Wavelab Pro 12 not reading metadata from WAV files

WaveLab
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I’m cleaning up my music library, and I’m upconverting some files that are in 16/44.1 to 24/96. Would seem pointless, but my receivers seems to do a better job with 24/96 even if it’s originally a CD Rip at 16/44.1

That’s how I got to an album that I bought in WAV from Qobuz I think, so it came with its own metadata, but it’s plain old CD quality. Now, I have two projects setup, one of them adds metadata if it’s a CD rip to WAV that didn’t include it, and another project for most of them, which will convert anything I throw in it to FLAC 24/96 and is set to inherit the source metadata, with the Batch Metadata drop down menu in the Format tab set to Merge.

I have done dozens so far from MP3s, AACs and other FLACs. But this album in WAV just doesn’t pass the metadata. I triple checked that everything set the correct way, but MediaInfo keeps telling me that the resulting files have no metadata at all.

So is this by design? Wavelab Pro 12 doesn’t have the ability to read metadata from WAV files? Or is it a problem with this particular set of files?

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What kind of metadata are you referring to? Did you analyse the files using Mp3tag or BWF MetaEdit, for example?

Probably due to the the files themselves and the type of metadata.

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See also: Meta data not being written into wav files

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The metadata that contains name of the song, album, artists, etc. I use MediaInfo.

Well, MediaInfo tels me that the original WAV files do have metadata and plenty of it, since it’s not a rip from a CD, it’s an album I bought on Qobuz. I have several of those, except that usually I download them in several formats, and this one I only downloaded it in WAV.

My problem is not writing metadata to WAV files. It’s that Wavelab Pro 12 doesn’t pass it on to the converted FLAC files, which is set to do, and did successfully for dozens of albums. This one was the only one that was in WAV.

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WaveLab can write FLAC with metadata, but WaveLab does not convert metadata from the WAV format to FLAC.