Topic: Foobar Mary Chain FLAC-tagging nightmare

[yousef]

I've just ripped the recent(ish) Jesus and Mary Chain 2cd reissues to FLAC via Foobar2000 to use with my Squeezebox.

But I've ended up with four versions of the band (depending on the use of the definite article, ampersand and capitalization) and all sorts of oddities with some albums being recognized as doubles and others with each disc as a separate title. One even has disc 2 split into two...

Clearly, the FLAC tags are at fault here, despite my efforts during ripping. I've just tried to correct everything by loading each album into Foobar in turn, selecting all tracks, going to properties and trying to standardize the band names and album titles. But it's still all messed up... I've instructed the Logitech Media Server to rescan for new and modified tracks but I'm still stuck in the same place.

Are there some tags that I'm not able to access after ripping? What can I do to try and sort this without having to delete and re-rip everything?

One particular oddity is that Darklands disc 1 has no cover art while disc 2 does. But I haven't embedded any art, just dropped a file named 'cover.jpg' in the directory that containe all the tracks from both discs...

Somebody help me - this is driving me round the bend 

[page]

how comfortable are you with the command line tools (metaflac or something like that) and/or Traders Little Helper (I guess that's it, we use xact on the mac).

It's just strip all of the tag information for select fields and then type it in again for just those fields. No re-ripping, and (unless the tool of choice has issues) no re-encoding.

[yousef]

That sounds promising... Thank you - will have a try tomorrow.

[JasonSobel]

you can also easily change the FLAC tags directly in foobar.  again, no need to re-rip, or re-convert anything.  just highlight all the tracks that you want to change, right-click, and select properties (or highlight and hit alt-enter).

[yousef]

you can also easily change the FLAC tags directly in foobar.  again, no need to re-rip, or re-convert anything.  just highlight all the tracks that you want to change, right-click, and select properties (or highlight and hit alt-enter).

I've tried this (see above) but was left in the same situation - hence wondering if there were tags that couldn't be accessed via that route.

[page]

I had this same thing happen once in another program about a week ago; I just could change/delete one of the tags, its like it wanted to stick or something.

The easiest method is to copy your tags out (export them if you can) and decode to wave and re-encode to flac and just retag them. If you have access to metaflac directly, you can just issue the delete/wipe command for those specific tags, but if you don't, then the decode/re-encode works.