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by Tom Dennehy
Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:50 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Metadata Tags in WAV Files
Replies: 6
Views: 4589

Re: Metadata Tags in WAV Files

I have the Audacity source because I wanted to take a swing at building for Windows with the Steinberg ASIO SDK for 24-bit recording. If I updated taglib to write the additional fields, would you accept a user submission?


Cheers,
TGD
by Tom Dennehy
Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:13 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Metadata Tags in WAV Files
Replies: 6
Views: 4589

Re: Metadata Tags in WAV Files

Audacity is currently writing the following chunks to the INFO section of a WAV file it exports: IART: Artist Name INAM: Track Name ICRD: Year See attachment for "Start Me Up." [attachment=1]Start Me Up (Aud).txt[/attachment] Windows Media Player (WMP) writes the following chuncks to the INFO sectio...
by Tom Dennehy
Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:14 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Metadata Tags in WAV Files
Replies: 6
Views: 4589

Metadata Tags in WAV Files

Using Audacity 1.3.14-Beta on Windows 7. I complete the following metadata tags for indivdiual track export as WAV: Artist, Track Title, Album Title, Track #, Genre, Year. But the only tags that seem to be written to the WAV file header are Artist, Track Title, and Year. Is this a bug, or are there ...
by Tom Dennehy
Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:51 am
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?
Replies: 12
Views: 5929

Re: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?

The longer sound sample is 307 KB. Too big?
by Tom Dennehy
Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:05 am
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?
Replies: 12
Views: 5929

Re: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?

Attached is a 7-second sequence from the track containing all instances of the phenomenon.


TGD
by Tom Dennehy
Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:58 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?
Replies: 12
Views: 5929

Re: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?

I didn't have the heart to tell my father-in-law half his LP titles were available on CD.

Sometimes people dont want perfection, they just want music to sound like they remember it.
by Tom Dennehy
Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:56 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?
Replies: 12
Views: 5929

Re: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?

To answer an earlier question, I have only encountered this phenomenon on the album in question, and it only occurs in a < 30 second section of audio. There are two short bursts, then the sustained occurrence. If I can do so and not run afoul of attachment limits, I'll upload the full section for mo...
by Tom Dennehy
Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:51 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?
Replies: 12
Views: 5929

Re: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?

Pressing fault? I'm guessing my father-in-law bought it c. 1956. And, based on gnarly scratches in a couple other tracks, the album led something of a hard life. :-)
by Tom Dennehy
Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:27 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: Removing Surface Cruft in Software?
Replies: 12
Views: 5929

Removing Surface Cruft in Software?

I'm digitizing some of my father-in-law's old jazz LPs from the 50s. They clean up pretty well in most cases. On the current title. I've had to truncate a couple tracks where damage was too severe to correct. It's a shame, because it's a really good album (Anita O' Day, "This Is Anita"). Now I'm try...
by Tom Dennehy
Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:21 pm
Forum: Recording Techniques
Topic: 24 bits truncated to 16 bits...
Replies: 18
Views: 7460

Re: 24 bits truncated to 16 bits...

Or as FLAC (with dither turned off) if you want to some disk space. The quality of FLAC is the same as WAV, just smaller files. Disk space is essentially free, but there is the annoying migration problem when you find that a 1TB drive wasn't enough, then a 2TB drive wasn't enough, etc. But I still ...