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?
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.
Like I said in earlier posts, a batch project to convert anything I throw in there to 24/96 FLAC with metadata set to inherit from the source file.
Do you mean that Wavelab shows somewhere the metadata (ID3 or whatever) from the source files? All I saw was the metadata tab where I can enter all the metadata I want, but not a way to copy and paste metadata except between fields in the metadata tab.
Yes in the Metadata Tab/Window
right click on text and select copy
ID3v1
Title: Happy again
Album: Album
Artist: artist
Year: 2025
Comment: kommentar
Genre: Instrumental
ID3v2
Title: Happy again
Album: album
Genre: genre
Lead performer: artist
Year: 2025
Track number: 1/1
Comments: This example generates ReplayGain
Software and settings used for encoding: WaveLab 8.0.0
REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK: 0.875365
REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN: -3.66 dB
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When I drag and drop any file that I know to have metadata onto the song list in the batch, the metadata doesn’t show anywhere. The only metadata I see in the metadata tab is the one I manually entered last time I saved the batch project.
MP3 and FLAC do not use the same metadata system, that’s why you can’t go from one to the other.
Ideally, WaveLab should be able to provide an automatic conversion system; this is not currently possible.
So I can right click on the metadata, choose select all, right click again, select copy. Then I open the converted file, but I see no way to paste the metadata. I can paste it on anything else, like Notepad, but not on the converted file. If I click on edit, I can enter the fields one by one, but that would take a bit too long.
