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steve at your heaven replied on August 21, 2008 06:17 to the question "Does SB read meta data in a .wav file?" in Songbird:

Maybe this has something to do with it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_fi...

"BWF (Broadcast Wave Format) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV. BWF allows metadata to be stored in the file. See European Broadcasting Union: Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format

Herwet replied on July 24, 2008 17:44 to the question "Does SB read meta data in a .wav file?" in Songbird:

I suspected that WAV didn ́t support meta data BUT when I ripped to WAV with DbPoweramp it wrote metadata to the file. It could be though that it is DbPoweramp reading from its own database and showing this data when I mark the WAV file in Windows Explorer. Could be could be...

tylerstyle replied on July 24, 2008 12:08 to the question "Does SB read meta data in a .wav file?" in Songbird:

Wav has no metadata container per se, now has it?
I don't think, that it is supported. Sorry.

Herwet asked a question in Songbird on July 16, 2008 21:52:

Does SB read meta data in a .wav file?

Why doesn ́t SB read the meta data in a ripped WAV file? Doesn ́t it support WAV?
(I ripped it with dbPoweramp to WAV and it shows that it has metadata in Windows Explorer.)

The same song ripped to FLAC (also with dbPoweramp) shows metadata.