That being said, I’m not very optimistic about the digital distributors (DistroKid, CD Baby, Tunecore) actually being able to see and use this data, and even less optimistic about the streaming services deciding to display this information. I am all for tagging files with as much metadata as possible because you never know what the future will bring. I will see if he wants to chime in on this thread. The main guy from Soundways reached out to me about providing better support within WaveLab about a month ago, but I have been too busy with projects to pass this on to PG or look into it more. However, I know this is different than RIN. Any entered CD-Text will be pushed to metadata in rendered WAV and mp3 files, and even some additional info such as track number/track total. You can even save this preset as part of a Montage Preset so you never have to think about it again. It’s easy to convert CD-Text info into metadata using a preset in the Metadata tab of the Montage. And also, as far as I can tell most of the RIN metadata entered or passed through with the plugin is always exported as a separate RIN file. If I’m missing something, please correct me, but that particular function of the plugin would seem to do nothing that Wavelab can’t already do. I guess that plugin has other primary functions like sending additional credit information to a separate RIN file, but what you’re talking about, embedding the artist, title, and ISRC in the exported bwf wav files, Wavelab already does.

But Wavelab does it intelligently, to multiple files, including ALL TRACKS IN GROUP. Just use Justin’s metadata preset.Īs far as I can tell that’s all the RIN-M Pro plugin does with that same function (writes artist and title to the wav RIFF info, and ISRC to the wav axml), just like Wavelab does. Wavelab can already take the CD Text Artist and Title variables and CD Track ISRC variable and embed them into the rendered wav files doing an ALL CD TRACKS IN GROUP render. Having to manually enter text and ISRC numbers over and over is a waste of time and injects error potential into production. So how do I conveniently get that embedded as RIN metadata into ALL CD TRACKS IN GROUP file exports without having to use the clumsy and redundant Sound Credit app to embed the same data one file at a time? If there is no way to embed RIN data as a file export, there should be. I’m already entering Artist, Title, and ISRC metadata to make DDP masters.

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