Read AIFF metadata

Hi Everyone, I bought some AIFF tracks from Beatport the other day. I prefer them over WAV because the AIFF have embedded album art, song name, etc. I loaded them up in Audacious (F17+GNOME) which played them happily. But, it's not reading any of the metadata. All of the fields are displayed as empty. I tried VLC and mplayer, too. Still nothing. I downloaded the same tracks on to a Windows 7 PC and listened to them with VLC. VLC read the metadata without any problems. Hmmm.... I then installed Kid3 to see if it could read the metadata. Sure enough, it was all there. So, the tracks are clearly not broken. I tried converting the AIFFs to FLAC with ffmpeg and flac, but the metadata was still missing. I'd appreciate a recommendation for an audio player that can read AIFF metadata in GNOME or better yet, how I can convert these AIFFs to FLAC and keep the metadata intact. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 09:55:17 up 6 days, 20:36, 9 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.05