Import flac metadata from csv file

[daveb30]

I am running exiftool from Linux Mint. I have a .csv for a single .fLac file (will change to an entire directory once I get this working).
When I try import a .csv to modify a tag (starting small with just one tag) I get the error
below.  The command I am entering is also shown below.

To simplify, I am doing this from within the directory where the .flac and .csv files are located

Maybe the answer is as simple as the error message states.  This can't be done to .flac files.  But I thought I saw messages on the forum talking about modifying .flac files.

Here is the command and error:

exiftool -csv=train.csv Train.flac
Error: Writing of FLAC files is not yet supported - Train.flac

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Phil Harvey]

I don't know what more I can say.

"Writing of FLAC files is not yet supported"

This indeed means that ExifTool doesn't yet have the ability to write FLAC files.

See here for a comlete list of supported file types.

- Phil

[daveb30]

Understood.  Sorry for being stupid. I thought I saw a post mentioning that they were doing that. I just wanted to confirm.

Any plans to add .flac support?  if so do you have a time frame?

THANKS   

[Phil Harvey]

No plans currently.  I can find only one other request for this feature a few years ago, so it isn't a high priority item given the amount of work it would take to implement this.

- Phil

[wywh]

Could you use alac as a workaround?

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ffmpeg -i audio.flac -c:a alac audio_alac.m4a

exiftool -overwrite_original -Title=test audio_alac.m4a

exiftool -a -G1 -s -Title audio_alac.m4a
[ItemList]      Title                           : test
[XMP-dc]        Title                           : test
- Matti

[StarGeek]

There's also metaflac.

See this SuperUser answer for writing flac metadata with ffmpeg.