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I am using Mac OS Catalina version 10.15.5 with Audacity version 2.4.1

When I export a file, it pops up a "Edit Metadata Tags" window. When I click at "Add" button, it dose add a line for me to type. But after I did that and export the file. The file does not contain the added line at all.

Please advise what I did wrong. Thank you in advance.

What Tag are you adding? What Value? How do you check that the Tag and Value are written to the exported file? What file format (MP3, AIF, WAV etc) are you exporting to.
-- Bill

On the additional line, I wrote copyright information.

I used two methods to check whether copyright information was written there:
1. look at the file property which contains everything I wrote but the copyright part.
2. I reopen the file by Audacity, and export it again, the Edit Matedata Tags window appears again, where everything I wrote was there but copyright.

It tells me, when I export the file, the file contains all the words I wrote on the Edit Metadata Tags but the wordings on the additional line.

Oh, it was MP3 format.

dway75035 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:31 pm

On the additional line, I wrote copyright information.

So, in the new line, do you write "Copyright" in the Tag column?
-- Bill

So, with Audacity 2.4.1 on macOS 10.14.5, I import an MP3 that has metadata tags. Here's what I get:
I edit the metadata to add a copyright line
I export this as MP3.

Then I close the project, create a new project, and import the MP3 I just exported, which should have the added tag.
This is what I see when I do Edit > Metadata So I don't understand why this doesn't work for you. Are you doing something different?

-- Bill

Yes, I did exactly the same thing but with a © symbol after Copyright. Would this © make the difference?

I tried again, it seems it does not like the symbol ©, without this symbol it works. And I even put @ instead of ©, it works as well. That tells me, it does work for some special characters but ©. I only tested with @, have no idea for others.

Clearly, the symbol © is an issue. But in general, when you have a statement of copyright, it would be written as "Copyright © Some company 2020", always with this symbol ©.

Another thing: when I use my Mac to check file property, everything appears but the added line does not. I don't know whether it is Mac issue or Audacity issue.

Testing with 2.4.1 on W10

1) I can use the © symbol in a custom metadata filed that I create in Edit > Metadata

2) And then when I export that metadata field is there and it contains the © copyright special symbol.

If I then
3) close Audacity
4) relaunch Audacity
5) Edit > Metadata
6) Observe: my custom field for Copyright is no longer there (expected behavior)
7) Import the file exported at step2
8) Edit >Metadata
9) Observe: the Copyright custom filed is there - and it contains the © copyright special symbol.

So work-for-me on W10.

Maybe then it is a Mac thing.

Peter.