[Rebel908]

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.....

 

[Chrome Pumpkin]

I don't think wav files support tags like other formats do, so you'll probably just need to enter the info manually.

 

[grawk]

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.

 

[krmathis]

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.

 

[muscular]

try ripping your music at wmp11. They do have their album art, tags, and other information like you get from mp3 format

 

[grawk]

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

 

[Young Spade]

yea... WAV doens't store the tags, sucks doesn't it?

 

[podhead]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Young Spade /img/forum/go_quote.gif yea... WAV doens't store the tags, sucks doesn't it?

very much so....

 

[podhead]

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?

 

[grawk]

You can convert

 

[podhead]

Quote:

Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif You can convert

yes but, will my music then have the tags?

 

[grawk]

if you tag it it will, converting it won't generate the information out of nothing

 

[podhead]

Quote:

Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif 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....

 

[podhead]

Dumb question....I figured it out...