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Title: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: Two Wire on March 13, 2005, 05:15:40 pm

After importing my audio files, only the mp3 tag information appears in MC. How do I get MC to read the tags in wave files. Is a plugin required for this.

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: KingSparta on March 13, 2005, 06:04:39 pm

I did not know you could save tags to wave files

at least i never seen tags in wave files

what makes you think you can save tags to wave files?

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: Myron on March 13, 2005, 06:23:28 pm

Quote from: Two Wire on March 13, 2005, 05:15:40 pm

After importing my audio files, only the mp3 tag information appears in MC. How do I get MC to read the tags in wave files. Is a plugin required for this.

If the tag info is in the WAV files, then I don't think MC can inport this info.  As far as I know there isn't really a standard for the method of storing this info in WAV files.

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: Myron on March 13, 2005, 06:26:25 pm

Quote from: KingSparta on March 13, 2005, 06:04:39 pm

I did not know you could save tags to wave files

at least i never seen tags in wave files

what makes you think you can save tags to wave files?

The WAV format does allow for this.  Musicmatch Jukebox is one program I know of that stores tag info in WAV files, incuding album art.

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: KingSparta on March 13, 2005, 06:39:00 pm

i think that is non standard, and may have problems with many players

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: Two Wire on March 14, 2005, 08:56:25 am

Thanks guys! Because of the low cost of hard drives today, I keep all of my music files in a wave format. (I use only mp3's on my I Pod). Musicmatch Jukebox (which I have used for years) allows storing tag information in wave files, including cover art.  Since I have thousand's of music files, it's going to be a major pain to make the switch. I thought perhaps wave files might be an issue, but I was hoping fo a easy way out. Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: JimH on March 14, 2005, 09:01:31 am

Quote from: Two Wire on March 14, 2005, 08:56:25 am

Thanks guys! Because of the low cost of hard drives today, I keep all of my music files in a wave format. (I use only mp3's on my I Pod). Musicmatch Jukebox (which I have used for years) allows storing tag information in wave files, including cover art.  Since I have thousand's of music files, it's going to be a major pain to make the switch. I thought perhaps wave files might be an issue, but I was hoping fo a easy way out. Any suggestions?

Why not do lossless audio?  It's half the size and more widely used.  APE, FLAC, WMA Lossless, Apple.

Title: Re: Trouble importing wave files
Post by: Myron on March 14, 2005, 11:26:17 am

Quote from: JimH on March 14, 2005, 09:01:31 am

Why not do lossless audio?  It's half the size and more widely used.  APE, FLAC, WMA Lossless, Apple.

This is fine for PC only applications, but if you're looking to follow the media player route, most players are rather limited in format support.  My Streamium only supports MP3 and WAV, for example.