Artist is Listed as Director in WAV files Per MediaInfo

[NY2LA]

I am using the Metadata Editor to embed text based data in WAV files in the RIFF List Info format. I understand Audacity only supports a subset of the List Info tags, as explained to me in the Converting Dual Mono to Mono thread that I started on the Audacity 1.2.x forum.

Also, I read http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata .

When I open the WAV files with MediaInfo, the Artist Name appears as Director. Can you explain this? Is that supposed to happen?

Or is that something I need to ask MediaInfo about?

[Gale Andrews]

Hi,

You need to ask MediaInfo . The LIST INFO specification says the tag name is "Artist". Audacity just writes the "IART" tag ID and the data for the tag, It's up to the application what name it ascribes to the tag.



Gale

[NY2LA]

Thanks for the link to the List Info specification. I've been looking for a list of RIFF Info tags like the one on that web page.

Perhaps the tag name "Director" instead of "Artist" makes sense for MediaInfo, considering MediaInfo is often used to look at video files. That didn't occur to me at first.