[Flac-dev] flac metadata

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 7 11:24:02 PST 2003


--- "Brent A. Musat" <brentmusat at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So I've just ripped my entire 600 CD collection to flac format
> (200gigs worth) with vorbis comments in the flac metadata.  But my
> gripe is that neither Winamp nor XMMS's flac plug-ins seem to have
> the ability to read the vorbis comment from the metadata.  Are there
> any flac players for windoze or linux that can access the metadata?  
> Or do i have to add redundant ID3 tags to all my flac files?   If the
> latter is my only option, are there any tools or scripts out there to
> read the flac metadata comments and add measly ID3 tags?

both the plugins read vorbis comments; they should actually form
a union of id3 and vorbis comments, preferring vorbis comments,
then id3v2, then id3v1, on the intersection.

Josh


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