Wave and wave chunk support

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Thu Sep 2 13:17:14 CEST 2004


On Saturday 28 August 2004 11:24, Alban Peignier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just integrated TagLib 1.2 to the import tool of RivenDell. That's
> a great API :)
> 
> I wonder why there isn't a TagLib::Wave::File class ? AudioProperties
> are easy to extract and the Wave format supports optionnal chuncks which
> can provide rich metadata (like BWF and Cart chuncks for broadcast
> applications).
> 
> Would that be compatible with the TagLib goals ?

It's mostly not supported because metadata is very rarely used with wave files 
and they're not a popular music format.  I'm not specifically opposed to 
supporting them, but am not really interested in writing the support for them 
myself.

-Scott


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