Adding Wav files to library

billhahn · 5th August 2007, 23:47

Hi-

I have a large vinyl collection I am converting to WAV files using "LP Recorder 6.0.4" to record the files & "LP Ripper 6.3.0" to encode to WAV.

When I add one of these converted albums to the library, the Album Title appears correctly as does the Song Titles. But the Artist Panel lists the artist as "(no artist)".

How do I get the Artist's name to appear correctly?

Thanks-

Bill

flocksoft · 6th August 2007, 08:22

the .wav format doesn't support metadata, so no tags to write informations like artist, title, album, genre, year, etc.

so, all the informations have to be in the filename and Winamp extract them when the pattern is sometghing like this:
- artist\album\title
- artist - album\track number - artist - title
and other
an "exotic" filename pattern or a title like track15, likely gives no informations to Winamp

if you like the the lossless format (like .wav) you should use a moderm lossless format like flac (natively supported by Winamp Full version)
flac format supports metadata, so you can embed many informations in the audio files

5th August 2007, 23:47	#1
billhahn Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 25	Adding Wav files to library Hi- I have a large vinyl collection I am converting to WAV files using "LP Recorder 6.0.4" to record the files & "LP Ripper 6.3.0" to encode to WAV. When I add one of these converted albums to the library, the Album Title appears correctly as does the Song Titles. But the Artist Panel lists the artist as "(no artist)". How do I get the Artist's name to appear correctly? Thanks- Bill

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6th August 2007, 08:22	#2
flocksoft Major Dude Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Italy Posts: 695	the .wav format doesn't support metadata, so no tags to write informations like artist, title, album, genre, year, etc. so, all the informations have to be in the filename and Winamp extract them when the pattern is sometghing like this: - artist\album\title - artist - album\track number - artist - title and other an "exotic" filename pattern or a title like track15, likely gives no informations to Winamp if you like the the lossless format (like .wav) you should use a moderm lossless format like flac (natively supported by Winamp Full version) flac format supports metadata, so you can embed many informations in the audio files