Album artĪlbum art probably remains the #1 reason people first use bliss. It also means the same rules that are defined to do things like automatically find year and genre details can be used for WAV albums. Similarly, album level details such as genre or year can be changed on the same screen. This means the standard bliss album page can be used to change album and artist names. Changing WAV album detailsĪ WAV album is treated like any other in bliss.
This has meant the full range of features in bliss are now available to WAV users album art, textual metadata tagging, even tagging old untagged WAV files. We added WAV tagging to bliss at the end of last year.
WAVs are now being more commonly tagged with ID3 tags, and more and more music software are supporting this. The result is that WAV library management has always been more difficult compared to other formats. Meanwhile, other formats use shared tagging schemes, such as ID3, or Vorbis Comments.
Furthermore, reading RIFF tags would be yet-another piece of code that music software programmers have to write and maintain. However, said tags do not allow as rich a range of metadata as tagging schemes in other file formats. It's not actually true that metadata storage inside WAV files is a new thing as a container format, tagging has been built in from the start in the form of RIFF tags. This is in comparison to other file formats which have well agree approaches to metadata storage. The reason for this is that until recently the approaches to tagging WAV files were not that well agreed. Other than the storage size requirement for all those uncompressed, lossless files, the main cost of using WAV has traditionally been that management of a WAV library is much harder. To the really obsessive fastidious audiophile, the fact that it is uncompressed also means less work for the processor and therefore, so they say, less electrical interference that may affect playback quality.
To the audiophile, the fact that the audio stream is lossless is extremely important it means there has been no loss of data in the process of transferring from the source material (CD, studio master) to the WAV. WAV is, typically, a container format containing uncompressed, lossless audio data. WAVs have always been valued by the audiophile. Now, though, WAV is shaking off its rather onerous (in terms of management) reputation. It's been around for twenty-five years and it remains popular, despite shortcomings when it comes to music library management. When it comes to music file formats, WAV is the venerable grandfather to the new kids on the block. The basic structure of the user interface is similar though, so I'm keeping these old pages around in case they still contain useful information. This post may contain old screenshots of bliss which has been replaced by a new design.