Tag(s) on WAV files

[fpefpe]

Hello --- I always thought than WAV files did not support tag, buit I just download a album in WAV format and to my surprise there were TAGS for each file in the zip

Is this a new addition to the layout/format of WAV files?

[LyricsLover]

@fpefpe

Is this a new addition to the layout/format of WAV files?

Belatedly, thank you for WAV support

Just a very belated note to thank Florian for adding WAV support! I requested this back in 2008 Plea for WAV support soon after which my project ceased and I didn't use Mp3Tag again. Then I gor a forum notification of Florian's Plea for WAV support - #36 by Florian saying that he added it in 2016. I pledged 50e at the time, so I have now made that donation. Though I don't use Mptag these days, since the work that needed it is finished, I still remember what a delight it was to use, turning a hu…

including the developers note:

Plea for WAV support

Just noticed this post and wanted to add that back in 2016, with Mp3tag v2.76, I've [2016-04-07] NEW: added support for WAV files with INFO tags and ID3v2 tags.

[Lebon14]

@fpefpe

Is this a new addition to the layout/format of WAV files?

No. WAV files, which is a container, usually for PCM, always supported RIFF tagging. See:

https://exiftool.org/TagNames/RIFF.html

However, this is quite the niche format to tag on because it's (mostly) an uncompressed file format and people tend to use compressed file formats (either lossy or lossless) tagging. However, it's common in DAW to store, not only standard tagging but also information such as indexes when composing. So, this is more something in use in record studios.