[Todd R]

....how do I embed the artwork?
I plan to play these from my Mac to a Logitech Transporter.

I don't have the fancy remote with the display in it yet, but plan on buying one which is why the album art is going to be important.

 

[paaj]

With iTunes+ALAC you can just drop the artwork in the Info field. There must be some similar way to do it for FLAC in Foobar/Winamp etc.

or look for a program like mp3tag

 

[krmathis]

You should be able to add artwork using 'metaflac', which is part of FLAC itself (although separate binary).
FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

 

[Todd R]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif You should be able to add artwork using 'metaflac', which is part of FLAC itself (although separate binary). FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

Thanks but which one of the 5 files is the one to use? I don't see metaflac anywhere on the downloads page. (I already have a copy of MacFlac)

 

[TheRH]

There is an easy solution, use Media Monkey, this will play virtually any sound format. Use the auto-tag album art for your albums. What this does is embed the album art with each song, and this should solve your problem. Look at this article, Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part II - Album art - Alpha Geek - Lifehacker , this should help.

RH

 

[Todd R]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRH /img/forum/go_quote.gif There is an easy solution, use Media Monkey, this will play virtually any sound format. Use the auto-tag album art for your albums. What this does is embed the album art with each song, and this should solve your problem. Look at this article, Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part II - Album art - Alpha Geek - Lifehacker , this should help. RH

Thanks but I'm on a Mac

 

[TheRH]

Hmm, got me there.

 

[nwkid178]

A word of caution about Itunes... I don't know about MAC but on PC, itunes does not actually embed the artwork into the file, rather indexes it for the itunes library, meaning if you tag with itunes and then use the same file elsewhere, the artwork will not be there. At least if you want to use itUnes you can use fluke because you have a MAC.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Todd R /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks but which one of the 5 files is the one to use? I don't see metaflac anywhere on the downloads page. (I already have a copy of MacFlac)

This one: Download FLAC-Free Lossless Audio Codec from SourceForge.net
As written, metaflac is part of FLAC and comes bundles with the encoder/decoder.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nwkid178 /img/forum/go_quote.gif A word of caution about Itunes... I don't know about MAC but on PC, itunes does not actually embed the artwork into the file, rather indexes it for the itunes library, meaning if you tag with itunes and then use the same file elsewhere, the artwork will not be there. At least if you want to use itUnes you can use fluke because you have a MAC.

Then iTunes on Mac OS X is different, cause when tagging it certainly embed artwork into the files.

 

[paaj]

Depends, the automatic artwork option stores the actual album art somewhere else, but if you open the info and add it yourself it is stored in the file. That's the OSX way, have not tested the Windows version.

 

[Todd R]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif This one: Download FLAC-Free Lossless Audio Codec from SourceForge.net As written, metaflac is part of FLAC and comes bundles with the encoder/decoder.

OK thanks.
I got that one & installed it.
Now what?

MacFlac looks no different, iTunes is no different, and I can't even find the file I installed?
Sorry to sound so stupid but I don't get what I'm supposed to do now. What am I missing?

BTW, looks like I need to tag some of these with track names, artists, etc.. too.

 

[limpidglitch]

Can't you just convert the files to ALAC using Max, and then import and tag them in iTunes?
Or will this degrade quality?

 

[Todd R]

Quote:

Originally Posted by limpidglitch /img/forum/go_quote.gif Can't you just convert the files to ALAC using Max, and then import and tag them in iTunes? Or will this degrade quality?

I'm trying to keep these files intact as 24/96 flac. This is the reason I bought the transporter over the Duet is because the transporter will play the higher resolution files.

FYI, on my computer I can play these files with Toast or VLC. I tried to add data to these track through VLC but it does not seem to work.

 

[paaj]

I think ALAC is also 24/96 compatible? You could try to convert FLAC to ALAC using XLD and see if it comes out as 24/96.

 

[limpidglitch]

A quick search gave me this.

Anybody know wether an update has been released? [edit: I just downloaded v0.9.1, will test it shortly.]

In any case XLD seems to be an option. Worth a try I guess.