Auto Tag wave files with no metadata
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Auto Tag wave files with no metadata
I'm new to MMW5... I'm trying to AutoTag wave files that have no metadata whatsoever. The files are all names with numeric numbers. They were created in 2008. When I select a group of files to Auto Tag, it says it is processing but it doesn't find any data. How does the fingerprinting work? Does it need a watermark in the audio or is it literally sampling the audio and matching it to a database? I apologize if these are dumb questions... thanks in advance for your help!
Re: Auto Tag wave files with no metadata
MM doesn't (cannot?) do much tagging of wave files.
It is something to do with a lack of agreed standardisation for tagging in wave files I think.
Try creating a flac copy of one of your wave tracks, and then try what you are attempting.
There is no loss of data from a wave => flac conversion.
See this thread for how_to_do.
I have not tried the MM5 fingerprinting facility, and the online help is almost silent on the topic.
I am confident that it would not require that the tracks contain a "fingerprint".
It would scan the track to calculate a fingerprint, and then look that up somewhere to obtain tags.
It is something to do with a lack of agreed standardisation for tagging in wave files I think.
Try creating a flac copy of one of your wave tracks, and then try what you are attempting.
There is no loss of data from a wave => flac conversion.
See this thread for how_to_do.
I have not tried the MM5 fingerprinting facility, and the online help is almost silent on the topic.
I am confident that it would not require that the tracks contain a "fingerprint".
It would scan the track to calculate a fingerprint, and then look that up somewhere to obtain tags.
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