At 3:31 PM +0000 5/13/10, Raimund wrote:
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> > Yes, this challenge concerns me. Obviously, if we encounter
>> fundamental discrepancies in the way basic metadata like
>> time-stamping is employed, it lowers the priority of using metadata
>> in any personal logging/database software that aiming for
>> universality. I suppose there could be an auxiliary conversion app to
>> change what one's recorder outputs to a "standard" we etsablish but
>> it would have to be free, cross-platform and easy for beginners to
>> use. How hard would it be, for example, to use BWAV editor to make
>> one of your recordings. Raimund, compatible with Reaper? (You don't
>> have to try, just curious about the degree of difficulty involved).
>> Rob D.
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>Hi Rob, I just installed an evaluation license of the REAPER
>software and looked at it's 'Source properties...' command. I now
>believe that the incompatibility of my recordings regarding the
>'bext' chunk is caused by its unusual location at the end of the
>file behind the 'data' chunk. I could change that, but unfortunately
>this would cause a lot of re-programming work that is usually also
>associated with some risk to introduce new bugs...
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>I believe that probably every other commercial field recorder places
>'bext' chunk before the data chunk, which should prevent such
>compatibility issues.
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>It should be possible to write a software that allows to edit and
>rearrange the individual chunks within a .wav file. I believe that
>the degree of difficulty involved in a such a software project would
>be mainly determined by the experience of the programmer with the
>.wav file format and the RIFF chunk concept. If he or she was
>already familiar with these things, then it should be quite easy and
>could probably be done within a few days.
>
>Regards,
>Raimund
Thanks for researching the particularities of Reaper and framing the
larger question, Raimund! Rob D.
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