No problem. There are too many micro-details missing to know what metadata fields your file is using (ID3v1, ID3v2, etc.) and what fields your Windows software is looking at but when it comes to metadata in WAV files, many consumer-level apps can’t display it.
Recent versions of macOS are better at displaying WAV file metadata compared to 5+ years ago. Not too long ago, macOS also could not display the album title in WAV file metadata and now it can. I don’t follow Windows.
On Mac I use this app as a 3rd party double check when needed. Maybe there is a Windows equivalent:
I have two questions about metadata. The first is what @JeeJee was running into. I correctly enter the album name in the ID3v2, and everything works perfectly for an mp3 export, where I can see all the metadata in Windows explorer, in media players, and in my dedicated metadata editing software. These are the settings I use:
But nothing from ID3v2 is applied to a wav file, so I’m assuming it’s the RIFF metadata that’s responsible for wav files (after adding that metadata it started populating my wav files). However, I don’t see anywhere to enter album name:
Everything I enter in RIFF correctly displays in Windows explorer, in media players, and in my dedicated metadata editing software.
My second question is, where is the main/global place to set the track or album genre? I think I found them, but it seems rather disconnected from where all the other metadata is entered:
Sorry. I don’t really know. In a previous post or thread it seemed that it was discovered that Windows Explorer and/or Media Player uses the RIFF area for WAV files.
I’m not a Windows user so I can’t really say more.
I basically only focus on the ID3v2 data population as I consider it most widely used.
Ah yes good point, I guess I was not being accurate. I’m newish to Wavelab and to all these metadata formats.
I have Windows 10 Explorer and Media Player, and dBpoweramp as my main ID-Tag editor. None of these recognize the ID3_v2 in a wav file. I saw the note for ID3_v1 that it only works for mp3 and sort of extrapolated that even though there’s no message for v2, the fact that none of these software (especially the ID tag editor) recognized ID3_v2 tags that must mean its not embedding into the wav file. But pulling the wav file into Wavelab I can see it the ID3_v2 is there.
So I guess my question is simply, how can I get the Album RIFF metadata entered, is that possible? And my second question from before about album/track genre, is my screenshot showing the only way to enter that information?
Instead of dBpoweramp, maybe try MP3tag or BWF MetaEdit? But yes Windows Explorer doesn’t recognise ID3 v2 in its columns for wav files even though the data may be present.
Ok so I guess the RIFF standard just didn’t include an Album tag, and hasn’t been updated and is just not widely used? I guess I’ll just keep that metadata template on anyways and not worry about the missing Album tag, instead I’ll focus on using ID3v2 as the primary metadata. Thanks.
For ID3v2, you can enter the desired genre in the place shown below.
I just tested it in some WAV files on Mac, using the Meta app and it showed up no problem. I entered “Genre Test” and that is what displayed in the app I use to double check metadata.
Ok awesome that worked! Window Explorer and dBpoweramp recognize Product as the album now, thanks! What a strange name for an “album” tag.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I want to keep auto variables in that metadata section, it’s just that it’s not clear why the @AlbumGenre@ and @CdTrackGenre@ are seemingly only defined in the pictures that I posted, which are quite removed from the other areas for filling in metadata like CD Text etc.
