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Date: Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:53 am ((PDT))
Fascinating. I was under the impression that Soundminer edited the file
header so that the new metadata was part of the file. That is not good. So,
if I am understanding you, the added metadata resides outside the wav file
somewhere (XMP or something)?
Thanks,
Wil Hershberger
<http://www.natureimagesandsounds.com/> Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
Hedgesville, WV
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From:
On Behalf Of Dan Dugan
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:42 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] from metadata to archiving
Wil Hershberger wrote:
> I would have to say that having the data about the recording IN the
metadata
> of the file itself is very important. If the link is broken between the
file
> 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.
There
> 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
the
> 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
reluctant to commit to it because though it -can- write data back to the
file header, 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
chance.
-Dan
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