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Pariah Burke
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Pariah BurkeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 17, 2019
Question

Radio Industry Cart Chunk, Metadata, Export in Multitrack

  • July 17, 2019
  • 1 reply
  • 904 views
  1. How can I get Audition to provide the proper metadata (Song Title and Artist) for that song's section of the 2-hour show WAV?
  2. How can I get Audition to pull in and use the metadata embedded in each song WAV?
  3. (This might be answered by Number 1) How can I create and get Audition to provide the proper metadata and start/stop times for the talk spots?

I produce a weekly music and talk radio show/podcast consisting of 23-27 songs with talk spots and an intro and outro. The podcast is distributed to radio stations and distribution systems as a single 2-hour WAV and 320kbps MP3. For reporting and royalty payment purposes, I need to provide the track list for each show, and should timestamp each track. Providing the track list is easy, but getting Audition to display the meta manually doing timestamps is a P.I.A. I'm hoping there's an automated or semi-automated way to create and embed something like a CUE Sheet or Cart Chunks in Audition that lands in the exported WAV and/or MP3.

FYI:

  • All the WAV songs I include have full metadata when I place them into multitrack.
  • I export to MP3 via Adobe Media Encoder (File > Export > Adobe Media Encoder).
  • I'm not averse to plugins/extensions for Audition if that's the solution.

Attached screenshots:

  • Multitrack view of creating the show.
  • Showing the metadata already embedded in one of the show's songs.

1 reply

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Mike_Pen
Participating Frequently
September 17, 2025

I know I'm late responding to this, but here's what I'd do.

 

I don't believe you can change the metadata of a file in different sections of the file. Instead, in the multitrack, I would use Range Markers, put Artist & Title Info, tec. in the "Name" field. Select the cue markers you need, select File > Export > Selected Markers to CSV. Use that .csv file to create a text cue list for your show.

 

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James_Carter1
Participant
September 18, 2025

Audition doesn’t add Cart Chunk or cue sheet data on export — it just makes one big file. Best way is export your show, then use tools like CueTools or Mp3tag to add track markers and metadata. I’ve faced similar stuff while working on audio projects (my niche is speaker tools like fix my speaker), and external tools were the only fix.

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Mike_Pen
Participating Frequently
September 18, 2025

If you re-read my solution, I suggest to use the markers to create a CUE SHEET from the export of the marker data, which Audition does, and will include the start & end points of the range markers.

 

 

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