putting Tags on EAC Rips

[Brian Ono]

I have not been able to find an easy way to tag my EAC rips,any suggestions will be welcome(I did check on the EAC SITE but it didnt really help me with my limited technical understanding.:confused:

[tkr001]

What format have you ripped to? There are many tagging programs out there including free ones.

[Brian Ono]

I always rip to WAV,

[Nathan]

As I understand it WAV has limited tagging functionality/fields.

dbPoweramp will let you tag them though, you need the pay version as the free version only supports ripping and transcoding.

[tkr001]

If you have ripped to wav forget tagging. I compromised by using AIFF which played through my Hackintosh sounds better than FLAC.

[Ta Moko]

Hi Brian - have you tried FLAC? I also wanted to use WAV at first, but became frustrated by the same metadata issues you're having.

[Nathan]

If you have ripped to wav forget tagging. I compromised by using AIFF which played through my Hackintosh sounds better than FLAC.
What audio playback software are you using out of interest? What sort of differences do you notice between FLAC and AIFF?

[Ta Moko]

As odd as it may sound - since they're all essentially bit perfect facsimiles of the original - I too have perceived not so subtle differences between the high quality proprietary Apple formats (AIFF & Apple Lossless) and WAV & FLAC.

Without exaggeration, even in the context of a system of middling resolve, such as my own, the difference between Apple Lossless and FLAC is not unlike the effects of replacing a slightly veiled sounding CD player with another of superior transparency and resolution. Basically they (AIFF & ALAC) lack top end sparkle, in fact sounding quite dull with a congested (almost compressed) sounding midband.

Now before I invite a torrent of angry responses, I'm not suggesting the Apple formats are poor... I attribute my (non-scientific/completely anecdotal) finding to some sort of superior compatibility with the Windows OS. So in a way I'm unsurprised to hear that tkr reckons AIFF sounds better than FLAC does on his machine.

I experimented quite a bit with all 4 before finally deciding on FLAC - I do my rips using EAC.

[Willie]

Hi Brian,

Try this link for using EAC... it is a setup for FLAC but you could change it for your desired compression method.
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Flac

About the different lossless compression methods... Common sense says that there should be no difference. As Ta Moko says and I can confirm that they do make a difference when played through a squeezebox touch. However this difference is not a problem of the compression methods as test show that FLAC files are bit perfect with the origional. The way around this with a squeezebox setup is to have your server transcode the files back to wave before they sent to the squeezebox.

[JamesB]

I've used mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) for adding tags to files that were ripped to WAV and later converted to FLAC. It's got great features like the ability to generate tags based on information from the file path -- but if you're technically challenged these features may be difficult to configure...

[marantz]

For the Mac users, what programs do you recommend for ripping to flac?

[Ruahine]

For the Mac users, what programs do you recommend for ripping to flac?

I've been using MAX with good results.

http://sbooth.org/Max/