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antonellocaroli
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File wav

Post by antonellocaroli »

wav files with Windows reads the album name
https://ibb.co/i17LQk

Instead the law muso the folder name
https://ibb.co/fxhWWQ
musoware
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Re: File wav

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I'm afraid Muso's tag support for wav files is sketchy, I use two tag libraries and they both seem to have problems reading certain tags from .wav files. I was aware that there was a problem reading track number and total tracks, but the inability to read the album tag as well is new knowledge - though interestingly for the limited wav files in my posession even iTunes doesn't seem to be able to read the same id3v2 tags - so there must be a fundamental issue here. If you could send me a .wav file that you have tagged I can see if its the same.

What is the reason for you using wav files rather than some other lossless format?
antonellocaroli
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Re: File wav

Post by antonellocaroli »

of course
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzYYq ... EZubzVJT3M

not only use wav files, my library is at 80% in flac ... but I have a few albums in wav and I do not much reconvert
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Re: File wav

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You are right, here are the tags for that file as shown by mp3tag and dbpoweramp:
mp3tag.PNG
dbpoweramp.PNG

But these are the only fields filled in on a Muso import:
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It defaults in the name of the folder for the album if it cannot read the album tag.

However as I noted befor iTunes seems to have the same problem with .wav files, here's what it showed when I importad that same file:
itunes.PNG
Uknown album, unknown artist.
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Re: File wav

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So after some googling it seems there is no standard on tagging with WAV files, the WAV format doesn't support it officially, but certain tools like mp3tag and dbpoweramp have come up with their own ways of storing tags. So, like iTunes isn't reading the tags because there is no standard, it seems both the tagging libraries I'm using are taking the same stance. I guess that may change when the standards are formalised, but until then there's not much I can do.
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