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RE: Using soundfile resource forks

Subject: RE: Using soundfile resource forks
From: Paul Isaacs <>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:14:04 +0100
Portadrive writes metadata in the broadcast wav header and this can be read
by many pro software applications such as cool edit pro, protools, nuendo
etc etc.

The types of metadata include:-
date
time
notes (50 characters)
timecode, userbits
12-character name
take number

Paul, HHB


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Danielson 
Sent: 28 March 2004 20:09
To: 
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Using soundfile resource forks


At 2:58 PM -0500 3/27/04, Lang Elliott wrote:
>I'll look into this Rob.
>
>I think the best solution may be on the horizon and will accompany the
>adoption of Broadcast Wave as an audio standard across the board. I know
>that the PEAK development crew has received many requests for BWAV support
>along with the BWAV metadata field referred to as BEXT. ProTools already
>handles BWAV and reads the metadata.
>
>I have many files where I've put basic informatin in the Mac Finder's
>"comment field". This works fairly well for OS 9, but I've found the
comment
>field in OS X to be very unstable. For instance, if I save files to CD-ROM=
,
>or DVD-ROM from my OS 10.2.8 eMac, the OSX comments are lost (while the
>Classic comments remain with the files). Doesn't make very good sense, huh=
?
>
>Lang
>

I'm not hopeful that commercial products will provide a solution
because they usually sell dependency on their software. The ability
for any user to be able to access data embedded into a soundfile
regardless of platform/system/app is what I find most interesting.
Don't you think SDII, BEXT, ID3 tags on MP3's, all such formats/forks
should be doable? Rob D.

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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
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