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copy all tags and metadata block (eg. APPLICATION) with metaflac
It would be great to have an opportunity to copy ALL TAGS and metadata blocks from one flac file to the other without encoding.
Does the flac command line program not do that already? If it doesn't can you give me an example command and input file where all tags are not copied?
no, flac makes even more. the point is to have full control over all tags WITHOUT encoding.
Sorry, I really have zero idea of what you are talking about. You need to explain it much better and provide an example.
because copying tags and metadata block by metaflac means also ability to edit them. this is what for is metaflac. to copy, to remove, to edit. currently metaflac does not control all non-stream blocks.
With PR #549 copying of all metadata blocks (except seektable and streaminfo which can't and shouldn't be copied) can be done as follows
metaflac --remove --except-block-type=STREAMINFO,SEEKTABLE destinationfile.flac
metaflac --list --data-format=binary sourcefile.flac --except-block-type=STREAMINFO,SEEKTABLE | metaflac --append destinationfile.flac
This first removes the existing metadata blocks in the destination and then exports and imports metadata with two metaflac calls.
