Audacity Forum

I am not blaming audacity, or media monkey, or, now I can add FFmpeg to the list of links in the chain not to single out. It is clear to me that the metadata format is chaotic, and therefore unreliable, for the task of maintaining information through time. I don't expect that bringing up the issue h...

"Audacity has a more difficult challenge because the data is entered before you export and it doesn't know what format you will export to. ...I suppose Audacity could make a better metadata editor and it could ask what metadata format you want but there are already good metadata editors out there an...

I found that a track that i exported with some metadata fields filled, when brought back into audacity, did not show all of those fields. Please give step by step instructions for how to reproduce this problem. In particular, which file formats have the problem? step by step? take a track, export a...

yes, that is exactly the problem. too many standards, and then claims by one program that the other isn't following standards. I have previously seen the page that you referenced about how audacity handles metadata. as it states "By default, Metadata Tags Editor appears for each exported file after ...

win10, 2.4.2 I am fairly new to digitizing music. i just started using audacity about a month ago. I have been using Music Monkey to manage collection. I am starting to find out that keeping track of music information in metadata is unreliable. I fill out the metadata window in audacity, export to f...