Splitting out a question from my adventures in AAC conversion...
Last night, I continued messing around converting my APL files to AAC. I got a conversion process working in Foobar2000. When I converted a track, it imported flawlessly into iTunes--complete with basic tag information. It imported into MC as well, but without any tags.
I then ran fb2k's "MP4 Utilities->Opmtimize mp4 layout" which supposedly consolidates the tags & makes the header all pretty. The tracks still imported correctly into iTunes, but now they imported correctly into MC--except for the 'Genre' tag.
Looking at the tags in fb2k (File info [special]) shows that all of my custom MC tags are carried over into the converted file, but none of those tags show up in either iTunes or in MC.
Any ideas as to why 'optimize mp4 layout' is needed? Why does the genre tag not carry over? Worst of all, why are MC tags that are exactly the same between the 2 files not import correctly when bringing in the new AAC files? What's the possibility of sorting this stuff out? I have examples if anyone is interested.
Best,
Brad