How to get Metadata in Exact Audio Copy EAC ripping

Hey @jafant

Based upon your recommendations, I downloaded and love the Atzko Kohashi Dualtones album from Sound Liaison in DSD format earlier this year. Wonderful stuff.

The purchase was straightforward and the download was immediate and quick. No problems.

Let me know if I can help.

Tom

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Much Thanks! guys.

here is the source;
www.soundliaison.com

this is a hi-rez download site in the Netherlands (NL).

Anyone done business w/ these guys? Know someone whom uses this site?

" Metadata is a fancy word for the information about the songs/album. This information is stored in the files themselves for formats that allow for it (flac does while wav does not). This allows music players (not usually CD players although I'm sure there are exceptions) to display the song title, album title, artist, album artwork, etc. during playback."

That's all correct, but I would add 1 thing. If you're new computer based audio, it's very easy to confuse metadata (or tags-same thing), with file system info, especially if you have a music player that has both file and library views. 

For example, if you look at your music files in Windows Explorer, you'll see your music however it looks on your hard drive. Metadada (tagging) is completely different. Let's say you download files from the band "Rolling Stones" and you want it to be "The Rolling Stones" instead. If you make the name change to the file itself in Explorer, you won't see the change in library view (metadata). Or, if you retag the metadata, you won't see the change in the file structure. 

If you're not aware of the above you run the risk of throwing your computer out the closest window. 

@jafant The download process is going to be somewhat specific to the source you are downloading from.  For example, HD Tracks has its own downloader app that installs on your PC to manage the download (it can download multiple tracks at once).

For burning I use a free program called CDBurnerXP which, despite its name, runs fine on Windows versions post-XP.  It will automatically convert the flac files you downloaded to wav files on the fly while burning (wav is the native format for CDs).  Windows 10 may have something built in but I'm not sure (I'm still using 7) and it would have to convert the flac files to wav as well.

Metadata is a fancy word for the information about the songs/album.  This information is stored in the files themselves for formats that allow for it (flac does while wav does not).  This allows music players (not usually CD players although I'm sure there are exceptions) to display the song title, album title, artist, album artwork, etc. during playback.
Dick

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Experts,

I am new to the as well. I am interested in a download in FLAC format, as the title/music, is not offered on CD/SACD.

I use a Dell PC w/ Windows 10. I wish to download in the simplest of way,
store the file, burn onto a CD-r. A one-time only endeavor.

I would be grateful for your consultations.  What is Metadata?

Use DB Poweramp and rip to FLAC. 

Download a free tagger called Ex Falso. Its powerful and very easy to use. It also comes packaged with a free music player called Quodlibet.

I use EAC on Windows 10 without issue.  Also,  I use Foobar 2000. If you fill out the Metadata info before burning, you can finish it up within Foobar. Requires a bit of work, but works well.

EAC does not have a download for Windows 10? anyone

g_chops - the .wav format does not have native support for metadata.  There are some programs I have heard of (but not used) that link metadata to files ripped in the .wav format.  They are keeping the metadata in another file and showing it whenever the .wav file is played.  Of course the method for doing this is specific to the software being used.  @gs5556 is correct that EAC doesn't support metadata tags (at least back when I was using it although there might be some sort of add-on that does by now).  I use dbPoweramp (not free but not that expensive) and rip to flac which does support metadata.

As far as I know, EAC does not support metadata id tags for .wav files. You have to compress the rip into .flac

If you want to use metadata in.wav, you can use Media Monkey to fill in the data fields manually after ripping with EAC.