I am new to Audacity (yesterday) but have been recording vinyl to computer for several decades; never thought much about info associated with my WAV files, but now have amassed a fairly large library and this metadata could be very useful to me.
My previous research leads me to believe that a plain vanilla WAV file is mostly (audio) data and very little else (sans metadata); The Broadcast WAV file format (BWAV) metadata is mainly reproduction information useful to broadcasters and other audio professionals. I am interested in the type of metadata that in the MP3 file format is called “tags”.
My specific question is this (I’ll try to be succinct, but no promises): Windows 10 (my current OS) will optimize folders in File Explorer as music folders and then allow file properties to be associated with the files contained therein. Information contained in columns that look just like the tags in MP3 files and other music file formats. Am I correct in thinking that the file properties that I can create there for my WAV files (in the file structure of my W10 computer) is limited to my computer only? That is, not portable?
Some specific info: OS - Windows 10 home (up-to-date); have been using for years as my audio processing/fixing/recording interface - Diamond Cut Audio Restoration Tool (10).
I just downloaded Audacity because I read that it had functions to access the associated file properties of WAV files store on my W10 OS. (And in fact it does, as several trials on my system prove out.)
DC ART creates playlists in an xml file format and I had begun editing that to include all the tag information I would like associated with my library, but I do not believe the information I create there can be imported into the associated WAV file properties on my hard drive, which I’d then hoped to use to convert those files to MP3 with the associated tag information.
I apologize for the long forum entry, and I hope I explained what I’m hoping to do in enough detail not to be booted off the forum.
Vince