![]() ![]() In case freedb database does not have proper album art, google images almost always have, which needs to be imported later using Mp3tag or similar utility. Latest ID3v2 specification is 2.4, however it is not widely used, therefore 2.3 is to be usedįor albums with multiple artists, Album artist should be set to “Various Artists” and artist for individual tracks are to be set one by one.įor classical music, the composer is kept as artist (album artist), while the performing orchestra, conductor and soloist is noted in parenthesis after the title of the piece.įor Album art 500x500 pixel resolution preferred (though preferably no more than 100 kBs), alternatively 400x400 or 300x300 is acceptable. When ripping metadata fields are to be checked, especially for artist, album title, track title, year, genre, album art.įLAC files should be appended with FLAC ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, for compatibility with the widest range of devices. 8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=% albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=% tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=% albuminterpret%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=% albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=% cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=% totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=% numtracks%" % hascover%-picture="% coverfile%"% hascover% %source% -o % dest% EAC settings and other ripping related issuesįLAC optional parameters for use within EAC: In order to get accented characters displayed properly under Windows, use the utf2uc converter (now running in Windows command prompt)Ģ. Linux uses UTF-8 character encoding, while Windows is using UTF-16 (calling it Unicode). Mp3 Encoding uses Lame encoder and the flac2mp3 script which takes care of the proper coding and adding ID3v2 tags as well as album art.Ĭataloging can also be run in Linux using the flaclist script, which produces. If Album art to be added from Google results or other FLAC ID, or ID3v2 fields are to be modified, Mp3Tag is a powerful utility under Windows. If Album arts cannot be found with built in freedb access, Google Images almost always provides an image for use Rip CDs with Exact Audio Copy either on Windows or Linux platform and save files as FLAC files along with FLAC and ID3v2 tags. The following process has been worked out and found to be useful
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