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RE: iTunes cover art help needed

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Zozo

In Reply to: RE: iTunes cover art help needed posted by mwheelerk on February 11, 2012 at 22:45:05

The audio files are wav, the image is jpg. Actually, I have just tried the same thing with aiff files, and they are OK. Is there a way I can make this work with wav files, too?

Thanks,

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RE: iTunes cover art help needed - mwheelerk 00:23:02 02/12/12 (3)
WAV files do not accept metadata like artwork to the best of my knowledge. I do not know how you could have gotten this to work on a Mac Mini. FLAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless do support metadata.

Edits: 02/12/12
- that's not how iTunes handles wav files - bwb 12:53:23 02/14/12 (0)
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  You can add metadata to a wav file in iTunes but it is not a tag, it is stored in the library database. However, it won't let you add art. Even if it did the bad thing is if you move the files to a different computer or your library gets corrupted and needs to be rebuilt you would lose all of the metadata.
  
  For that reason with iTunes AIFF is the file of choice instead of wav or use Apple lossless if you want to save some space but why bother as cheap as storage is.
  
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- RE: iTunes cover art help needed - Zozo 02:01:01 02/12/12 (1)
  It was 5-6 years ago, they might have been aiff files. Thanks for the help, so it seems that wav is not an option for me if I want to have the covers.
  - RE: iTunes cover art help needed - mwheelerk 04:10:34 02/12/12 (0)
    It is easy enough to convert files from .wav to .aiff or .mp4. You can do it in iTunes or use a third party tool. On Mac I use XLD or MAX. on Windows I think they use Foobar or dbpoweramp.

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