4 Sep
2023
4 Sep
'23
12:33 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
Can anyone suggest a program that can edit metadata in
24bit wav files.
It seems Picard treats these as faulty - all the music players have no problems.
I assume that 'metadata' refers to the header.
No idea if the problem is with Picard or the files, but I suspect
something along these lines:
- There are (at least) two formats known as .wav files: WAV and
WAVEX.
- The original WAV header format was badly designed and resulted in
lots of proprietary extensions and 'improvements'.
- Many years ago M$ tried to clean up the messs by creating the
WAVEX format.
- From then on, according to M$ standards, anything using more than
2 channels or 16 bits MUST use the WAVEX format.
I suspect you could have some 24-bit files using the WAV format which
are technically 'defect'. There is still software around creating those.
The way to find out is to look at an hex dump of the header. Maybe you
could post one - the first 256 bytes will do.
Ciao,
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FA