[jsz0]

I'm not familiar with the current state of FLAC but as of a few years ago ALAC offered better meta-data in the MP4 container. Part of the reason I abandoned FLAC years ago was constant problems with meta-data. I would often end up corrupt files post-tagging or the player would simply not show meta-data I had meticulously added to my bootleg collection. I got the sense at the time that there was a lack of agreement on how meta-data was supposed to work in FLAC files.

[nitrogen]

Note to uriel: your last few posts are all [dead] for some reason.

  uriel 2 hours ago | link [dead]

  Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where
  the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg
  Vorbis.

  In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, and
  never had trouble with metadata, sounds like a bug in
  whatever player you were using.

[Freaky]

The Ogg container is optional, and I can't say I've seen it used much, if ever - I gather its main use was for streaming. FLAC has its own metadata as part of the spec: http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block

[uriel]

Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg Vorbis.

In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, and never had trouble with metadata, sounds like a bug in whatever player you were using.