tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/questions/5192-import-aiff-metadatabeaTunes: Discussion 2017-06-04T07:42:16Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425960962017-05-20T07:13:40Z2017-05-20T07:13:40ZImport AIFF metadata<div><p>Hey Ryan,</p>
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<p>I've been recording all my vinyl using Adobe Audition and saving to AIFF which support saving metadata.</p>
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<p>I have no idea how Adobe Audition saves metadata into AIFF and cannot comment on that. While AIFF is a great format for lossless audio, metadata support is a little shaky and not necessarily implemented in every player/software.</p>
<p>For AIFF support in beaTunes, please see <a href="http://help.beatunes.com/discussions/problems/45523-aif-mp3-and-m4a#comment_41161694">http://help.beatunes.com/discussions/problems/45523-aif-mp3-and-m4a...</a></p>
<p>If you are using an <em>iTunes-based</em> library with beaTunes (see <a href="http://blog.beatunes.com/2015/01/different-libraries-for-different-needs.html">http://blog.beatunes.com/2015/01/different-libraries-for-different-...</a> for details on different kinds of libs), beaTunes will read whatever iTunes was able to read from your files. If iTunes cannot read anything, beaTunes cannot see your metadata either.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425960962017-05-23T04:16:55Z2017-05-23T04:16:55ZImport AIFF metadata<div><p>Ok thanks .. I tried saving aiff files from Audacity and the files that it saves can be analysed and the tags are also visible.. Audition must save aiff files in a format not compatible with iTunes</p></div>ryantag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425960962017-05-23T07:07:17Z2017-05-24T06:59:04ZImport AIFF metadata<div><blockquote>
<p>Ok thanks .. I tried saving aiff files from Audacity and the files that it saves can be analysed and the tags are also visible.. Audition must save aiff files in a format not compatible with iTunes</p>
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<p>If you send me a sample song along with information about what you expect to happen, I'd be happy to take a look at it.</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425960962017-05-24T00:33:18Z2017-05-24T00:33:18ZImport AIFF metadata<div><p>I managed to figure it out (partially) by saving 16bit instead of 32 and PowerPC Byte order. But the tags aren't being read .. I've attached a snippet</p></div>ryantag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425960962017-05-24T09:26:20Z2017-05-24T09:26:20ZImport AIFF metadata<div><p>Hey Ryan,</p>
<p>thanks for that sample file. It looks like Adobe Audition stores the metadata in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform">XMP</a> tags.</p>
<p>To be honest, I haven't come across those before—seems to be an Adobe thing.</p>
<p>Anyhow. The format isn't terribly complicated. I wrote a quick & dirty <a href="https://www.beatunes.com/en/beatlet-getting-started.html">beaTlet</a> that can import the main fields (name, artist, album, genre, tracknumber). To install it, shut down beaTunes and place the file <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beatunes/beaTlet-samples/master/groovy/XMPImportAction.groovy">XMPImportAction.groovy</a> (the file must be named <code>XMPImportAction.groovy</code>!) into the plugins folder. <a href="http://help.beatunes.com/kb/plugins/how-to-install-a-plugin">This article</a> describes how that's done. Then start beaTunes and select some of those AIF files. Under the menu <code>File</code>, choose <code>Import XMP</code> and the beaTlet should import the main fields into beaTunes. If you are using an iTunes-based library, chances are, that the values are also popping up in iTunes.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/425960962017-06-03T23:21:08Z2017-06-03T23:21:08ZImport AIFF metadata<div><p>Thanks man .. awesome!</p></div>ryan