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Copy tags from AAC to FLAC?

I've searched the forums and found many near-solutions to this, but nothing that quite seems to work.

I've used EAC to rip to multiple FLAC + Cuesheet, and then I use dbPowerAmp Music Converter to convert via iTunes to AAC for my iPod.  Inevitably, I have spotted numerous tag problems in iTunes and have corrected them.  Now I want to copy those corrections back to the FLAC files.

The filenames are not the same between the two versions - partly because iTunes renames the files and partly because the FLACS have underscores instead of spaces.  Each FLAC disc is in its own folder, so it should be easy to match up disc by disc visually.  It is important I do not rename the FLAC files as then they won't match the cuesheet files.

What tool can I use to say "take all the tags of the AAC files selected and put them into the FLAC files I specify".  Ideally I want it to just go in filename order (track number is first in both cases) or to tie up the files by the track number tag.

I've tried Tagger and TGF and neither seem to do this.  I also tried TGF's export function but couldn't get it to work and this would be cumbersome anyway.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
Allister.

Copy tags from AAC to FLAC?

Reply #1 –
The tagger Mp3tag has a feature to copy tags from a source to a destination.

Hope this helps, tec

Copy tags from AAC to FLAC?

Reply #2 –
I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but fb2k has a "copy tags"-function which should do exactly what you want.

Generally, as long as you don't use mp3gain with tag-writing enabled, fb2k should be your do-it-all when it comes to all your tagging, encoding and transcoding needs... even if you don't use it as a player. What it can do is the following:

- Copy tags or transcode while preserving tags FROM any supported format TO any supported format (as long as the target-format supports the tag-fields of the source-format)
- Masstagging scripts which allow you to easily create "scripts" to for example do 20 tag-operations (including stuff like guessing from filename) on 10.000 files with just a few mouseclicks.
- Massrenaming and massmoving of files according to certain schemes which you can specify as you like(again, this can be done to thousands of files with a few mouseclicks)
- other stuff useful for managing files which i probably forgot

So, even if you dont like it as a player, then you may still want to consider it for your encoding and tagging needs.

- Lyx
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.
 

Copy tags from AAC to FLAC?

Reply #3 –
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I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but fb2k has a "copy tags"-function which should do exactly what you want.

  Tagger, TGF now uninstalled.  FB2K ensconced on Launchbar.

I've already gone through all 3255 songs and updated them.  It does indeed make the task very easy.

Thanks for the tip.

Tec, I did have a look at MP3tag, but FB2K just looked so much better.  Thanks for the tip anyway.