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by delange
Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:46 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: WAV and metadata
Replies: 7
Views: 1132

Re: WAV and metadata

I know about FLAC but for some of us it is not an option. In my case, WAV is the only high quality format that is supported by all my digital music players I use. I don’t want to have several libraries to manage; one is already time consuming enough. I have never seen the TRCK frame in the LIST chun...
by delange
Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:00 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: WAV and metadata
Replies: 7
Views: 1132

Re: WAV and metadata

These are the basic frames required to enable music management: IART (Artist) IGNR (Genre) INAM (Title) IPRD (Album) itrk (Track Number) The current Audacity beta version doesn’t support three of the five basic frames which make the current tagging mechanism pretty useless. Many readers rely on that...
by delange
Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:26 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: WAV and metadata
Replies: 7
Views: 1132

Re: WAV and metadata

So I downloaded Audacity 1.3.13 Beta and tried the metadata editor on WAV files. According to the help file and my tests, Audacity does not support Album Title, Trackno and Genre for WAV files. That is very strange because the LIST chunk has well defined frames for those: IGNR Genre IPRD Album itrk ...
by delange
Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:33 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: WAV and metadata
Replies: 7
Views: 1132

WAV and metadata

Hello,

Is there a way to configure Audacity so that it saves the metadata into the WAV file (by means of LIST chunk for example)?

Thank you.