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I all, I have a Edirol R-09HR WAVE/MP3 recorder. I use it to digitalise my vinyl-albums.
When I try to fill in the tags (id3 I think) in Amarok this is what I get: "Sorry, the tag for XXXXXX.WAV could not be changed". So I've tried other programs like Rhythmbox, Easytag, Ex Falso, Cowbel, ... , everything I've found on synaptic, but nothing can change the tags. Some programs like cowbell and kid3-qt don't even recognize the files. I do have writing permissions on the files. I can change the tags on files that are recorded in mp3 format. I'm really stuck with this problem, the files are unasable for me without tags. Any idea what the problem is? |
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The WAV format doesn't support tags (metadata) at all. So I guess that explains
PS: You can use FLAC instead, a lossless audio codec that fully supports tags.
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Mark Kretschmann - Amarok Developer |
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that's a clear eplanation indeed
I know i can use flac, all my cd's are ripped like that. The problem is that with the vinyls I need studio-grade quality (Some of them will be used for cd-production). and i have very bad experience with recoding WAV to FLAC. clicking noise, digital noise, not audiophile differences, but speaker plopping cracks. At a friend pc with windows i've tried the wav file in iTunes and mediamonkey. both programs could tag the files. Probably they link the file to a other database, without puttng something in the actual file. That would be a solution for me. does something like that exist on Linux or Amarok? For me this is a big issue as i have around 1000 LP's to record. |
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See, as FLAC is a _lossless_ compression format, there cannot be any kind of quality loss. Not even a single bit - unless your encoder is broken or something. What you get out of it is exactly the same data that you put in.
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Mark Kretschmann - Amarok Developer |
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Can you recommend a program (with the right codex, depencies, and other things I don't understand that you need to convert wav to flac)? I've been using Sound Converter and I downloaded every codex I could find from ubuntu synaptic.
As I told you the result us horrific. Files that don't play, vinyl clicks that are peaked become digital noise, ... Not at all the same quality. PS. I record 24bit 96 kHz Already thanks |
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why not cut out the middle-man and just use flac itself? (there's also metaflac for tagging)
flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version 1.2.1 =============================================================================== Usage: Encoding: flac [ Decoding: flac -d [ Testing: flac -t [ Analyzing: flac -a [ general options: -v, --version Show the flac version number -h, --help Show this screen -H, --explain Show detailed explanation of usage and options -d, --decode Decode (the default behavior is to encode) -t, --test Same as -d except no decoded file is written -a, --analyze Same as -d except an analysis file is written -c, --stdout Write output to stdout -s, --silent Do not write runtime encode/decode statistics --totally-silent Do not print anything, including errors --no-utf8-convert Do not convert tags from local charset to UTF-8 -w, --warnings-as-errors Treat all warnings as errors -f, --force Force overwriting of output files -o, --output-name=FILENAME Force the output file name --output-prefix=STRING Prepend STRING to output names --delete-input-file Deletes after a successful encode/decode --keep-foreign-metadata Save/restore WAVE or AIFF non-audio chunks --skip={#|mm:ss.ss} Skip the given initial samples for each input --until={#|[+|-]mm:ss.ss} Stop at the given sample for each input file --ogg Use Ogg as transport layer --serial-number Serial number to use for the FLAC stream analysis options: --residual-text Include residual signal in text output --residual-gnuplot Generate gnuplot files of residual distribution decoding options: -F, --decode-through-errors Continue decoding through stream errors --cue=[#.#][-[#.#]] Set the beginning and ending cuepoints to decode encoding options: -V, --verify Verify a correct encoding --lax Allow encoder to generate non-Subset files --sector-align Align multiple files on sector boundaries --replay-gain Calculate ReplayGain & store in FLAC tags --cuesheet=FILENAME Import cuesheet and store in CUESHEET block --picture=SPECIFICATION Import picture and store in PICTURE block -T, --tag=FIELD=VALUE Add a FLAC tag; may appear multiple times --tag-from-file=FIELD=FILENAME Like --tag but gets value from file -S, --seekpoint={#|X|#x|#s} Add seek point(s) -P, --padding=# Write a PADDING block of length # -0, --compression-level-0, --fast Synonymous with -l 0 -b 1152 -r 3 -1, --compression-level-1 Synonymous with -l 0 -b 1152 -M -r 3 -2, --compression-level-2 Synonymous with -l 0 -b 1152 -m -r 3 -3, --compression-level-3 Synonymous with -l 6 -b 4096 -r 4 -4, --compression-level-4 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4096 -M -r 4 -5, --compression-level-5 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4096 -m -r 5 -6, --compression-level-6 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4096 -m -r 6 -7, --compression-level-7 Synonymous with -l 8 -b 4096 -m -e -r 6 -8, --compression-level-8, --best Synonymous with -l 12 -b 4096 -m -e -r 6 -b, --blocksize=# Specify blocksize in samples -m, --mid-side Try mid-side coding for each frame -M, --adaptive-mid-side Adaptive mid-side coding for all frames -e, --exhaustive-model-search Do exhaustive model search (expensive!) -A, --apodization="function" Window audio data with given the function -l, --max-lpc-order=# Max LPC order; 0 => only fixed predictors -p, --qlp-coeff-precision-search Exhaustively search LP coeff quantization -q, --qlp-coeff-precision=# Specify precision in bits -r, --rice-partition-order=[#,]# Set [min,]max residual partition order format options: --endian={big|little} Set byte order for samples --channels=# Number of channels --bps=# Number of bits per sample --sample-rate=# Sample rate in Hz --sign={signed|unsigned} Sign of samples --input-size=# Size of the raw input in bytes --force-aiff-format Force decoding to AIFF format --force-raw-format Treat input or output as raw samples negative options: --no-adaptive-mid-side --no-decode-through-errors --no-delete-input-file --no-keep-foreign-metadata --no-exhaustive-model-search --no-lax --no-mid-side --no-ogg --no-padding --no-qlp-coeff-prec-search --no-replay-gain --no-residual-gnuplot --no-residual-text --no-sector-align --no-seektable --no-silent --no-force --no-verify --no-warnings-as-errors |
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