Peter, bearing in mind that you're adding the data in Audacity, editing
there, and probably sending mp3's to others, it might not really be a
problem.
You could always render a straight .wav, if you were nervous about it.
k
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
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> Thank, I didn't realise Audacity did:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata
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> However that page and the wikipedia page you referred to both come with
> warnings about other programs not supporting it. Eg "Although the RIFF
> specification requires that applications ignore chunks they do not
> recognize, some applications are confused by additional chunks."
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> I believe my M10 places track markers in the wav files using the same sor=
t
> of system, and because Audacity ignores them, I assumed it ignored all wa=
v
> metadata.
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> I do set the metadata fields in my Audacity projects, but I don't rewrite
> the original wav file so they only get embedded in what I export, which i=
s
> usually mp3 format anyway.
>
> Peter Shute
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> Actually, they do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata
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> Both Audacity and Goldwave support this (probably others, too), and
> provide
> ways to add it to the current wav file being worked on.
>
> Cheers,
> Ray
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Peter Shute <<mailto:
> pshute%40nuw.org.au>> wrote:
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> > I don't think wav files support metadata, at least not to any recognise=
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