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Moving external drive between computers, my head is steaming!
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are you ripping your CD's to?

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Sorry I forgot to mention that I have ripped all my CD's into full rez .WAV files. I have ripped nearly 500 gig to a 1 terabyte Seagate USB hard drive.

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This is the dealbreaker for using the .wav file format. There is no defacto standard for tagging in .wav and therefore it is not a good solution for interoperability. Many applications don't bother tagging the files at all, and only keep the metadata in the application's database.

I believe this may be your problem. The WMP you used for ripping has the data stored in its database, the other WMP does not.

Google 'metadata and .wav' for further insight. One of the many compressed lossless formats that utilize standardized tags may be in your future.

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RGibran wrote:

This is the dealbreaker for using the .wav file format. There is no defacto standard for tagging in .wav and therefore it is not a good solution for interoperability. Many applications don't bother tagging the files at all, and only keep the metadata in the application's database.

I believe this may be your problem. The WMP you used for ripping has the data stored in its database, the other WMP does not.

Google 'metadata and .wav' for further insight. One of the many compressed lossless formats that utilize standardized tags may be in your future.

RG

RG you hit the nail right on the head. Great call. And JA seems to think that the archives on the Stereophile web site contain enough information for anyone to learn about, understand, properly setup and use a computer based music system. I don't think so.

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Some file formats can contain varying amounts of metadata fields. However, players and library managers like iTunes and Windows Media Player often use their own storage schemes outside of the song file in order to ensure the same types of metadata can be stored regardless of song file format.

I actually think the problem here isn't the WAV format but rather the library software being used on the 2nd computer not knowing where the metadata is stored, or not able to access it because it's not on the USB hard drive for whatever reason.

For example, iTunes by default uses a common folder than contains not just the media (i.e. song files) but also a few library files that tell iTunes about the media---a standard database technique. When you run iTunes from another computer you have the ability to select a different library ... it'll ask you where the library is, and after you select it iTunes sees all your stuff. I've never used Windows Media Player but surely there's a similar ability?

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