How to preserve ID3 tags using TuneClone

In most of my previous posts, I talked about how to use TuneClone’s virtual CD drive to burn DRM protected music, including iTunes music, Windows Media Player music, RealPlayer music, WinAMP music, Napster Music and Rhapsody music. Some of these media players like iTunes, RealPlayer and Napster support burning music with CD text, while others don’t. Therefore, in this post, I am going to show how to preserve the music metadata about title, artist, album, etc. while burning music with TuneClone Audio Converter.

For iTunes, RealPlayer and Napster

It is very easy to keep ID3 tags when you burn iTunes, RealPlayer or Napster music.

When you make the burning settings, make sure you tick the “Include CD Text” (in iTunes 8), “Write CD text to my audio CD” (in RealPlayer) or “Burn CD Text” (in Napster) option. The information will be well preserved after the burning and encoding process. Take a look at the screenshots below:

For Windows Media Player, WinAMP and Rhapsody

However, since Windows Media Player, WinAMP and Rhapsody don’t provide such an option, you will get the output files formatted as 01-1.mp3, 01-2.mp3, etc. This is very annoying since all the metadata information is missing.

Tuneclone Audio Converter comes to the rescue! You just need an additional step after the burning and encoding process:

Click the output songs in the manager screen and drag the counterpart original songs in Windows Media Player, WinAMP or Rhapsody to the “Track Info” panel of TuneClone one by one. The information about the artist, album, title, etc. will be automatically changed accordingly.

It would be a time-consuming process if you are burning a big collection of music. However, since Windows Media Player, WinAMP and Rhapsody don’t support CD-text burning, this seems to be the only way to get the information back.

If only TuneClone would consider adding the support for batch changing the information rather than dragging one by one!

Look forward to the improvement!

How to virtually burn RM music to MP3 with RealPlayer

TuneClone is a unique audio converter application. Compared with other audio converter programs, TuneClone converts music files via a virtual CD Drive. All you need to do is burn your playlist to TuneClone’s virtual CD drive by using your media player software, such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, WinAMP, etc. The key step to use TuneClone is to select TuneClone’s virtual CD-RW drive as CD burner. Your music files will be automatically converted during the burning process.

Below are the detailed tutorial about how to burn RM music to TuneClone’s virtual CD drive with RealPlayer:

Step 1. Download TuneClone from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it.

TuneClone is fully compatible with Windows XP, Vista. A virtual CD Burner will be installed. This virtual CD-RW will be used to convert music files.

Step 2. Launch RealPlayer and Click Burn/Transfer button. Change the Current Burner/Device to Audio CD Burner.

 
Step 3. Click the Edit Options… button and you will see the dialogue window below:

 
Click the Advanced Options… button. In the following dialogue window, change the default CD burner to TuneClon Virtual_CD-RW.

 
Step 4. Start burning.

Back to the main screen, add music files to the list and click Burn Your CD button.

After the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.

 
The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.