WAV format redesign enquiry

[JohanJooste]

Morning, through research and testing I've found that the WAV format / carrier type does not have/support
the same tags / metadata structure as MP3 or AAC format's for instance.

Please can anyone advise if the WAV format / carrier can be redesigned to support tags, matedata, albumart
within the files as is the case with MP3 and AAC.

This would really be a bonus as our library consists of about 21000 files imported via iTunes originally in WAV
format.

Thank you
Johan Jooste

[rovingcowboy]

Wav format is very limited on tags mainly because its analog but monkey does keep all information for wav just like mp3's only it is kept in the library database.

[JohanJooste]

Lekker tx we got that sorted - a bit of manual editing and the db is up to date - thank you for the assistance thusfar.

[Lowlander]

WAV lacks a tagging standard and thus has poor tagging support. However there are lossless alternatives like FLAC and WMA Lossless that do have strong tagging support.

What MediaMonkey supports: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... erties/4.0

[JohanJooste]

Tx for the reply Lowlander - could you advise/comment on the sound quality comparing FLAC/WMA and WAV ?
As an audiophile we prefer the best lossless uncompressed format available to us and being in SA we do not
have access to HD tracks like you guys might. I do not want to redo the complete 21000+ track library if the sound
quality is poor.

Thanks in advance

[Lowlander]

Note WMA is not correct you need to use WMA Lossless. Sound quality on all is the same as they all are a lossless version of the original. WAV is uncompressed and lacks tagging support. FLAC can be compressed (like a ZIP file so no data is actually lost and still remains lossless) and has good tagging support, it is the format I chose. I'm not familiar with WMA Lossless.