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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: theloniouscoltrane on November 22, 2013, 05:39:17 pm

Title: I have several FLAC files that play, but they are missing lots of data
Post by: theloniouscoltrane on November 22, 2013, 05:39:17 pm

Like duration, bitrate, and genre. How do I get them in there?

Title: Re: I have several FLAC files that play, but they are missing lots of data
Post by: BryanC on November 22, 2013, 05:54:38 pm

Genre is a user-defined field so that will be up to you to fill. However, duration and bitrate should be automatically populated. It is possible you might have a borked FLAC header. One possibility is to transcode your FLAC collection to the latest version of FLAC.

You can do this by downloading the FLAC binary from their main site and using the --force option.

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flac abc.flac --force

Automated batch script that will reencode all flac files it finds recursively:
Save as something.bat and run in the top-level music directory

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for /r %%i in (.\*.flac) do flac %%i --force

To run at the CMD prompt instead:

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for /r %i in (.\*.flac) do flac %i --force

Title: Re: I have several FLAC files that play, but they are missing lots of data
Post by: MrC on November 22, 2013, 05:59:10 pm

I think Library Tools > Update Library (from tags) will also set these values (assuming the flac file is not corrupt).

Title: Re: I have several FLAC files that play, but they are missing lots of data
Post by: theloniouscoltrane on November 23, 2013, 11:43:47 am

Thanks for the advice. Turns out the files were corrupted so Library Tools > Update Library (from tags) didn't work. Luckily, I still had all the .wav files, so I redid the conversion and now everything is fixed. Thanks again. I'm new here and I am so happy to see an active and engaged forum filled with helpful folks.