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[gkerber]

I've been using EAC and APE compression to rip my collection.

The TRACK ID tag is never filled out and I have to add in the information  manually in MJ.  The MJ APE encoder does populate the TRACK ID field.

Does anyone know how to get EAC to do it?

[Matt]

Just add ID3v1.1 tags to the APE files you're ripping (instead of ID3v1).  The problem is that EAC doesn't understand APE Tagging (what APE files use instead of ID3v1.1), but Media Jukebox does.  

APE files also support ID3v1.1 tags, so add those from EAC.  Just make sure you're not adding ID3v2 tags.

Take care.

-Matt

[Durgame]

Matt writes:

> APE files also support ID3v1.1 tags, so add those from EAC. Just make sure you're not adding ID3v2 tags

Can you tell us, again perhaps, what damage ID3v2 tags make in APE files.  

EAC also has an option to use ID3v2.4.0 instead ID3v2.3.0 - any comment on that?

Durgame

[Bill Ko]

I have an answer for you guys.  With EAC, rip with compression on, using the APE dll (NOT "external compression").  That will automatically generate a tag.  If you let EAC get the track info from freedb, you'll have the added luxury of having track info included!  (I find freedb to be at least as accurate as CDDB.)

EAC will slow down a bit because it's compressing on the fly, but it's still faster than ripping to a wav, then compressing it (which doesn't write a tag).

If you want to modify the waveform with an external editor (which I can only imagine in the rarest of circumstances, because the MJ editor is very, very good), do the following: import the *unmodified* APE file into MJ, so it writes the file info into its database.  Un-APE the file into a waveform, edit it, save it, then re-APE it *to the original APE file*.  Then, in the drop-down menu on the lower left corner of the file's MJ properties, change "Update Changed Files" to "Update All Files."  then save the changes.  This forces MJ to actually write the tag info back to your new file (which, since you un-APEd, edited, and re-APEd, doesn't have a tag any more).

Hope this helps,

Bill

[Matt]

Can you tell us, again perhaps, what damage ID3v2 tags make in APE files.

They're not supported, so it's a little like jury-riggin' a Ford T-45 into your Buick Roadmaster -- it might sort of work, but it's probably not the best idea.