Showing metadata in WAV files
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Showing metadata in WAV files
How can I get Windows to display the metadata I enter into .wav files?
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Showing metadata in WAV files
This is Windows-specific so I started a new topic in the Windows board for you.sh0gun wrote:How can I get Windows to display the metadata I enter into .wav files?
Assuming you are using the latest Audacity 2.0.6 from http://audacityteam.org/download/windows then the seven standard tags always listed in Audacity's Metadata Editor are exported in WAV files as both ID3 and LIST INFO tags. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata.
Windows reads the LIST INFO WAV tags, not ID3. If you are asking about showing the tags in columns in Windows Explorer, you can choose columns to display by right-clicking over a column. Not all tags may be supported in columns and this may vary with different versions of Windows (you did not say which version of Windows you have).
dBpoweramp has Windows shell integration for metadata tags so could be used to add any tags to Windows Explorer that may be missing. The application is free as long as you don't want to encode MP3 files after the trial period ends.
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Re: Showing metadata in WAV files
Is it possible to display non-standard characters?
If I enter umlauts, for example, Windows formats them to regular letters. If I enter Japanese characters, they're left blank.
If I enter umlauts, for example, Windows formats them to regular letters. If I enter Japanese characters, they're left blank.
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Showing metadata in WAV files
We can't see your computer and this is the Audacity Forum, not a Microsoft Forum. If you are not prepared to state your version of Audacity, version of Windows, what Region and Language format Windows is in, and exactly where you are looking in Windows for the metadata, then we can't answer your questions.sh0gun wrote:Is it possible to display non-standard characters?
If I enter umlauts, for example, Windows formats them to regular letters. If I enter Japanese characters, they're left blank.
However from personal experience dBPowerAmp (as one example) has full integration into the Windows shell and should ensure that Explorer and Windows Properties sheets (right-click over a file) will display metadata properly.
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