RE: old burned cd file in wav

Thanks Mark,

 

I guess I am getting confused as to who said what.  What did you mean by the comment, “My copy of EAC (and Easy AC) doesn't add ID3 tags to FLAC files, because I didn't tell it to do such a stupid thing”.  How would you tell EAC to add ID3 comments given your confirmation that it doesn’t control that?

 

Mike

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 5:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav

 

  

No, your second statement is correct: the flac.exe (or flac.dll, it's been so long that I forget which is used) writes FLAC tags, and that's all. EAC doesn't try to meddle with that. I didn't uncheck anything, that was the default: if you're making FLAC files, EAC will create them with only FLAC tags.

 

-- m.

 

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:45 PM 'M' [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:

  

Thanks Fred,

 

Here is my confusion.  I am assuming from your comment “My copy of EAC (and Easy AC) doesn't add ID3 tags to FLAC files, because I didn't tell it to do such a stupid thing” means you uncheck the box in the config window to add ID3 tags.  But what I don’t understand is why that should be an issue.  EAC uses the FLAC.exe compression engine to compress the files and passes along the tags from the main window based on the additional command line options.  This matches up the data from EAC to the vorbis comments.  How would ID3 tags get written and why would they be written elsewhere than to vorbis comments.  Isn’t this controlled by flax.exe and wouldn’t it ignore ID3 data?

 

Mike

 

 

 

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