Hi John,
But even if I open a WAV file on my Mac, and keep it in WAV format,
if I "save" that file then I still lose the date-time information.
I thought this happened on a PC too?
cheers,
Vicki
On 23/04/2010, at 12:25 PM, John Lundsten wrote:
> Hi Vicki
> Simple forget AIFF, Macs are set up by default to trash all the useful
> metadata contained in a Broadcast WAV. I don't have a Mac available
> right
> now to give precise info how to tame this Apple Corp abuse/
> nonsense/ BS, but
> for sure Macs can use wav files just fine, both plain ones or with
> the bext
> (BWF) extra goodies.
> IMO this is major Corporate BS, hubris & outrageous arrogance on
> Apples part
> to assume their late 20th century format has any relevance at all
> to anyone
> in the 21st Century.
> John L
>
> vickipowys" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] from metadata to archiving
>
>
> | Sorry to throw in a really dumb question, BUT
> |
> | If I make a recording on a flash-card recorder then it gets
> | automatically date and time stamped (always assuming that I have set
> | the time-date correctly in the reccorder).
> |
> | When I later process the recording (let's say I remove 5 minutes of
> | footsteps and preserve one minute of birdsong), then I am left with
> | an AIFF file on a Mac that has lost the date and time stamp.
> |
> | Are you proposing that the ideal way for archiving is to then re-
> | embed time, date and additional data that will be permanently tagged
> | to the sound file?
> |
> | For the moment I'm sticking with my manual database, thanks all the
> | same, and verbal announcements regarding species name, description,
> | behaviour, place, weather, etc.
> |
> | cheers,
> |
> | Vicki
> |
> |
> |
> | On 23/04/2010, at 9:04 AM, Rob Danielson wrote:
> |
> | > Hi John et al--
> | >
> | > In the model I'm suggesting, the database would create files with
> | > embedded metadata. Hopefully this feature can serve a very
> | > significant role in getting important data people want into the
> | > consolidation app; maybe Charles' ixml project can eventually
> aspire
> | > towards creating agreement about how to assign the chunks. Strong
> | > agreement is needed in the tag dept, or there's more trouble than
> | > return.
> | >
> | > snip...........
> |
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