Splitting a large audio file and adding ID3 tags

Report · Dec 30, 2019

Hello All,

I'm VERY new to Adobe Audition (12.1.5.3 - Mac running Catalina). I had used Audacity for the longest time but Audacity can not run on Catalina. I'm learning my way through this. I have a large recorded audio file. All I want to do is separate the file into multiple tracks and export them to individual files with their own ID3 tags. Thus far I've been able to open the file in multi track, trim down and edit the tracks the way I want to. I've also figured out how to export them as single files. The thing driving me CRAZY is adding the ID3 tags to each exported file. Can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me out? I've searched up and down the net and literally have found zero resouces to help me.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Report · Dec 31, 2019

You can only do this in Waveform view. If you export each file separately as a wav, and have the Metadata panel open (Window>Metadata) you can select the ID3 tab and edit the data for that file there. Now you do Save As, and select MP3 and make sure there's a check in the 'include markers and other metadata' box. The ID3 information will be stored with your MP3 then. You have to do it this way because Audition doesn't natively handle MP3 files (wav only) and it's only MP3 files that support ID3 data.

Personally I find it a lot easier to manipulate ID3 data using a specialist tag editor, because then you can make blanket changes to files if you need to, and Audition doesn't support this at all