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Metadata Tags Corrupting FLAC Files?

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syndromeofadown:
Here is a guide to check and fix ID3 tags in FLAC. I can confirm it works.
https://community.bose.com/t5/SoundTouch-Archive/FLAC-Files-With-ID3-Tags-Workaround/td-p/8395

MC is very forgiving with corrupt music files. The only time I find corrupt files is when MC won't play them correctly with DLNA/UPnP. I see this is in the mac section but using Windows you try playing the files with foobar, it will give an error with the time code of the issue. If you have DBPoweramp installed there should be an error that comes up when trying to copy the files. Something about failed permissions. It has nothing to do with permissions, it just happens with corrupted files during copying.

chrisgreen:
I have done more reading and experimenting, and I think I understand the tagging issue a bit better. Let me see if I have this understood correctly...

MC maps metadata fields to different file format 'frames' (I hope I am using the term 'frame' correctly, I picked it up studying Kid3). Metadata is mapped to Vorbis 'frames' for FLAC files. Correct? It seems that MC does not write metadata to ID3 'frames' when tagging a FLAC file, but does write to ID3 'frames' for some other file types (MP3, for example).

In theory, MC should not corrupt a FLAC file when writing metadata. Is this correct? Are there instances when MC could corrupt a FLAC file when writing metadata?

One more question, can MC identify a FLAC file that is missing some pieces (e.g. a BitTorrent download that was not completed?). I don't see these files getting flagged by MC when I run Analyze Audio. Am I missing something?

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