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WAV to FLAC question

Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:04 pm
by Olecranon
I'm looking at purchasing MediaMonkey to convert a large collection of music that is in WAV format to FLAC. From what I've read, MediaMonkey can re-rip the CD's to FLAC, or I can convert the WAV files to FLAC.

My question is.. From a tagging perspective which is better?

I'm assuming MediaMonkey will detect album/artist/song from FreeDB when a CD is ripped, and then add that data into the FLAC files. Is there anyway to trigger this when doing a file conversion from WAV to FLAC? Or is that a manual tagging process after the conversion is done?

Thanks!

Re: WAV to FLAC question

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:45 am
by Lowlander
As both WAV and FLAC are lossless formats you can convert between them without quality loss and thus this would be a more convenient option.

If you choose to re-rip instead check out the Advanced Duplicate Addon as it can copy metadata from selected files to other files: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... +duplicate

Re: WAV to FLAC question

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:00 am
by MMFrLife
Olecranon wrote:Is there anyway to trigger this when doing a file conversion from WAV to FLAC? Or is that a manual tagging process after the conversion is done?
Lowlander wrote:convert ...... without quality loss
also, without tag loss? ....for the 10 or so basic WAV tags?

Re: WAV to FLAC question

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:06 am
by Lowlander
Within Library any Library tag should transfer to the FLAC. If not it's a bug.