Chris Hails, thanks for the sample recordings. You wrote,
>3. How can I electronically "annotate" files for cataloguing
>purposes ? When I using RavenLite I save files in =96 aif. format and
>a right click takes me to "file properties" where empty fields could
>be filled in to describe location, recording quality, weather etc
>etc =96 all those helpful descriptors that stayed with the file and
>could be used in an electronic cataloguing system. The .wav format
>does not allow this. What is the answer =96 save everything as .aif ?
>Is that something I may regret in future ? (If I stick
>with "Spectrogram" it will only work with .wav files) Or is there a
>good system I am not aware of for wav files ?
You have touched on a topic that is at the
leading edge of the development of field
recording technique. It's called "metadata."
Everybody realizes that they're going to have
oceans of files and they've got to carry at least
enough information to be able to find them and
hopefully full documentation.
I believe that the .wav file can carry an
unlimited amount of metadata. Buzzwords are
".bwv", the professional file format, and "iXML",
according to Sound Devices "the metadata language
gaining popularity with post production software,
including ProTools 7.2."
I'm eager to learn about these things and I hope someone here can teach.
-Dan Dugan
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