![]() ![]() I speak of own experience when tagging of multiple files resulted in entirely wrong and bad tags that led to almost unretrievable originals as these files were listed with a (random) wrong name in my library. Picard also has a tool to auto-recognize a not tagged song to look it up in the Musicbrainz library and create appropriate metatags.īefore playing around with tags it is strongly recommended to backup your original files in case something goes wrong. Musicbrainz Picard that offer the creation of metatags from filenames (in case they are appropriate). Therefore I would rather recommend one of the graphical solutions like Ex Falso or Some tools like metaflac from the flac package can import metatags from file but these files need to meet specific criteria for appropriate tag recognition involving conversion of your XML file. However if - as you say - your files are not tagged there is not an easy way to achieve correct metatags. By using the option: flac -keep-foreign-metadata ~/Music/*.wavĮven non-flac metadata will be preserved in your resulting *.flac file. Would convert all WAV files from the Music directory in your HOME to flac. To simply convert files from Windows WAV to FLAC on the commandline the official tool flac would be the obvious choice. Is there any audio fingerprinting software out there that could find the metadata after the WAV > FLAC conversion? Should I try and reference the iTunes XML file or is that not necessary? Manual method (file-by-file update) This method works best for updating data on individual tracks or a couple of albums. All these methods should work in iTunes 10+. What's the most reliable/efficient way to convert all my WAV files across the hard drives to FLAC from the command line while retaining/adding metadata to the new FLAC files? There are just too many files to go through one album at a time. Tag files using Picard (see How to Tag Files With Picard) Update iTunes library (see below) Other troubleshooting/tidy up steps may be needed (see below) Updating Library in iTunes. I've been using Ubuntu exclusively for almost a year now, and I want to convert my music library, which is currently spread out over 3 hard drives, to FLAC files w/ metadata, and move away from iTunes. ![]() info in an XML file, so I have a reference, and the library is fine, works great in iTunes/Windows). There are more than 50 alternatives to MusicBrainz Picard for a variety. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was' and is a very popular Mp3 Tag Editor in the audio & music category. (iTunes software stores the artist/song/etc. MusicBrainz Picard is described as 'Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. So now I have over 1 TB of music ripped in iTunes, and none of my files have metadata attached. When I started out 5 or 6 years ago ripping my music to my PCs I had a fairly basic understanding of audio formats, and I somewhat arbitrarily chose to rip all my CDs into the WAV format. I have a large music library that is currently managed by iTunes in Windows. ![]()
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