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Hi,
happy to be part of this forum, I read it almost everyday but this is the first time I post as I have a silly simple question.
The last couple of years I have managed to sell some tracks as a ghost producer, not too much but lately I organize it better as it would be a dream if I could live from that. Well I kindly like to ask what kind of metadata does those three DAW (Pro Tools, Sonar and Ableton) extract by default on wav and bwf.
It matters to me because as a ghost producer I do not want to deliver a track to a client that metadata includes me as a composer i.e. . As far as I have read WAVS do not have metadata by default. Broadcast wavs are more flexible. In Pro Tools 12 looking my audio files at its workspace window it does not add by default metadata that could show who is the author or stuff like that. I also cannot find any related metadata to my exports from Sonar. (I use Sonar to compose and Pro Tools to mix and master). Also the last days I am testing the trial of Ableton Live 10 and I am really excited with the workflow for EDM based tracks so I believe this is the gift that Santa Claus will bring me in for new year's eve. :) :)
So I'd like to ask if I am right to what I wrote. That wavs and bwfs does not have by default metadata that automatically take from my DAW personal accounts. Also if it is the same for Ableton Live.
I know that in mp3 format I could easily see or add metadata info so I could leave artist field and other related fields blank. Forgive me for my english.
Thanks in advance.

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There usually is a metadata setting either for project on some daws or in setting like preferences. If that is blank, there is nothing to write, kind of.

Some daws have a checkbox if to use broadcast waves or not as well.

I use a free player - foobar2000 - that show both metadata and other specifics about files. You can check there. There is also an option to remove metadata already there, which I use a lot - since one hardware media player gets the creeps when every ripped cd track is called CD Track 1, CD Track 2 etc. When metadata is removed it goes by filename.

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Ableton Live has no metadata in the WAV files (doesn't create nor read), and it doesn't support BWF.

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