Tom, Getting back to your question about different programs having difference levels of support for embedded metadata, though out of date, it'd be worth your while to go over this study: http://www.arsc-audio.org/pdf/ARSC_TC_MD_Study.pdf Jim On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ditto on the thanks to Dave Rice. I have learned quite a bit about this > topic today. I still won't use FLAC as my primary PCM-write format, but I > use it all over my house and studio as a backup and stream-access format. > > It's also worth noting, along the lines of what Paul Stamlber said, that > because FLAC files reduce the storage need per second of audio, it's a > great format for transmission and also for the new generation of portable > players such as by Sony, Pono and A&K. > > Given that no other major company except Apple seems to have patent-lawyer > issues with FLAC's open-source-ness, I will opine that this is a phantom > menace created by Apple to justify sticking with their proprietary lossless > format. If lossless downloads ever catch on mass-market with Amazon and > Google, it's more likely that Apple gadgets and computers will deal with > FLAC natively, and less likely that mass-market retailers will go to the > trouble of selling proprietary ALAC alongside open-source FLAC. For what > it's worth, on a modern (circa 2013) Windows 7 Lenovo workstation, ripping > a CD to FLAC using dBPowerAmp takes less than 1/4 the time of ripping the > same CD to ALAC in the latest iTunes for Windows. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard L. Hess" < > [log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 1:46 PM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] another file format question > > > > Hi, Tom, >> >> iZotope has an option to save all metadata (as apparently does FLAC (the >> container)). Otherwise, only metadata the program knows about is saved. >> >> Hi, Dave, >> >> One thing we have is the ability to embed MD5 checksums in WAV files with >> the custom-written software BWFMETAEDIT. However, I have found this >> software a bit problematic from time to time. It was sponsored by a US >> Federal Government initiative. >> >> Thanks for the further insight. This was the type of discussion I was >> hoping to engender when I posted the original message. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> On 2015-05-18 1:25 PM, Tom Fine wrote: >> >>> Hi Dave Rice, et al: >>> >>> Another question about the WAV file format. Why is dBPowerAmp's CD >>> ripper able to write tag metadata to WAV files, and all of my various >>> player software able to read them (Foobar2000, iTunes for Windows, >>> Logitech server and player software), but if I open the WAV file in Sony >>> Soundforge, do anything to it and then save it, the tag information is >>> gone? Also, someone I sent one of these WAV files claimed his software >>> -- either Protools or Logic -- said the file was "corrupted." So what's >>> going on there? Soundforge and Harrison Mixbus software for Windows have >>> no trouble opening these WAV files, but seem to discard the tag info or >>> at least don't save it when work has been done on the file. >>> >>> -- Tom Fine >>> >>> -- >> Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] >> Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 >> http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm >> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes. >> >> >>