Flac Cd Player

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Ihave Windows 7 and Windows Media Player 12 (I think it's the x86 not the x86-64 version but I'm not sure -- how can I be sure?) and I want a way to play FLAC files in it. I want a way to do it which is seamless and reversible. What's the best way to do this?

Also, if you haven't used it yet, I would highly recommend you take a look at VLC Media Player (Also available on Ninite). It allows FLAC audio out the box and you don't have to mess around with any messy codecs!

(and if you need these ogg/flac music files to be indexed in the WMP music library alongside typical .mp3 and .wma and .aac music files, check out -flac-files-in-media-center.html as linked by Krazy Kaos in another answer here.)

I finally figured out why I sometimes DO NOT see the original ART in my FLAC files within my smartphone. It is terribly confusing, by far I see the correct file but with some ones I see a different cover than expected and with some I only see a big question mark in my Android device, a Samsung A50. I ripped the CDs with the latest version of Exact Audio Copy and I continue to work with MP3Tag, also the latest version. The strange thing is that I see the correct cover art with those few albums within Windows10 and MP3Tag, but NOT in my smartphone. Probably the reason because I do have a separate jpg file in that specific map. I tried everything but it seems that the new data I am trying to upload with a new cover art is NOT stored within MP3tag. At least, something like that ....

I've seen something about a script who can fix this but I don't understand anything about it. I am looking for an easier way to do this. Maybe someone can explain in simple terms HOW to do? So I want to delete the complete embedded ART that is present with some FLAC files AND ALSO the amount of space that comes with it. When that happens, only THEN can I upload and save a new cover art within MP3Tag, right?

I can't get it done within Mp3Tag right now. For example, I see the correct picture in Windows with the album 21 by Adele. THE REASON: BECAUSE I also have a jpg file in that folder with the name of the album, so 21.jpg. I see that image in Windows, but I see a different image in my Android device. That is another picture INSIDE the FLAC file and it has to be removed. I am very curious to see an answer which can help me, I am busy now for a long time.

The safest way to see the correct picture in a file is to embed it. Keeping a picture in the file system does not help as it then is up to the file system to show a picture and not up to the player.

The it is always advisable to fill the same amount of fields in the files as players tend to group together files with the same contents in a particular field. And if there is no data for a certain field, then all the files with no data in that field are grouped together.

So, fill

ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, possibly TRACK and embed the picture in every file

and see what your android makes of it.

Let me reiterate ohrenkino's advice. I used to use files in the folder, and found a wide variance in how players handled it. Some showed it, some didn't, I even have one player (in a car, of all places!) that uses it's own internal database of cover art images, overriding my image sometimes, but not all the time.

I removed all the image files from my music folders, and have spent a lot of time making sure I have a good image embedded in the MP3 file. I have yet to find a player that doesn't show that embedded image, and ONLY that embedded image.

Hi, unfortunately.............maybe I didn't understand. It is obvious that I don't need a specific jpg file in the specific map and I removed them. I converted my tags as you said (ALBUMARTIST, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, TRACK). Look at the two attachments, the new one is the one I converted as you told me to do. However, in Windows I still see the right cover art in all songs (MP3Tag), that's OK but when I transferred the files to my smartphon

MP3new19211035 137 KB

MP3old19111041 184 KB

e I see in many albums a different cover and in some albums only a ? sign......and that's not what I want. I don't understand how I have to delete the embedded cover art in these FLAC files. In MP3Tag it is not possible to delete these embedded files in the FLAC files because the application did not overwrite and save the new content....

I don't believe that part.

What could be, though: you may have jpg data in the normal and in the progressive mode. Some players cannot cope with progressive jpgs.

The easiest way would be to convert such a picture first to png and then to jpg again (if that is necessary at all). You find an action for that in MP3tag:

"On a side note: why did you import the filename into the field TRACK...?"

Because you told me to do............ sorry, I don't understand. Maybe my old example of Mp3Tag was already good but i don't know how to delete the embedded content in the FLAC files for cover art.

To delete a cover:

Load the file(s)

Select the file(s)

Right-click on the cover-display in the tag panel and select "Remove cover".

Press Ctrl-S to save the modification.

A word of warning: it is usually rather hard to find a good picture. So I would save that picture to the file system first with an action of the type "Export cover to file" and a

Format string: %artist%_%title%_%_cover_type%

Like that it should be easy to get the cover back if you find that the embedded cover was not the cause for the hickups on the android device.

You have to believe me , I did exactly what you advised me to do. Per album I selected the songs, right mouse button and remove cover, then Crtl-S. Then again selected all songs per album and right mouse button on the cover image and add. Then Crtl-S again. The images I wanted I had saved locally and are the correct cover art images for the albums in question. Within Windows it all looks good again, but when I copy the albums to my Smartphone I see the wrong cover art on some albums as well as no picture at all on some .....

It really drives me crazy and just a little while longer, I throw both my PC and my smartphone out the window. I have been working on this for days and days and again, I really know a lot about computers, but I don't understand anything about this issue.

I had already written that it seems that new content / data is not being written as well as that the content of the images I wanted to delete is not actually being deleted. When I finished removing the covers I checked if the number of bytes in the full folder had decreased. That was not the case, strange ............

In that context, I had read somewhere that this is only possible through some script "under water" in Windows ............ all difficult for me but maybe you or someone else can still get me started help out. I'm not going to give up easily, but now I'm really slowly at the end of all my attempts.

MP3tag does not adapt the padding in flac files if you remove a cover. So that observation is correct (there are threads that request this feature ...).

The steps I would take:

First get everything right in MP3tag. So all files show the cover that they should.

You could filter for files that do not have a cover with

%_covers% MISSING

The number of files shown by this filter should be zero by the time you have finished editing.

Windows is no good test bed to see whether the covers are correct. If you insist, then you would have to delete all hidden files like folder.jpg, albumartsmall.jpg and thumbs.db and then see what happens.

Once the windows environment is OK, import the files to your other player.

You have to check the features of that player how that player can be triggered to update its information. If there is no real hint about that - rename the files in Windows just a little bit e.g. by adding an underscore before the extension starts.

The new filename should make the player read the file as new file.

Check what the "new" file looks like now.

If there are still files that do not show a cover in the player but in MP3tag, it would be necessary to see where the differences are.

I really don't know how to do this in MP3Tag but all my songs do have the right cover art and these cover arts are all embedded. I don't have jpg files or other images in the specific maps of the albums.

I told you earlier (sorry) I don't have any longer jpg or other images in my file system and I can see all hidden files and system files. Please, believe me. All cover art is embedded now in all the songs.

You have to check the features of that player how that player can be triggered to update its information. If there is no real hint about that - rename the files in Windows just a little bit e.g. by adding an underscore before the extension starts.

The new filename should make the player read the file as new file.

Maybe this is happening............. at the time I transfer the files to my smartphone...........maybe because of the Internet connection, the files are comparing and changing at the same time, so, I am getting over and over again the wrong cover art.... something like that? Please. let me know.

I think your files are just fine. It's also possible that the player is using the artist name (or something similar) to show a cover from it's internal database or online. I'd try foobar2000 mobile and see if it shows the expected cover or also something else.

Thanks Florian Sorry to say against MP3Tag but in my opinion it sucks..... Foobar2000 did the job! Everything works very well. I did everything well but that application MP3Tag........ Anyway I succeed finally, thanks again Florian

Hi @luvene I'm an Android user too and I have a Samsung Galaxy S10+. I've been having problems just like yours and I think maybe they are due to the space left in tag header when a cover is deleted.

When I detect these problems I use a flac frontend to convert the track to wav, and then, again convert it to flac. The tag space then is completely clear and I can load new tags.

You can get an easy flac frontend searching at sourceforge for 'flacfrontend '.

Maybe @Florian can add an option to mp3tag to completely remove/purge tag space in file and simplify the process

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