I Need to Add Metadata to .aif

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I Need to Add Metadata to .aif

Hi everybody.

Here is my situation, I make sound FX and music cues for various trailer houses.

I am getting ready to send out a new volume of music and sound FX.

I need to make it so when my files are viewed in "preview mode" one can see metadata info: artist, album & time.

After googling and browsing endless forums, I keep reading that .aif files do not support metadata.
My question is, how did somebody do this then:

That is a screen shot of me viewing an .aif file in preview mode. I see metadata! Is there special software for this? I am at a loss.
Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Posted on Jul 30, 2014 9:40 AM

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Jul 30, 2014 9:57 AM in response to PonyVillalobos

FYI- this .aif was imported to my computer, I did not tag this in my iTunes

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turingtest2

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Jul 30, 2014 12:18 PM in response to PonyVillalobos

My personal experience is that .wav does not support tagging at all in any software that I've used, but .aif should. There are fewer properties that will be preserved in an .aif file than say .m4a or .mp3, but Album, Album Artist, Artist, Name, Track # should all be preserved. Try adding some data via iTunes, then deleting and reimporting the track.

What are you creating the original files with? That software may be able to write out the tag data as part of the export process.

tt2

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