[Flac] inflating tags from .flac

[Eric Wollesen]

On 08/24/2010 01:55 PM, zuboskal 14 wrote:
> I need help with transcoding .flac to .m4a. All my audio gadget support
> flac and ogg, except mobile phone. It only support mp3 and aac.
> I have more than 1 album in flac, and I wanted to write a script for
> this. But I don't now how to extract metadata from .flac file.
> I easy can decode flac to wav & wav to m4a, but all metadata is lost! It
> lost just after 'flac -d'(((
>
> I try:
> $ id3cp 01.intro.flac 01.intro.m4a
> Parsing 01.intro.flac: done. Copying to 01.intro.m4a: done
>
> but without results - .m4a have not tags.

Flac files don't normally have ID3 tags, so id3cp might not work.  The 
normal tool for extracting metadata from flac files is metaflac. 
Something like:

$ metaflac --export-tags-to=- 01.intro.flac

Might give you that for which you are looking.

Good luck,

e.
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