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Re: Cataloging Sounds

Subject: Re: Cataloging Sounds
From: "Emanuele" lamacchiacosta
Date: Fri Nov 5, 2010 9:12 am ((PDT))
>
> On the soundminer site, they strongly suggest to get a text editor, Text
> Wrangler I understand why, SM only accepts a specific TXT. Wave Agent 
> is doing
> what it is suppose to, play but you don't have access to the 
> Description Field.
> You can use the Notes field (here) and then copy it to Description in SM,
> another turnaround. I discovered RNAME.
>
Well done.
I'm using RNAME as well and is brilliant.
Try also Media Rage.

http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html

> for batch renaming. Simple. I also
> needed some kind of Interleaver because if the soundfiles are Multiple 
> Mono
> Files without the .L .R setting, SM does not recognise them as being a 
> stereo
> file. In SM, You have to write every soundfile with the .L .R, it can 
> become
> long. Once recognise as a stereo or multiple track sound, SM can easily
> Interleave in batch. I am still looking for something to batch link 
> the files
> together without going through that process. As an alternative to SM I 
> tried
> BWF MetaEdit, free and MAC and PC. It is working but has few bugs, 
> nothing
> automatic, nothing batch, no player but a plain editable list, simple.
>
BWF Metaedit can do batch.
Once you change a field value in a file you can right-click on the field 
and choose "Fill all open files with this value".












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