Yes, but . . . when is this going to be possible? The only thing solid on
the horizon seems to be BWAV (BWF), which I presume at least allows for a
reasonable amount of metadata.
Yes Audition has a few nice things on how metadata is setup.
But, it still does not support BWF Boadcast Wave.
What I want is to not only be able to complete the limited fields of
RIFF but I want to be able to type paragraphs, custom design fields,
and attach a photograph of the site within. Now that would give me a
good historical record.
Rich
--- In Lang Elliott <>
wrote:
> OK, yes, let's discuss this on the e-mail group.
>
> I will be heading out shortly, but I'll have more to say about
mTools as a
> database management system for Mac. And soon I'll receive a trial
copy of
> Soundminer and let everyone know what I think.
>
> I visited Doug a few weeks ago and was quite impressed with what he
could do
> from entirely within CoolEdit Pro (now owned by Adobe and called
Audition).
> He could add metadata using the RIFF field, he could search and
preview
> recordings, and open them instantly in CoolEdit. And he could use a
> spectrographic view rather than an oscillographic view, which PEAK
is
> confined to. I really liked Doug's setup and almost wish I had my
library on
> a PC. With CoolEdit (Audition), I think you would have a full and
useful
> editing and library management package for only a few hundred
dollars.
>
> Lang
>
> Lang, you wrote,
>
> >I have special sound effects management software called MTools
that allows
> >for a relational database using FileMaker Pro. And there's also a
> >fabulous-looking piece of software for Mac called Soundminer
> >(www.soundminer.com), which utilizes it's own wrapper and embeds
metadata of
> >all sorts. Of course, Soundminer files could not be edited in PEAK
or other
> >Mac sound editors without losing all the embedded metadata, and
this
> >presents a problem. It would be great to have a robust metadata
field that
> >survives editing, so that the source of an edited and shortened
recording
> >could always be simply ascertained.
> >
> >Do any of you have experience with these kinds of questions? Is
there a
> >solution for the Mac platform? If so, I would like to correspond
> >individually.
>
> I'd prefer discussion here on the list, I think this is of interest
> to everyone. I use FWB Catalog ToolKit 5 to catalog files that I
> archive to CD-ROM. It's fast, but the searching ignores the volume
> name, which is a problem because that may contain keywords that the
> file names don't, and it doesn't have any means for auditioning or
> audio thumbnails. It's advertised for cataloging multi-media files
> but it's really designed for images.
>
> I hate the idea of committing all the effort to building a database
> in some software that may go away. I just checked
http://www.fwb.com,
> and it's no longer listed as a product, so my misgivings are
> validated. I would much prefer a standardized metadata system that
> could be accessed by different software.
>
> -Dan Dugan
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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