Wav file info editor?

[omgsolzar]

Hi, I use nero software to rip my cd's on to my computer and when i finish the song in audiosurf it says, for example:

Weezer - Automatic -- Unknown artist

Do wav files use Id3 tags? and if so which free id3 editors work with wav files, i tried to download a few and none worked with wav's. any help would be appreciated.

also, if this topic has already been discussed im sorry, but the search wouldnt let me search for wav, wave, or file info. too f'in short.

[Linkor]

To change the tags of a music clip I use my regular music player

http://www.foobar2000.org/

If you put a song into the library and select properties (using right mouse) you'll be able to change all that.

[Varsity]

Whyever would you use WAV? WMP can rip to MP3.

[omgsolzar]

I want cd quality music,wmp doesnt rip to the quality i want, and mainly wmp rips too slow for my tastes, i hate ripping at 8x when i can rip upwards of 40x. i will try foobar2000 out.

[omgsolzar]

Well foobar tells me its an unsupported format when i try to edit metadata. does anyone else have ideas?, the wav's are at 32bits 44100 2channel if that helps

[Alein]

I use mp3Tag Pro (http://www.maniactools.com/soft/mp3tag-pro/index.shtml). It supports tags in MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, WV, M4A, AAC, MPC files.

[igniteice]

I want cd quality music,wmp doesnt rip to the quality i want, and mainly wmp rips too slow for my tastes, i hate ripping at 8x when i can rip upwards of 40x. i will try foobar2000 out.

Windows Media Player? I can rip a full CD in less than a minute. I'm not sure why you would need to go faster. As for quality, you can set it to lossless WMA quality -- far superior than any WAV format, since WAV is uncompressed. In fact, if you really want CD quality music but compressed, go with FLAC. I honestly don't think you can tell the difference though between, say, 900 bitrate and 300 in WMA format.

[spyrochaete]

To actually answer the OP's question...

Tags are not a built-in function of WAV files. Apparently there are ways to add tags to WAV files but I don't know whether Audiosurf will support them, plus they often make the file unplayable because it breaks the file standard.

Might I suggest ripping to FLAC? It's a lossless codec which will preserve 100% of the sound just like WAV but is a smaller file format and supports tags. Audiosurf supports FLAC out of the box.

[xbool]

To actually answer the OP's question...

Tags are not a built-in function of WAV files. Apparently there are ways to add tags to WAV files but I don't know whether Audiosurf will support them, plus they often make the file unplayable because it breaks the file standard.

Might I suggest ripping to FLAC? It's a lossless codec which will preserve 100% of the sound just like WAV but is a smaller file format and supports tags. Audiosurf supports FLAC out of the box.

WAV is a type of RIFF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format) file which do supports meta tags. You can edit this tags with programs like MediaMonkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) and MetadataTouch (http://www.digitalconfidence.com/MetadataTouch.html). The latter also supports XMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform) metadata. These metadata formats do conform to the WAV standard, and any compatible player should not have problems with playing such files, even if the player does not recognizes the metadata.

[spyrochaete]

+rep to you, xbool. You're right and I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me.

[Zedo Mann]

Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/) is nice for editing the tags on files that will take tags though.