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WAV in iTunes

post #1 of 14
8/18/09 at 4:43am
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I deleted some songs in WAV format from iTunes and when I added them again, they had no information at all.

Is there something wrong with what I am doing? I ripped all of the songs using iTunes and now.........blah......damn iTunes.....
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post #2 of 14
8/18/09 at 11:02am
I don't think wav files support tags like other formats do, so you'll probably just need to enter the info manually.
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post #3 of 14
8/18/09 at 11:08am
Yup, wav has no tags, aiff is basically the same underlying format, but with tags added. So if you deleted it from itunes, you lost the data.
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post #4 of 14
8/18/09 at 12:34pm
Do not blame iTunes, when it was you who deleted the files.
Why not restore the iTunes Library to a stage before deleting the file? From your backup...

Simple said, the WAVE contained do not support metadata so iTunes store what you have added in its .xml file.
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post #5 of 14
8/18/09 at 12:55pm
try ripping your music at wmp11. They do have their album art, tags, and other information like you get from mp3 format
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post #6 of 14
8/18/09 at 1:00pm
It doesn't matter how you rip it, WAV doesn't have a way to store that information in the standard, for uncompressed audio with tags, use AIFF
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post #7 of 14
8/19/09 at 1:30am
yea... WAV doens't store the tags, sucks doesn't it?
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post #8 of 14
8/19/09 at 11:11pm
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Originally Posted by Young Spade View Post
yea... WAV doens't store the tags, sucks doesn't it?
very much so....
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post #9 of 14
8/19/09 at 11:15pm
So.....if I have everything ripped as WAV. can I convert to AIFF and have the tags?
or do I have to re-rip everything?
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post #10 of 14
8/19/09 at 11:22pm
You can convert
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post #11 of 14
8/20/09 at 12:29am
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Originally Posted by grawk View Post
You can convert
yes but, will my music then have the tags?
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post #12 of 14
8/20/09 at 1:22am
if you tag it it will, converting it won't generate the information out of nothing
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post #13 of 14
8/20/09 at 8:45pm
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Originally Posted by grawk View Post
if you tag it it will, converting it won't generate the information out of nothing
Im new to Itunes...when I convert I end up with a WAV copy and an AIFF copy, is there any way you know of to delete the WAV copies automatically?
I hate to sit here and delete 900 of them one at a time....
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post #14 of 14
8/20/09 at 9:21pm
Dumb question....I figured it out...
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