Transferring mp3 tags to flac files

[Jaikonaut]

Hi, first of all thanks to the developer for this fine program. I absolutely love its features, results and the ability to write to flac files.

Here’s my question: There’s a program out there called “Mixed in Key”. It finds the key of a song and writes it into the comment tag which is essential for harmonic mixing. Unfortunately it only works with mp3 files. Now I face the problem that I have to copy this comment tag from the mp3 versions to the identical flac versions of my files which I need for Pro Audio applications (like Ableton Live).

In other words: How can I copy the content of a certain tag field from one file type to another? We’re talking about +10k files so manual operation is not really an option… Does anybody have a hint or an idea how to achieve it with Jaikoz?

Thank you.

[wynlyndd]

Does the tag show up in Jaikoz?

If so, this might work for you but I didn’t exhaustively try…

I had a folder of FLACs and mp3s made from the FLACs. Opened the folder in Jaikoz, and sorted by the type of file, mp3s on top and flacs on bottom. they appeared to all be sorted in the same order within their specific type.

Since they were in the same order,
I found a column of info to play around with (I think I used composer for my test and added some dummy data since most of my files don’t have composer info). Selected that information in that column for the mp3s only, then right clicked and did a copy. Then selected that column of info for the flacs only , and right-clicked and choose I think the command is paste special or something to that effect. Regular paste only does the first line but the other paste fills in every line even if the lines are different from each other.

I use that special paste when I have changed the subfolder of a handful of stuff that I shouldn’t have and so I copy from the window that shows previous value and then special paste to return them back.

(Jaikoz is in a big tagging session right now or I would look u the exact command.)

[Jaikonaut]

Wow, this is a very smart idea! And so kind of you that you tried it before answering. I will do some testing myself before applying but I can already see that this is my solution.

Thanks for your help, wynlyndd. You saved me a lot of time.