KVR Audio

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:41 am

I'm looking for a good free wav file metadata tagger in which I could tag my wav files with genre, bpm, rootkey etc. information. Is there any free option or it's better to choose a payware software for this? I'm open to any suggestions, thanks!

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:36 am

Which OS and DAW are you using?

I don't think you have many options for metadata in standard .WAV files, but you can store quite a bit in "Broadcast" .WAV files. If your DAW supports exporting those, you can put all sorts of info into them (including images, I believe). You can probably do that with any of the free .WAV editors out there, though your DAW might support some of that, too.

Steve

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:14 am

Any OS will do. I use FL Studio, Acid Music, Cubase LE and Ableton Live 8. But I don't think those DAW will ad metadate related to the genre of sounds in which the wav file can be categorized. Unless you can embed this kind of metadate in acid wavs?

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:27 am

you can use the excellent free audacity (it's under File->Edit Metadata..)

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:14 am

murnau wrote:you can use the excellent free audacity (it's under File->Edit Metadata..)

Good call, murnau. Audacity is a pretty good "DAW"/multi-track audio editor. I've had problems getting it to work with certain audio drivers, but if all you're looking to do is edit the metadata, that shouldn't matter.

Wavosaur is another good, free, 2-track audio editor, but I didn't see anything on its website about editing metadata. Still, it's a very easy to use standalone executable (no installation required), and you can know within 5 minutes if it'll do what you want.

Good luck!

Steve

dijo · Post by **dijo** » Mon May 12, 2014 4:55 am

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You should know that there are several ways to tag wav files. You can find info on that, and a list of programs (some are free) on this website - WAV & BWF Metadata Guide (http://wavmetadata.blogspot.com)

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Fri May 16, 2014 9:07 pm

Thanks! Useful site.

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:35 pm

I believe Studio One 2 Free .... You'd have to load your wav into it like a song or project .

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:35 pm

http://kid3.sourceforge.net

the best I've tried - especially for batch tagging

UnTonik · Post by **UnTonik** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:55 am

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I was looking for a software to change the root key in the bunch of samples according to the filename! This Freeware is genious! "Endless Wave" Check it out!
http://www.bjoernbojahr.de/index_studio ... pling.html (http://www.bjoernbojahr.de/index_studio_workshop_sampling.html)

banananut · Post by **banananut** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 8:14 am

I wonder if Winamp could do something similar as you can save meta data into an audio file? You can also save a preset of that meta data and load it into other files. Works for mp3... dunno about wav.

K-Bee · Post by **K-Bee** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:50 am

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

I used this for tagging 3500 audio cd's when ripping to a NAS drive. Despite the name, it can tag pretty much any audio format. And....it's free

Good free wav file metadata tagger?