Writing Metadata to WAV files Options

[Metalninja89]

Hey so I am kind of new to using lossless audio especially WAV, and I'm really organized with all my music files I always fix the metadata if it's off and I'll add artwork and lyrics but I cannot seem for the life of me to write that kind of data to WAV files. Is it even possible? I usually use mp3tag pro for mp3's and FLAC's and it works fine for that, can anyone help please?

[Prince Of All Sa...]

WAV files simply don't have the same tagging capabilities that other formats do. If you've got FLAC, you can always convert to WAV without losing any quality, though most of the tags will be lost.

This post has been edited by Prince Of All Saiyans: Feb 17 2012, 22:41

[john33]

It is possible to do this by following the rules regarding defining your own "chunks". However, the real problem is that nothing will read it! It will simply be ignored as unrecognised. There are various specialised standards around, particularly in relation to broadcasting, that define and use their own chunks, but they also provide the software to use them. Audition, for example will read and allow editing of the broadcasting "CART" chunks.

So, in all practical senses, I'm afraid it's a 'no go'.

[LordWarlock]

foobar supports this.

[pdq]

dBpoweramp can read and write wav tags.

[kwanbis]

I always fix the metadata if it's off and I'll add artwork and lyrics but I cannot seem for the life of me to write that kind of data to WAV files.

Sorry, why would you use WAV over FLAC? Is it because of some software/hardware requirement?

This post has been edited by kwanbis: Feb 18 2012, 15:57

[Metalninja89]

I always fix the metadata if it's off and I'll add artwork and lyrics but I cannot seem for the life of me to write that kind of data to WAV files.

Sorry, why would you use WAV over FLAC? Is it because of some software/hardware requirement?

Well maybe I can clarify this here, because I thought that even though both WAV and FLAC are considered to be lossless audio I thought that WAV was kind of like the best for lossless formats considering the bit rate is always a bit higher than FLAC files.

[saratoga]

Well maybe I can clarify this here, because I thought that even though both WAV and FLAC are considered to be lossless audio I thought that WAV was kind of like the best for lossless formats considering the bit rate is always a bit higher than FLAC files.

All lossless copies of something must be identical, therefore it is impossible for one to be "better".

Generally though lossless formats try to make the bitrate as low as possible, since that reduces the amount of disk space required to store the file.

[kwanbis]

Well maybe I can clarify this here, because I thought that even though both WAV and FLAC are considered to be lossless audio I thought that WAV was kind of like the best for lossless formats considering the bit rate is always a bit higher than FLAC files.

Lossless is lossless. So WAV is no better, sound wise, than FLAC. Think as FLAC as RAR/ZIP for audio. Use FLAC.

[Kohlrabi]

I thought that WAV was kind of like the best for lossless formats considering the bit rate is always a bit higher than FLAC files.

Bit rate is a measure of filesize per second of audio. Hence, for lossless encodes you'd want to choose the encoder producing encodes with the smallest bit rate. There is some correlation of increasing perceived audio quality with increasing bit rate for lossy encoding, when comparing encodes made by the same encoder. To use bit rate as quality metric across multiple lossy formats is invalid.

[trout]

[...] the bit rate is always a bit higher than FLAC files.

If you compress a WAV file with FLAC, the FLAC file can be decompressed back to a WAV file and the result will be 100% identical to the original. It is not just "perceptually" the same, but exactly bit-for-bit the same. Likewise, when you play a FLAC file, the decoded audio output is identical to that of the original WAV / PCM / CD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless