ENCODING METADATA INTO .WAV FILES?

[gsilbers]

u can do it w itunes also i believe

[quincyg]

pretty sure itunes doesnt embed in file. try mediamonkey.

[Sensater]

Originally Posted by Agzilla

Anyone know how? or software that can encode or add meta data such as artist name and title etc into a wav file. to be seen by car CD player or computer or whatever....?

Oh and it must be wav and not mp3... just to be clear, full quality for CD.

All and any help or instruction is gratefully recieved.


Thanx.

Zz.

This application will do the job nicely, I believe:

dBpoweramp

[Pedro_vde]

this is what you are looking for: Quseosoft Broadcast Wave Utilities

[Dean Roddey]

In theory a WAV file can contain metdata, since it is a 'chunked' file format, and allows for chunks of data to be embedded that may not be understand by all programs accessing it. But I'm not sure that there's any standard for metadata in WAV files that would be recognized by most players?

But, if the player can handle formats like Lossless WMA or FLAC, then those format definitely do support standardized formats for embedded data that players would recognize (if they support those formats) and they are both lossless compression formats, so they are completely identical to the WAV file, just compressed, so you save a fair bit of space.

[Hint]

Originally Posted by Agzilla

Anyone know how? or software that can encode or add meta data such as artist name and title etc into a wav file. to be seen by car CD player or computer or whatever....?

Oh and it must be wav and not mp3... just to be clear, full quality for CD.

All and any help or instruction is gratefully recieved.


Thanx.

Zz.

Switch to AIFFs if you can. They hold tags / artwork in iTunes etc.

[Fredrik]

Originally Posted by Dean Roddey

In theory a WAV file can contain metdata, since it is a 'chunked' file format, and allows for chunks of data to be embedded that may not be understand by all programs accessing it. But I'm not sure that there's any standard for metadata in WAV files that would be recognized by most players?

BWF (broadcast wave format) supports meta data, and I believe that is the primary reason for it's existence. I does what you describes and extends the wav format by adding a meta data chunk to the header. And yes, aif have meta data by default.

[Dean Roddey]

Originally Posted by Fredrik

BWF (broadcast wave format) supports meta data, and I believe that is the primary reason for it's existence. I does what you describes and extends the wav format by adding a meta data chunk to the header. And yes, aif have meta data by default.

I wasn't questioning that. As I indicated, it's supportable. The point was how many of the players out there are likely to understand that form of metadata embedding? They'll all understand MP3, WMA, FLAC, and MP4 type metadata, but they might not grok broadcast WAV format, since it's not nearly as common as a consumer format.

[Fredrik]

Ah ok, get you Dean. To hot to think straight here today, I missed the point of the question I think. For regular CDs perhaps cue sheets can be used, I believe thats how its done on red book CDs.

[xdawjeqd]

Various wav metadata types are also supported by MetadataTouch.

[chanakyasun]

As we know there are some standardized formats to embedd meta data into audio files
i want to know what are those formats

These are few i Know
MP3 - ID3,APEv2
Vorbis - vorbis comments

i want to know what are the meta data formats for

WMA - ???
MP4 - ???
AIFF - ???
AC-3 - ???
DTS - ???