WAVE Meta Tools

A collection of tools to manipulate WAVE files, with an emphasis on the metadata used by the radio industry.

wavemetainfo
Display the chunks contained in a WAVE file (RFC822 style).

waveunwrap
Unwrap a WAVE containing MPEG audio.

bsiwave_to_mpeg
Perl script to convert a BSI style WAVE file and its metadata to an MPEG Audio file.

Documentation

• BSI Wave File to ID3 Tag Mapping
• CartChunk to ID3 Tag Mapping
• List of the fields outputted by wavemetainfo
• Output from wavemetainfo for sample file

Download

• wavemetatools-0.2.0.tar.gz
• Sample file created by BSI InfoEdit
• Sample CartChunk file
• github.com/njh/wavemetatools

See Also

• WaveInfo Ruby Gem
• CartChunk homepage
• Official RIFF/WAVE Specifications
• BSI's Info Editor
• ID3 v2.3.0 Informal Standard
• Broadcast Wave File Format
• Sample BWF files
• Comparison of ID3 Standards

Nicholas J Humfrey <njh@aelius.com>