Subject:metadata

Posted by: Westside Steve

Date:8/8/2014 12:19:08 PM

if I would record a karaoke track and a vocal can I turn off the metadata within Sound Forge?
Thanks
WSS

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: rraud

Date:8/8/2014 12:38:17 PM

What do you mean by... "turn off"?
Simply do not enter any metadata.. or delete what's already there.

In case your unaware, 'Metadata' is not audio content.
I hope your not asking to remove vocals from a song. We (SCS forum regulars) haven't seen that request for a while.

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: Westside Steve

Date:8/8/2014 1:00:27 PM

Hi.
maybe disable is a better word? Here's what happened.
for a lark I have been doing a little project singing ballads and standards in between my solo original CDs.
I have no intention of selling any of these but I have posted some to my Sound Cloud account.
one of the tracks got bounced back with a copyright warning saying that some company called the karaoke crew own the rights.
someone told me that it was probably triggered by metadata and that I could turn that off or disable it in a program called audacity.
I assume SoundForge can do anything.

does that sound reasonable to you or am I just totally confused?
WSS

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: rraud

Date:8/8/2014 1:45:32 PM

I suppose it's possible your song tittle matched something that copyrighted?
Not very familiar with SC submission protocol. I don't recall any issues whilst experimenting with it a few years ago. I would just confirm the metadata copyright attribute is blank, same with mp3 and other file formats.
Otherwise when initially saving (or save as), un-check the 'Save metadata with file' box in the save window.

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: Westside Steve

Date:8/8/2014 2:36:14 PM

thank you sir. I will try that.

PS I had also tried changing the song's title and still it got bounced immediately making me (actually my buddy) suspect metadata.
WSS

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:8/8/2014 3:53:35 PM

If these are MP3 files then a quicker thing to try is to right-mouse-button click on the file in Windows explorer, choose properties, and then click the Summary tab. You'll see all the meta data including ID3 tags displayed. You can edit/delete any or all of them. The nice thing about this is it does it without re-rendering the MP3 file, so you won't lose any quality.

I'm not sure if this works for WAV, since i don't think i have a single WAV file that i haven't created myself and none of them have any metadata in them at all.

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: rraud

Date:8/8/2014 5:15:08 PM

I don't think changing the metadata (only) in a Wave file re-renders the file, as the re-save is instantaneous. At least in SF.
I use an older version of Winamp (2.8) to play and change MP3 metadata.. Winamp opens extremely fast. Opening/changing the metadata is very quick & easy as well.. double-click (or right-click) the time/title display.

Subject:RE: metadata

Reply by: Westside Steve

Date:8/9/2014 5:57:20 PM

Thank you for the information gentlemen. Don't know if that's where my problem lies but I will certainly roll the dice.
WSS