Re: [Audacity-devel] MP3 tagging does not work correctly in German version

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Martyn Shaw <mar...@go...> 
| Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:50:26 +0000
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] MP3 tagging does not work correctly in German version
> >>> I have tested only in German and FLAC is OK. WAV is not quite right - I
> >>> filled in all seven default fields in the Metadata Editor and exported the
> >>> WAV, but when I reimport the WAV into Audacity the following fields are 
> >>> blank:
> >>>
> >>> "Titel der CD"
> >>> "Jahr"
> >>> "Bemerkungen"
> 
> This is not unique to the German language version.  And it's not a 
> bug, as such.  From my reading, wav files do not support ID3 tags. 
> They do have some Info tags and I believe that between ExportPCM and 
> sndfile the best mapping has been done to turn MP3-type info into 
> wav-type info.  Artist, Title, Year and Comments get written, as do 
> Copyright and Software.

Are we then listing Album Title, Track number and Genre in the Editor as
they are there for the other formats, but then deliberately (or only
accidentally) suppressing them for WAV? I can't find any concrete
definition of what should be in WAV metadata but if I look at say BWF it
seems to depend on what fields the applications that support the format
have decided to include.

Even so, might some people find all seven fields useful even if only
Audacity can read them? Or wouldn't it be better not to present 
all the fields if we can't fill them?   


Gale