Don’t trust the Windows metadata display.
LOL. This is what I’ve been trying to say from the start 
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I’m just trying to follow the format Microsoft created for .wav files. I know it might be different for a compressed file type. When the .wav file plays in Windows Media Player it cycles displaying the song title, artist and album name. Attached is the file info for QOTST to illistrate. Every cd I’ve ever seen follows this format. Although lately, I’m seeing cds with no file data which I assume means it was not mastered by an old guy like me.
Bad idea. The RIFF format was create in 1991, when standards were much different and online music did not exist. Use ID3v2 for something more reliable today.
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I don’t know to respond to that. Maybe you can provide information on how ID3v2 metadata can get written to a .wav file using WaveLab. That would be very helpful.
From my testing it appears WaveLab is pulling the .wav data from the RIFF tab and although I know .wav files can have ID3v2 metadata in custom RIFF chunks, I don’t don’t know of many (or any) players that will actually read and display it due to inconsistency. - Although I could be mistaken.
I’m trying to master to CDs so compressed ID3v2 files are not what I’m concerned about.
I’m open to finding out about how I can utilize WaveLab to get additional metadata on a .wav file and have it display on all players.
I understand PMC audio data is contained in a .wav file. I guess I’ll do some testing in a few different audio management applications and datamap what additional metadata is being displayed using the WaveLab ID3v2 tab.
Hi Mark, you may already know all this and I may be repeating what has already been said but… FYI you can already see what data is included in a PCM .wav file by looking in the Metadata tool window in Wavelab. You’ll see any ID3v2 data clearly listed. You can also verify the data in a metadata analysis application like Mp3tag (this analyses both MP3 and Wav files). The difficulty is how this data is recognised or shown in other applications. For example, some of this data will be available in VLC Media player but as far as I know none of it is readily seen for .wav files in Windows Explorer or Windows Media Player.
As you found out, Microsoft Windows does recognise the RIFF data in PCM .wav files. Therefore you could consider including both RIFF and ID3v2 data in the .wav file for maximum compatibility - however in general practice most PCM .wav files won’t include RIFF data.
See also: Meta data not being written into wav files
Do you mean software players / applications or are you talking about CD players?