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Back-Tagging

#1

While I have found THE software for tagging my flac files (Jaikoz!), and can get to the task of flac’ing, tagging, and mp3’ing the remaining 500 CDs in our collection that have been re-ripped after our catastrophic music hard disk failure, I still have a final bit of trouble to resolve…

My lovely spouse has gone to the trouble of ripping (EAC) around 300 of our CDs directly to .wav files :frowning: converting them to .mp3 and tagging the .mp3 files :-(^2. It would be a major insult to her, not to preserve all that work somehow (especially since much of her info and images do not exist anywhere online).

So now that I have flac’ed the .wav files, I’m trying to figure out how to back-tag the .flac files from the mp3 files. Any ideas how I can accomplish this?

#2

[quote=iMikla]While I have found THE software for tagging my flac files (Jaikoz!), and can get to the task of flac’ing, tagging, and mp3’ing the remaining 500 CDs in our collection that have been re-ripped after our catastrophic music hard disk failure, I still have a final bit of trouble to resolve…

My lovely spouse has gone to the trouble of ripping (EAC) around 300 of our CDs directly to .wav files :frowning: converting them to .mp3 and tagging the .mp3 files :-(^2. It would be a major insult to her, not to preserve all that work somehow (especially since much of her info and images do not exist anywhere online).

So now that I have flac’ed the .wav files, I’m trying to figure out how to back-tag the .flac files from the mp3 files. Any ideas how I can accomplish this?
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my (albeit not quite so pretty solution) would be to mix the flacs and mp3s in the same folder. Sort by type (flac or mp3). they should be in the same order in the mp3 section as the flac. Then you can cut and paste whole sections of the column to records below. Experiment with one folder first.

#3

Interesting… I’m assuming that somehow the folder would have to be set to be in a form that would show information from the tags (all mine are in details view). I wonder if that would get everything (pictures, lyrics, etc…).

I appreciate the suggestion, but it might be faster to pull them all up inside of Jaikoz and copy/paste. Just not looking forward to such a task, we’re talking 3,000 to 4,000 files there-abouts…

I thought about trying to use the spreadsheet thing, but it doesn’t get the pictures and it adds things (like “English::” gets stuffed into a field that I couldn’t get rid of).

#4

Oh, on re-reading, I think you mean to do that inside Jaikoz with cut / paste. Yes, that seems to be the only way so far…

#5

The other method, is to use the Advanced/Export option to export the information to a spreadsheet, you can then edit the information and import the changes back into the files. (But this won’t handle coverart and will only take first value in fields that allow multiples such genres.)

i.e
Assuming you want to keep the flac files, but all the metadata is in the mp3 files:
Load Flac Files into Jaikoz and Advancec/Export as File1
Load Mp3 Files into Jaikoz and Advanced/Export as File2
In Spreadsheet copy the important metadata from File2 into the equivalent row in File1.
Load Flac files back into Jaikoz
Advanced/Import/File1 to uipdate the metadata in your Flac files with the information from the spreasheet.

#6

You know, I sometimes forget about the excel spreadsheet method. I need to play around with that more.

Also, I just realized, with my suggestion they do not need to be in the same folder.