Wil Hershberger wrote:
> I would have to say that having the data about the recording IN the metad=
ata
> of the file itself is very important. If the link is broken between the f=
ile
> and the xml file (or whatever external file) then all is lost. If all the
> data is in the metadata of the actual wav file then it can't get lost. Th=
ere
> should be a way to batch edit this metadata and have and external
> application that can read the same metadata into a database. Results in t=
he
> best of both worlds, all the data is safe in the wav file and there is an
> external database of all the data for quick searching.
This is what I want. I put out the bucks for Soundminer, but I'm still relu=
ctant to commit to it because though it -can- write data back to the file h=
eader, it doesn't do that automatically. Data which isn't part of the file =
will likely be lost after the recordist retires. In the file, it has a chan=
ce.
-Dan
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