id3-style tags on Wav?

[Nick Thieberger]

Alex,

All audio files in PARADISEC are in BWF (that Bartek referred to), the
European standard for archived audio files. Specified bits of metadata
from the catalog get exported into a small xml file that is placed
into the wrapper of the audio file and then 'sealed' in an automated
process. I think there are various software tools will read and write
BWF headers (BWF MetaEdit is free). You can choose what goes into the
header, but it is limited in length (there are specifications for what
it can contain). As you say, the advantage is that, should files
become orphaned from the catalog, they still have identifying
information embedded in them.

Nick



On 24 November 2010 19:05, Steven Bird <stevenbird1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 November 2010 12:55, Alex Francois <Alexandre.Francois at vjf.cnrs.fr> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to know if it is technically possible to incorporate some
>> metadata (at least the most basic info: Performer name, Title, Date,
>> Village, Language…) within WAV files.
>
> By the way, an early audio transcription tool from someone in SIL
> stored time-aligned annotations inside WAV files.  The argument he
> made for this was that it would be impossible for the transcription to
> be separated from the audio.  I guess it used "Associated Data List
> Chunk", cf http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/wavefiles.html
>
> -Steven Bird
>