Copy Flac Genre Tag to MP3 ID3 tag

**bonelifer** · May 12th, 2013

I rip my CD's to FLAC and also convert those to MP3's for devices I have that need MP3. I have one album that is Various Artists from various genres with 4 CD's. When I first ripped I didn't think to set the Genre for each track. I've updated the FLAC but would rather not try and manually copy that if I can get a bash script(in case this happens again).

Identical folder structure, and identical filenames. I just want to get the GENRE from the FLAC file and copy it to the Genre tag in the MP3.

**scbingham** · May 14th, 2013

I use Sound Converter, which is available from the Software Centre to convert music files to mp3 and it copies the tags over too.

**bonelifer** · May 14th, 2013

Yeah, these didn't have the genre when ripped. I'm trying to find a script to copy them from the FLAC(that I've since added the genre for each track). The info wasn't available when converted being a various artist cd, the person that added that info to the freedb couldn't do a track by track genre. I'm just looking to see if anyone knows of a way to automatically do this via a bash script.