Where do we set Artist Name and Album properties for a project?

I don't think you can do this in Sonar - it just creates a named .wav file.  Pretty sure you need something like Pyro or Audio Creator to name files (with all the meta data) in the way itunes or WMP does.

Brian
 
EDIT:  Actually, it just occurred to me that Sonar has some sort of publication thing attached to it - you may want to look there.

Sony CD Architect does it, amongst many other things.

+1 for mp3tag

+1 for CD Architect. If you want something cheaper, then Pyro is a great inexpensive alternative.

guitartrek


As I'm relying on itunes and WMP libraries to organize my music, I'm finding that I have to populate the Artist and Album properties manually using Windows Explorer which is a pain and subject to my typing errors.  It would be much nicer if during export of a wave file that Sonar would populate these fields automatically.  There has got to be an area of the project we can set these variables, but I can't find it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you

There is... go to File / Song Info (if memory serves).  What you enter in the various fields there will show up if you export to .mp3

Also be aware that you can set the Album, artist and other property fields in Windows on multiple items in one go (naturally not for song title though). Just select a bunch of files in the same album and right click and then select properties. You might then need to select "advanced" in the options that come up after that to gain access to the correct parameters. You probably already know that, but just in case....

No it does not and I was under the impression from the help file that the info is supposed to be embedded when you save and then export to broadcast wav... which is the whole point to the broadcast wav format in the first place... or so I thought anyway.
 
 
Edit: I suppose the info could indeed be embedded but WMP and the like simply cannot read the format. Because it clearly states in the help file that this info is saved and displayed in the broadcast wav format.

Unfortunately, you can't embed this data into a wav file, no utility does that.  These items are available when you encode to mp3 or other formats from the exported wav.

I seriously doubt that Cakewalk will build this into projects - unless they put all of the conversion right into Sonar - which doesn't make much sense when they can focus on making the basic product better.  IMO 

Brian

Zuma


Not true. Read the description of Broadcast Wav in the Sonar help file. Clearly states this added info is embedded. That's the purpose of the Broadcast wav format.  
   
  --A wave file with the following embedded information:

Description--A brief description of the contents of the broadcast wave. Limited to 256 characters. Originator--The author of the broadcast wave. This information is taken from the Author field in the File Info dialog. Originator Reference--A unique reference identifier created by SONAR. Origination Date--The date the file was created. Origination Time--The time the file was created. Time Reference--The SMPTE time stamp for the beginning of the broadcast wave

OK.  But the OP isn't using Broadcast Wav's in itunes or WMP.  Different animal.
 
Brian

Zuma


Different animal than what? A riff wav? The only difference is the embedded info that he wants to be displayed in itunes and WMP... exactly what BCwav is supposed to do but doesn't. It's not a different animal, it's the answer to his problem... or at least it would be if it actually fecking worked. I'm not mad at you, but just can't figure out, like the OP, why this feature doesn't work as it's suppose to.

What I mean is - iTunes and WMP don't support Broadcast wav's.  I just checked WMP, and iTunes is rather proprietary.
 
Brian

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Different animal than what? A riff wav? The only difference is the embedded info that he wants to be displayed in itunes and WMP... exactly what BCwav is supposed to do but doesn't. It's not a different animal, it's the answer to his problem... or at least it would be if it actually fecking worked. I'm not mad at you, but just can't figure out, like the OP, why this feature doesn't work as it's suppose to.

What I mean is - iTunes and WMP don't support Broadcast wav's.  I just checked WMP, and iTunes is rather proprietary.
 
Brian

That's what I was wondering last night when I first posted. So then BroadCast wav would be propietary to just Sonar? That sucks and renders the format rather pointless to me now.

I understand now.  Here is my situation:  I rely heavily on listening to new mixes in my car.  I'm switching AWAY from CD's and will use my iphone in my car.  I need these tags updated on the MP3's so I can see my song titles on my car's display (iphone adapter)

Every I export a new version the tags are lost...except: itunes reads the Explorer set tags and stores the tagging info in a separate file and applies the old tags to new versions.  Windows Media Player reads the explorer set tags but doesn't store them.

I think my solution would be to create a lookup table with all my songs and their tagging info, and then create a program to update new version of songs with the tags.  Anytime I create a new version I can run this program.

I don't really see this as a "Sonar" problem or lack of a feature.  Sonar does not include as standard an MP3 converter, you have to do that separately from Sonar (unless you buy the converter).  

I look at Sonar as being able to allow me to create the music file but what I want to do with that after the file creation and export (as wav) is separate from Sonar.

And, as we have found out in X1, the more you add to the program the more bugs that have to be fixed (if they can be fixed).  Many programs have evolved to try and be an all encompassing suite of programs and I have yet to see one of these that didn't have problems. 

It seems that Publisher has the tools.  I don't have an FTP site, I guess I have to learn more about this.  I believe I should be able to identify my local drive as an FTP site.  Anybody using Publisher?

I have had the mp3 thing for ages, and when I export to MP3 all the tag info is there

Cheers..Grif