Foobar2000: Can you choose how to display WAV files?

[1975DCS]

Hi,

I know WAV files don't have TAG's and Foobar2000 displays the full name (without extension) of WAV files in the title section (like iTunes does). But is there some sort of command like this: "%artist% - %title%", like you see with mp3tag. So that "madonna - who's that girl" ends up as artist "madonna" and title "who's that girl"?

Anyone found out?

 

[SirDrexl]

I don't think WAV files support that kind of data. Have you considered using FLAC or some other lossless compression codec? I mean, is there a reason they have to remain WAV files?

If you change your mind, it's pretty easy to convert back to WAV.

 

[J.Pocalypse]

I'm no expert, but, I don't think .WAV files have any kind of "metadata" like .FLAC kinda does, and .MP3 does for sure. So, there's no information to show in the "Artist" and "Song title" area's that we're use to.

Regarding the previous post, when I rip my CDs with EAC, I have the option to rip "compressed"(.flac) and "uncompressed"(.wav), and each file size is different. If for example the song rips uncompressed at say, 45MB, in .flac, it'd be around 32MB give or take. So, "converting back to WAV", I don't see really being an option. If I'm wrong in this, please, school me.

 

[SirDrexl]

I don't know if you can do it with EAC, but you can convert back to WAV using the FLAC command line, or to make it easier, something like FLACdrop (which is just a GUI for the command line). When dropping either a WAV or FLAC file into FLACdrop, it converts it back to the other format. There's no quality loss either way; it's just repackaging it, so to speak.

 

[joe_cool]

You can create a .cue file and specify the tags for referenced .wav files.

 

[1975DCS]

Hi folks,

At first I had them in WAV, than in FLAC for a couple of years. At this moment I have them in ALAC because iPod was the only player with a 160GB HDD...

But I don't use that to much... And with iTunes I do get some microseconds of freezing, especially when browsing the internet. The same I had with FLAC on WMP...

The main pluspoint for WAV is that every device on the world can play WAV files and also editing is much more common in WAV...

I also hear a small difference between FLAC on Foobar and ALAC on iTunes in favour of FLAC...

Greetz!