Hi Mike,
the WAV file format is a royal mess. Those TAG fields you cite are ID3
fields and WAV format does not support ID3 at, officially. It is a tag
format for MP3 files. Some tools do write ID3 tags to WAV files but they
do it by writing it into the sample data. We don't want that as it is
corruption of the audio stream.
There is a metadata format for WAV files named LIST-INFO that is
supposedly supported and it does work OK on Mac and Linux but Microsoft
who invented it do not support it. I am using LIST-INFO which has a
whole bunch of pre-defined tags listed here:
http://bwfmetaedit.sourceforge.net/listinfo.html
There is also BWF which is a Standard meant to clear up this mess which
I have included support for but it currently is not being written to the
WAV files (the 'bext' or Broadcast Extension chunk) since that too is
not supported by Microsoft.
Anyway, as I said it is not the tag metadata that is causing the
problem, I tried a file with no tag metadata at all an it is not
readable by WMP so there is a problem elsewhere. Looking into it right
now...
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 19/01/2016 18:29, Michael Black wrote:
Why not abuse the already-existing fields?
e.g.
Artist = call sign
Track Title = freq, dxcall, dxgrid
Album Title = WSJT-X version
Genre = mode
Or something like that.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Bill Somerville
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 19/01/2016 14:38, Michael Black wrote:
> I think the recent mods to WAV files have broken being able to play
> them in Window 7/10.
> Neither recognizes them as WAV files any more and don't show
bitrate,
> length, or anything in the details.
Hi Mike,
ouch, I sort of expected something like this as Windows is
appalling on
WAV file metadata which is a PITA considering WAV is a Microsoft
format :(
Are you saying Windows File Explorer is seeing the files
differently or
are you saying that a media player is not recognizing them. If the
latter which media player?
Can you check if Audacity can still recognize them and play them.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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