Transcoding wav to flac

[paultaylor]

(08-03-2017 12:44)Pepsican Wrote:  My misunderstanding. I thought you meant the target did not have the field. But if you don't see them in the source, then any mapping would become somewhat problematic indeed. Perhaps request this for the next release of DBPowerAmp?

Hi, yes I did mention it to Spoon some time ago but don't know if it will be implemented, because the tag is re-added you lose this information even if you transcode to a format that still supports ID3 (e.g Wav - > Mp3). It got me thinking about an application I would like to do that could extract metadata tag from a set of files and store in a database. Then at a later stage allow the tag to be put back into a transcoded version of the file. If both file versions support the same tagging format then it could be put back exactly as it was, if a different format then it would have to be converted but in a more intelligent way than done by DbPoweramp.

[Pepsican]

(09-03-2017 11:20)paultaylor Wrote:  

(08-03-2017 12:44)Pepsican Wrote:  My misunderstanding. I thought you meant the target did not have the field. But if you don't see them in the source, then any mapping would become somewhat problematic indeed. Perhaps request this for the next release of DBPowerAmp?

Hi, yes I did mention it to Spoon some time ago but don't know if it will be implemented, because the tag is re-added you lose this information even if you transcode to a format that still supports ID3 (e.g Wav - > Mp3). It got me thinking about an application I would like to do that could extract metadata tag from a set of files and store in a database. Then at a later stage allow the tag to be put back into a transcoded version of the file. If both file versions support the same tagging format then it could be put back exactly as it was, if a different format then it would have to be converted but in a more intelligent way than done by DbPoweramp.

Check what MP3Tag does. It allows for a mapping mechanism (although not to the extend you'd want it). Could be interesting.