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south_beaTunes

15 Sep, 2014 04:08 PM

Our CD collection is ripped to a hard drive in uncompressed .wav format.
Does beaTunes support .wav files?
Do all features work with .wav files?
Is there a published list of supported file types plus limitations of features?
Thanks for your help!

1. 1 Posted by south_beaTunes on 15 Sep, 2014 04:12 PM

   

   Forgot to mention my system:
   Intel Core i7 @ 3.2GHz
   12GB DDR3 RAM
   .wav music collection on 2TB HDD
   Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 15 Sep, 2014 04:19 PM

   

   Does beaTunes support .wav files?

   Yes, but with limits, see below.

   Do all features work with .wav files?

   No.

   Is there a published list of supported file types plus limitations of features?

   Not a detailed one.

   Let me state first of all, that beaTunes is capable of playing and analyzing .wav files.
   So far so good.

   What beaTunes cannot do, is to embed metadata like artist, album, etc. into .wav files. So while beaTunes may be able to display these things, it is not capable of writing such values to the files.

   This limitation does not apply to ".mp3", ".m4p", ".m4v", ".m4a", ".flac", ".wma", or ".ogg" files.

   When used in conjunction with iTunes, it is actually iTunes that embeds most metadata into the files (except for the fields that iTunes does not support). But I doubt that iTunes is capable of embedding metadata into .wav files.

   I hope this answers your question.

   -hendrik

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