![]() Please feel free to answer any of my questions you feel like. (5) Would converting MP3 to FLAC and then to M4A make any sense in terms of minimalizing (or even eliminating) quality loss? I mean instead of just MP3 straight to M4A. (b) Does FLAC have multiple tags versions stored in them like MP3’s? Or is it always just one tag version, like M4A? (4) (a) If not, what if I converted them to the lossless format FLAC? Would there be any quality loss after converting? ![]() Is there aaany way to convert my MP3’s into M4A’s without losing quality? I was told there isn’t, but has anyone figured a workaround? While I know that I can use software to strip my MP3’s from the ID3 versions I’m not using, I’d prefer to get rid of the MP3 file format altogether. (3) I really want to get rid of this multiple ID3 version tags. (2) M4A files have only one version of tags, which means that (for example) the album field is going to be the same throughout the file, and when played in other players it’s always going to be the same. The file was exactly the same, it’s just that the music players were reading a different ID3 version. (1) I was told one ID3 version of the MP3 file had saved the first one (and that’s what iTunes was reading and showing) and another version had saved the second one (and that’s what the other player was set to display). I was informed that this is due to the file having saved different info in its other ID3 versions, and other players reading that other version instead of the one iTunes reads and displays.įor example, on iTunes, the album field would show up as “The White Album” and on another player it would show up as “THE BEATLES - The White Album ”. Playing the track seems to trigger iTunes into seeing the update.Being an iTunes user for years, I only recently found out what ID3 tags versions are on MP3 files, as I was playing the exact same MP3 file on different music players, and some players would display different info in several fields. Alternately, you can just leave it until you play the tracks. You can find some setting that you don't use or care about and make a small change. That update caused iTunes to recognize everything. I don't use ratings so I just changed them all to a 5 start rating. Then in iTunes, select those files (this works great for the unknown artist ones as they all show up together) and edit something in the get info window. You can select multiple files in Windows Explorer and choose properties to change that setting on all the files you selected. However, you need to either play the track or edit something in iTunes for iTunes to recognize it and fix itself. If you just delete that encoded by altogether, it fixes it. If I opened the properties window for one of those files, the encoded by said iTunes v1 or v2. A lot of them show up as missing artist, or in the correct artist but as Album Unknown. I have a Windows PC at work so I brought my files in, installed iTunes, and dragged the music I wanted to iTunes to import. I have tons of files from my Mac that all have complete metadata. This is old but I am having this same problem. There is always a possibility that Windows and iTunes have slightly different values in the look-up tables for some of these. Using my script CreateFolderArt before and then after the tag conversions is one way to workaround that part of the problem.Īlso of note is that certain pre-defined genres are represented by a code number rather than text so that they can be presented in the local system language. Embedded artwork is erased so needs to be reattached. In such cases you can use Convert ID3 Tag > None several times followed by Convert ID3 Tag > v2.3 and whatever iTunes knows about the file will be written back to a clean tag. In some cases edits to the metadata can be written to one tag, and visible in Windows Explorer, but iTunes insists on reading back unchanged values from the other. When there are multiple tags iTunes behaviour can sometimes be unpredictable. Files may have both ID3v1 and ID3v2.x tags, and if I read the ID3 specification correctly, there is also support for multiple ID3v2.x tags each coded for a different language. These may be introduced by other software such as Windows Media Player, Winamp, or MediaMonkey. ITunes often has an issue handling files with multiple tags. You can try mp3val, that might fix them up.Īlternatively, if the files are in a standard \\# layout then turn off Copy to iTunes Media folder when adding to library and use my script TagFromFilename to fill in the missing information.
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