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track length info
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:12 pm
by monkE60
can anyone tell me how to include length of track info when exporting WAV file to WMP?
Re: track length info
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:39 am
by kozikowski
can anyone tell me how to include length of track info when exporting WAV file to WMP?
I think you must have left words out of your post. Doesn't Windows Media know the length of your show?
Koz
Re: track length info
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:26 am
by monkE60
i should have gone into more detail, sorry. newbie with audacity. i recorded cassette tape to audacity, separated the tracks, exported the resulting files (12 tracks-12 files) in WAV format for play on Windows Media Player. did not use metadata dialog ( no length of track input available anyway). information such as artist, title, etc. applied in WMP after export from audacity. i would think that track length would be applied automatically but apparently not. any thoughts-anybody?
Re: track length info
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:52 pm
by monkE60
i've found my own answer. DO NOT EXPORT FILES AS WAV!!! WAV does not support metadata editing. i re-exported as mp3 and now everything works and looks as it should. mp3 is somewhat lossy but is fine for WMP listening.
Re: track length info
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:14 pm
by steve
Windows Media Player has rather a lot of limitations (quite surprising considering it's enormous size). One such limitation is that it does not support FLAC files, which is a shame as FLAC is a lossless compressed format (sound quality is not compromised, but files are reduced in size by around 50%) AND it supports tagging.
WinAmp and Foobar 2000 both support FLAC files. They are both excellent, well featured, free audio players (WinAmp also supports Video playback, though it is not my favourite video player).
Re: track length info
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:55 pm
by waxcylinder
monkE60 wrote:i've found my own answer. DO NOT EXPORT FILES AS WAV!!! WAV does not support metadata editing. i re-exported as mp3 and now everything works and looks as it should. mp3 is somewhat lossy but is fine for WMP listening.
If you export MP3 at 320kbps bitrate then you are extremely unlikely to be able to hear the differebce between that and WAV - unless you have "golden ears" abd are listing on good quality equipment. Evn at 256 bitrate you should be ok. Below that some folks can begin to detect the difference quite readily.
WC