Add Metadata for sfx libraries

[Fox_Audio]

Hello,

As a field recordist (and sfx libraries creator), it will be awesome to add a window to fill with these metadata for each item in BWF:

- Description
- Keywords
- Library
- Microphone
- Artwork
- Manufacturer
- Channel layout
- URL

And to merge them into the item during export

Thanks!

[schwa]

As I understand it, the BWF specification has a fixed number of fields, and none of the fields you listed are in the specification.

https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3285.pdf

[Fox_Audio]

Ah ok, sorry. I usually use Soundminer to add metadata in my sound files...
Check pages 6,7,8
http://www.soundminer.com/current/MI_Whitepaper.pdf
So I don't know if you can do something similar in Reaper.

[schwa]

Unfortunately, and ironically given that white paper describes a "standard metadata digital delivery system," Soundminer metadata is a proprietary format that only Soundminer can read and write.

Some of those fields are available in various format-specific metadata schemes, like ID3 for MP3, but none of them can be universally applied to any file format.

The "right" way to do open metadata would be to use a flexible format like APEv2 for various file formats. If Soundminer had done that instead of a proprietary format, it would have been just as useful for them, or at least for their users and also their non-users.

[Fox_Audio]

Too bad
BTW thanks for your quick reply!