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RE: Need software to compare flac and apple lossless tags

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on October 1, 2014 at 09:40:08

In Reply to: RE: Need software to compare flac and apple lossless tags posted by Goober58 on October 1, 2014 at 08:25:47:

Since you've made the FLAC your "official" archive you should be OK with trashing the entire ALAC archive, recreating it from the FLAC archive. This will be safe provided the FLAC album is complete and correct. In suggesting you "trash" it, the point is to think carefully about whether there might be some tracks that you don't have in FLAC or where the ALAC version is somehow better. If you're happy with trashing the ALAC library then here's what I would do:

1. "Trash" the entire ALAC library, perhaps by temporarily renaming it and then ultimately deleting it.

2. Use dBpoweramp bulk converter to convert all the FLAC files to ALAC. This will also copy the tags.

3. Do any directory reorganization as appropriate for iTunes, etc...

4. Vet the new ALAC library.

5. Now really "trash" the old ALAC library that you'd renamed.

There are various ways to set up the dBpoweramp bulk conversion, which means there are various ways to screw this up. I suggest a trial run with a few albums first to make sure that this is going to go well and doing careful vetting before doing the actual bulk conversion. Also, I suggest you take care to make sure you don't run out of disk space...

If your library is huge, there are some more practical considerations. First, you will be moving a lot of data around and shaking things up. So if any of your hardware (e.g. disk drives) are weak, they might fail at this point. So I would take care that you have a complete set of backups prior to beginning. Next, I would use the preliminary run to estimate how long the entire operation is likely to take. If it's more than overnight, then you can batch convert portions of it, doing one portion at a time overnight.


Tony Lauck

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