P: Support for WAV Files (Voice Memos)

@Stuart Rauh, try importing from Files section rather than the Devices section of the Import window, as detailed here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-support-for-wav-files-voice-memos/idc-p/11969784#M18805 

I'm using Lightroom Classic 12.3.

I recently started shooting with a Canon R5. One of it's features is to allow recording audio memos for individual photographs. When imported from the camera's memory card the audio files are ignored. If the card is copied to a folder on the computer and imported from there, the audio files are imported as sidecar files and listed in the photo's metadata.

This will be an important feature to me.  It would be very welcome for them to import directly from the memory card rather than requiring the entire set of files to be copied locally and imported from the folder.

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Richard, are you trying to import a .wav as a standalone file or as a sidecar accompanying a photo?  You can't import a .wav file standalone, but a little-known feature of LR lets you import it as a sidecar to a photo with the same base filename:

Clicking on the Audio File in the Metadata panel plays it. This is a handy feature for those diminishing number of cameras that support audio annotations.

If you're trying to import a .wav annotation from your Olympus as a sidecar, and you don't see it appearing in the Metadata panel, upload the photo and its .wav file to Dropbox or similar and post the sharing link here. We can see if it imports on other LR installations and perhaps diagnose the issue.

I have been uploading images with WAV files attached in Lightroom for a number of years but all these have been taken with Canon equipment. It is only since I have purchased an Olympus OM E-M1X that I have had the problem. I know that the WAV files are on the card because I can play it when it is in the camera and also when I upload the file onto my desktop.

Because Lightroom is a photo-editing and organizing software. Besides images, it does offer some limited support for video files, but that's it.

Michael

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Michael Niessen - Photographer, photo-editor, educator

You can import only pictures in Lightroom. Audio files like .wav and so on doesn't work in Lightroom.

wav files can only be loaded for a slideshow.

I can import WAV audio files from my Canons but not from my Olympus OM EM1X;  however works perfectly on Lightroom on a PC.

I'm importing GoPro footage and there is a GoPro mode that will output both a MP4 and WAV. I have two files: GX0001.MP4 and GX0001.WAV but Lightroom won't import the WAV file.

Is it possible to import audio files?