Tim Canfer

I am struggling to find a way to read existing metadata in .wav files - I need to be able to read genre and comments for a new project involving my students creating samples, then including descriptive metadata that I am hoping to be able to read in a max patch. Any ideas?

I am aware that the Max metadata is stored in max (that is, not added to the files), but cannot get into the editor for the life of me - the documentation says "The Edit Metadata button in the File Browser toolbar will be enabled." but I cannot find the damn thing anywhere! Could this be because I am using a trial version? (Waiting for my old serial no to be sent to me...)

reading-stored-metadata-in-wav-files-query

with the jit.qt.movie object you can retrieve some of this metadata, check the helpfile, in the "track support" tab. Maybe it can help, not sure it can retrieve comments...

Thanks KarrrLo, that is appreciated, I will try that out.

Only ID3 tags unfortunately, so it looks like it is limited to mp3s. I was hoping to use .wav files to keep it simple and best quality.

Thanks again - any other help appreciated.

reading stored metadata in .wav files query