Information attached to audio file

[GreyMatter2]

Hi I have some audio files and when viewed in windows explorer there are fields like Name, Title, Artist, Size

How can I edit this information in Audition. Specifically I would like the Title field edited as this is picked up by some audio players.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

GreyMatter2  wrote

Hi I have some audio files and when viewed in windows explorer there are fields like Name, Title, Artist, Size

You haven't specified exactly what format these files are, so I can't tell you specifically, but the general answer is that all file metadata except for marker data is handled in the metadata window, which, if it's not visible on your system can be seen by putting a check in Window>Metadata and looking under the appropriate tab.

If these are MP3 files, then the information you need to alter will be found in the ID3 tab, but for other types of files you may have to experiment, as not all audio players look at the same data, and as you will see, there's quite a bit of choice.

[GreyMatter2]

Hi I have exported them as MP3 files and I am ussing CS5.5 audition.

[GreyMatter2]

Sorry forgot to add I have turned off Markers and metadata as it adds a '_01' to the end of a file name and I don't see any use for markers in a completed audio file.

[ryclark]

But it is the Metadata that you need to populate the columns in Windows Explorer.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

GreyMatter2  wrote

Sorry forgot to add I have turned off Markers and metadata as it adds a '_01' to the end of a file name and I don't see any use for markers in a completed audio file.

If these are MP3 files, they don't support markers anyway. If you have MP3 files that you're happy with then I would strongly advise you not to edit the metadata in Audition - because to do this, your MP3 file will be decoded to a wav file upon opening, and re-encoded when you save the results - with an inevitable loss of quality, due to this being a compressed distribution format. Audition only works with uncompressed wav files.

But all is not lost - there are plenty of ID3 editors around (mostly free) that will let you edit the metadate in an MP3 file without decoding anything, and you would be much better off using one of those.