Flac tags

deeznudts · 04-20-2008, 09:36 PM

I'm having trouble getting CF 1.47 to recognize album names and album art for FLAC files. I believe the tags are are ID3v1. Created in media monkey. I can get them to display no problem in WMP. I searched the forums but found nothing. The files show up under artist in unknown album. Which is kind of a pain because it's only a handful of artists and like 4000 songs. Which makes for really long albums. Any help is appreciated.

johnk · 04-21-2008, 12:31 AM

Please please have this working in CF2. The awful behavior with FLAC files is my biggest problem with Streetdeck, and I'll gladly pay for CF2 if it works nicely with them.

deeznudts · 04-26-2008, 09:44 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by johnk

Please please have this working in CF2. The awful behavior with FLAC files is my biggest problem with Streetdeck, and I'll gladly pay for CF2 if it works nicely with them.

No luck, still the same

cpsubrian · 04-27-2008, 12:56 AM

Hey..

Any CF rep input on this? I too am excited about cf2.0 but plan on heavily using flac to preserve audio quality.

thanks,

SKiTLz · 04-27-2008, 06:03 PM

I run Flac also. How bout an answer?

deeznudts · 04-27-2008, 07:45 PM

I think the real question is what type of tag should we be using to get all of our tag info to show up in centrafuse? Flac tags? ID3v2? If anyone has been able to do this successfully, what program do you use to tag your files? The files will play just fine in CF, the hard part is finding them without the proper tag info.

johnk · 04-27-2008, 11:09 PM

Are ID3 tags actually used in FLAC files? I thought FLACs just used a tag specific to the FLAC format.

Most of my FLAC files are just tagged by the flac.exe encoder at the time they were created. Some of them I have later touched up with Media Monkey.

I think Centrafuse should do whatever Winamp does.

deeznudts · 04-27-2008, 11:24 PM

According to the flac site at soundforge.net you can use ID3 tags although it is discouraged. They recomend the use of mp3tag for tagging flacs if you aren't tagging them directly with the encoder. I don't know how that program tags them. I too use media monkey but CF will only read the song title however they show up fine in Windows Media Player. Does the tag information show up for you after fixing in media monkey?

Maybe I will try mp3tag. Encoding the files with the tag info is not an option. Most of my music is live music downloaded legally (grateful dead, phish, and the like) I'm not going through my 1TB and re-encoding all of them.

deeznudts · 04-28-2008, 12:07 AM

Alright I've tagged a test file using the program mp3tag v2.41 as the flac site recommended with APE, ID3v1, ID3v2.3 ISO, ID3v2.3 UTF 16, and ID3v2.4 UTF 8 tags. And Hurrah!!! It read every one of them. Now it didn't diplay album art for any of them. But it's getting late, I'll play more tomorrow. Here's the link if you want to check the program out.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

johnk · 04-28-2008, 12:30 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by deeznudts

Does the tag information show up for you after fixing in media monkey?

I haven't installed Centrafuse yet. I wanted to wait until it got more stable first... but maybe I'll try installing it on a test PC.

deeznudts · 04-28-2008, 11:26 PM

Alright I've got my flacs tagged, album art to show up, and centrafuse to display everything correctly. This is what I did:

-Download mp3tag or any other tag software that can edit ape or ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4
-Tag your files in the tag software

To display album art in the files, you need to use windows media player. In order to enable WMP to play flac files you need a couple of programs.

-You need to make sure you have the proper codecs to play flac/oggs. I use oggcodecs_0.71.0946.
-Then you need to make sure you have a Tag extender program so WMP can read the tags. I use wmptagextWMPTagSupportExtender.1.455.
-Then add your albums to windows media player and drag and drop you cover art onto the album icon.

Then you should be good to go. It's a little bit of a pain but it works. I'm pretty sure you can edit the tags in WMP as well, but it really sucks. Get the tag editor.

deeznudts · 04-28-2008, 11:33 PM

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johnk · 04-28-2008, 11:33 PM

I did a test with 840 FLACs, and all the artists/albums/genres that I had set were read correctly by CF2 RC1.

deeznudts · 04-28-2008, 11:34 PM

<----no low bitrate here

deeznudts · 04-28-2008, 11:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by johnk

I did a test with 840 FLACs, and all the artists/albums/genres that I had set were read correctly by CF2 RC1.

Yeah i don't know why mine wouldn't work before. I had an older version of media monkey, maybe that was it. I use streetdeck right now, and that never gave me a problem. So who knows. At least I know it works, if i'm going to start to use CF as my primary FE.