Changing meta data on wav files.

[Damascushead]

I have some music that I have recorded that are in 16 bit 44.1khz format and I need to add track ordering, artist info, album title. etc. I downloaded EasyTag however it does not support (or even recognize any wav files.)

I know some might say I should just convert to ogg, but in order to collaborate with others I need to remain in wav format. (Unfortunately ProTools on my windows machine does not allow this information to be set upon exporting.)

Is there some sort of software in the repository that will let me do this, so that when viewed on other systems it will read the titles, artist, etc? I really hope so.

Any suggestions would be great.

Peace and Music

[ron999]

Any suggestions would be great.

Hi
I don't think that wav files support metadata.
That's probably why EasyTag doesn't recognize them.

[mc4man]

Hi
I don't think that wav files support metadata.
That's probably why EasyTag doesn't recognize them.

You can though not sure of a linux native solution (& it can be a bit sketchy

Every once & a while I use dBpoweramp running in wine because it's quite a remarkable piece of software (one easy way to produce almost any test audio file

Anyway it will tag .wav - see screen, though I've never looked at if/how it could edit those tags though probably it can

to see (21 day trial that lasts quite a bit longer in wine
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper.htm *also converts file to file
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dbpoweramp-dsp.htm

[Damascushead]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I might try dBPoweramp. What I am really trying to do is avoid using Nero or Toast or some other overly priced software, which I know will do the job.

Thank you. I will give her a shot.

[shantiq]

Anyway it will tag .wav - see screen, though I've never looked at if/how it could edit those tags though probably it can

did u achieve this through Wine mc?

the cdripper does not seem to see the files in the drive on my system
i have created a drive called R: in winecfg and pointed it at cdrom
but still no cigar

PS dbpoweramp is a mighty thing of beauty the converters are awesome

[mc4man]

did u achieve this through Wine mc?

the cdripper does not seem to see the files in the drive on my system
i have created a drive called R: in winecfg and pointed it at cdrom
but still no cigar

PS dbpoweramp is a mighty thing of beauty the converters are awesome

That was from a conversion

As far as audio cd's, saw same thing

Took a bit of doing but got it going, can post up tonight how to do so, (maybe 11 pm or so - 4-5 am for you

Basically had to add a static mount point in /media, add the drive to fstab, configure wine to see that mountpoint as a cd drive, then all good

(fstab deal here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744494

[shantiq]

thanx yes will appreciate that

this is what i get from

sudo lshw -C disk

*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD_RW ND-3550A
vendor: _NEC
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.52
serial: [
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=ready

[mc4man]

thanx yes will appreciate that

this is what i get from

open a terminal

sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom0

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add a new line at the bottom, save & close

/dev/sr0   /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660  user,noauto,exec   0 0

Then do a full restart

Open winecfg, click on drives
Click on "add", the pop up will likely show D, click Ok
While D is still highlighted in the drive box, fill in path in the "Path" box

/media/cdrom0/

Again select D & click on "Show Advanced", in the "Type" dropdown select "CD-ROM"
Finally click on Apply, close winecfg

Insert an audio cd, open dB & see - if you wish, open winecfg - it should show similar to screen above

If a go the best choice here for lookup in trial version is 'freedb', click on the meta icon, in the dropdown

[shantiq]

thanx for this

all goes swimmingly up to

Again select D & click on "Show Advanced", in the "Type" dropdown select "CD-ROM"

when it does not show info in the last two boxes [label and serial] they are greyed out

Wine configuration_003.png

and therefore does not see tracks in DB

Might be my version of Wine 1.3.28

[Damascushead]

THX

I previously uninstalled wine for security purposes, but am willing to reinstall to get this done.

And now shantiq I will know how to get wine to recognize my drive.

Take it easy