On 04/09/2023 11:35, 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 use Kid3 to edit metadata of compressed formats (e.g. FLAC, mp3, opus)
and it seems to be able to write limited metadata to a wav file in what
it calls 'Tag 2' (ID3v2.3.0). According to Wikipedia [1] these are
stored in the extra chuncks. A quick test I did with players I usually
used showed that Audacious sees nothing while SMPlayer and VLC will pick
up some metadata when selecting the detailed info. Interestingly I was
able to add a 'cover' image which both SMPlayer and VLC showed in the
video area when playing the file.
I guess maybe for 'archival' purposes where one would add metadata a
format like FLAC which foresees metadata in the format [2] might be better?
Hope this helps
Lorenzo
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV?useskin=vector#Metadata
[2]
https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_format_overview.html