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In Reply to: RE: Need software to compare flac and apple lossless tags posted by Tony Lauck on October 01, 2014 at 09:40:08
Thanks Tony.
FWIW - both directory trees are identical, confirmed to the song named file ( -extension, thank you Beyond Compare ). The ALAC tags are more complete than the FLACs so I want to preserve the ALAC tags.
I don't want to reconvert and that is the point of my query.
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If the files are all 44/16 just convert all of the ALACs to FLAC. Again, you will have all the same audio samples. The only concern I would have would be if you were to convert 24 bit files. That's because there have been (at least in the past) issues with 24 bit ALAC implementations. (For that matter there were issues with 24 bit FLAC back around 2005.)
Obviously, if there is software that just copies the tags it will take less elapsed time. However, you will have to find and learn this software. I just use dBpoweramp, click and let it go and come back when it's done. I don't care about elapsed time, just how much attention I have to pay to it.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Yes I have high res files in FLAC that have been down converted in ALAC to maintain compatibility with my devices.
I would rather copy tags than reconvert. I don't have time to do the comparisons manually. There are going to be relatively few differences so if I know where they are I think (I could be wrong) I can do it manually. Yes it will probably take longer but it would be worth it to me to preserve the lineage of each library.
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