Ok, here is the deal...
MediaMonkey is great and IMO one of its major kickass features is the complete (i mean with tags) support of so many formats.
While this is truth i do believe that MM lacks one important feature and this is the support of the Radio Industry's Traffic Data WAVE File Standard, also known as "CART chunk" (more details
here).
CART chunk is actually a header that can be inserted in any RIFF WAV file and it is very similar with ID3 tags. I have been looking around the net the last couple days and it seems relatively easy (programmatically) to access CART data writen in a wave file. This format is open and there are full specifications in the link above. There is also a CART chunk editor out there (from BSI) but it doesn't support batch editing or converting from CART to ID3.
This is a popular format inside the Radio industry and almost all Radio Broacasting software support it... but all this software are VERY expensive and none of them has the ability to organize a lot of files of different formats in such an easy way that MM does.
I am a member of the Radio Industry myself and i have to use CART chunk since its the only standard between Radio Broacasting software. In fact, some software support only wav files with CART chunk meaning that you have to do all the painfull job of tagging inside those programms which they SUCK when it comes to that.
It would be nice if MM had the ability to read & write CART chunk and be able to write the CART data in the format MM supports now (which is ID3 tag). If the write abbility is too hard it would be nice if MM could at least read the CART data, import it in to database and then use it for the creatio n of id tags.
Thanks in Advance
Ok, here is the deal...
MediaMonkey is great and IMO one of its major kickass features is the complete (i mean with tags) support of so many formats.
While this is truth i do believe that MM lacks one important feature and this is the support of the Radio Industry's Traffic Data WAVE File Standard, also known as "CART chunk" (more details [url=http://cartchunk.org:8080/index.html]here[/url]).
CART chunk is actually a header that can be inserted in any RIFF WAV file and it is very similar with ID3 tags. I have been looking around the net the last couple days and it seems relatively easy (programmatically) to access CART data writen in a wave file. This format is open and there are full specifications in the link above. There is also a CART chunk editor out there (from BSI) but it doesn't support batch editing or converting from CART to ID3.
This is a popular format inside the Radio industry and almost all Radio Broacasting software support it... but all this software are VERY expensive and none of them has the ability to organize a lot of files of different formats in such an easy way that MM does.
I am a member of the Radio Industry myself and i have to use CART chunk since its the only standard between Radio Broacasting software. In fact, some software support only wav files with CART chunk meaning that you have to do all the painfull job of tagging inside those programms which they SUCK when it comes to that.
It would be nice if MM had the ability to read & write CART chunk and be able to write the CART data in the format MM supports now (which is ID3 tag). If the write abbility is too hard it would be nice if MM could at least read the CART data, import it in to database and then use it for the creatio n of id tags.
Thanks in Advance
