[Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

[Tim Chevalier]

On 8/19/08, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+cl at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Tim Chevalier wrote:
>
>  > The trouble is that .wav files don't have metadata (ID3 tags) that
>  > specify artist, album and track names.
>
>
> WAV files can't have ID3 tags, but they most definitely can support
>  metadata including all the ones you mention and much more in an
>  LIST/INFO chunk.
>
>  libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile) supports TITLE,
>  COPYRIGHT, SOFTWARE, ARTIST, COMMENY, DATE, ALBUM and LICENSE
>  fields.
>

I stand corrected. However, some CD ripping programs don't fill in the
metadata when creating WAV files.

Cheers,
Tim

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