenient lossy codecs for normal use. However, using the lossless files I corrected/added quite a bit of information in the tags, and I don't want to lose that if I decide to either re-encode the library with a different lossy codec, or if I switch to using the lossless files directly because bigger HDs allow me to always keep them at hand.

So what I'm looking for is a way to transfer the tags from the lossy set of files to the lossless set. I've search a bit for a way to achieve this and found out that foobar2000 can copy tags for sets of files, but it doesn't automatically identify which files belong together and always uses the playlist order instead.

The transfer of tags is always going to be one direction only (lossy collection -> lossless archive) so no powerful synching mechanism is neccessary, just a way to determine with very high probability that a certain lossless file corresponds to a given lossy file, and to copy all metadata over. Does a tool exist which can help with that? Given the ammount of metadata (existing tags, sample-exact length, filename, other files in the same directory) available to such a tool identifying corresponding files should be possible.