Music database identifier (e.g. MBID) in EAC FLAC/Vorbis metadata

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I want to …

  • … rip Audio CDs with FLAC output using Exact Audio Copy (EAC).
  • … include an universally unique identifier for the exact release (specific label/year/country/etc.), additionally to common fields like artist, etc.
  • … preferably use the MBID (MusicBrainz Identifier) for this cause, since MusicBrainz is free and quite complete.
  • … add it via command line options, as EAC tags work: -T⠀"VORBISCOMMENTFIELD=%eacplaceholder%"
  • … have this done on-the-fly during a single rip (i.e. no manual post-encoding lookup).

My problems are that …

  • … the EAC FAQ lists some placeholders, but merely %cddbid% (freedb ID) in regards to this question.
  • … I can’t quite find standardized Vorbis comment fields corresponding to music database identifiers (like CATALOGID/CATALOGNUMBER or concrete CDDB/freedb/etc. IDs).
  • … though MusicBrainz Picard maps their tag system rather nicely …
  • … EAC seems to be the limiting factor, since it seemingly cannot convey fetched metadata arbitrarily to the encoder parameters.

Does somebody know a solution to this?

Or is this too specific and ought to be asked someplace particularly devoted to EAC?

dakab

Posted 2020-01-04T20:32:12.103

Reputation: 115

While waiting and searching for a more comfortable solution, I have MusicBrainz Picard opened parallel to EAC and lookup releases with it.

– dakab – 2020-01-07T21:33:27.403

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