[Flac] flac and metadata

[Charles Steinkuehler]

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Josh Coalson wrote:
> --- Charles Steinkuehler <cstein at newtek.com> wrote:
>> The recent thread on archiving CDs with flac has prompted me to ask a
>> few questions about flac and metadata:
>> 
>> 1.1) It appears that metaflac only imports limited information from a
>> cuefile.  Text data (ie: Title, Artist) and any comments are removed
>> from the file.  I can kind of see eating the comments, but why are
>> the perfectly valid text fields not getting saved?
> 
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__no_cuesheet_tags

<doh>  Sorry for the noise.

>> 2) Is there any way to store CD-TEXT data in the flac file along with
>> the cue sheet?
> 
> what's in the cuesheet is almost never the actual CD-TEXT, it's
> a graft of CDDB tags into the cuesheet.
> 
> if you mean the actual subcode data for CD-TEXT, you could stuff
> it in an APPLICATION block if you really wanted to.

That's kind of what I figured...I'll just probably just hang on to the
toc files for now, rather than trying to coerce them into the flac file.

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Charles Steinkuehler
cstein at newtek.com
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