I pulled both those files up in a hex editor and the tags at the end are
notably different.
In particular the Audacity-saved one has added libsound to one of the tags
whereas as the WSJT-X one does not.
You might want to look there...
RRR
Mike W9MDB
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Bill Somerville <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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]>
> 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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