# Wav tags - file transfer
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222
**Category:** Mac
**Tags:** player
**Created:** [March 28, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222 "2024-03-28T17:23:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/1 "2024-03-28T17:23:44Z")
Hi,
After I tagged albums I imported in WAV, I want to copy/paste all the files from the computer to an external drive, and than from the drive to another computer. Did it keep the files with the tags?
I tried few after hard work and looks like the files on the seconds computer doesn’t have the tags…. Is it make sense?
Thanks for any kind of help.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/2 "2024-03-28T17:36:45Z")
You can open such a WAV file in Mp3tag and press Alt + T to show all tags.
All these tags are embedded in your WAV and all these tags will be transferred wherever you copy your WAV file.
But it depends on your playing device and/or software if you can show all these tags on your second computer or your car or your smartphone.
WAV as music format with embedded tags is only supported by a few devices.
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/3 "2024-03-28T17:50:44Z")
Thanks you. I am transferring everything to an old Mac mini I want intend to stream the files from into a new Cambridge audio streamer.
The old MIni is running a high sierra os. I think I can’t put MP3TAG on it that’s why I did the importing and tagging on my newer Mac. Maybe that’s the reason I can’t see the tagges on the files when I on them in finder?
I really afraid to do all this work for nothing.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/4 "2024-03-28T19:16:52Z")
> [@Riko](#):
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> Maybe that’s the reason I can’t see the tagges on the files
Where are you missing the display of tags? In MP3tag? In your player?
If it is the player you have to find out whether that player supports tags in wav files at all.
It would still be intersting to see what the extended tags dialogue shows.
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/5 "2024-03-28T19:22:48Z")
I am missing the tags just when I look at he files themself on Finder (colum look)…. On the newer mac on the same look on finder you get all the tag info in full in the last colum. Didn’t try any yet in the streamer, I did not get it yet. Now I’m all
Into importing and tagging project 🙂
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/6 "2024-03-28T19:26:33Z")
I doubt that the finder is a good tool to check the presence of tags.
What does MP3tag show in the extended tags dialogue?
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/7 "2024-03-28T19:28:16Z")
I can not check it on the Mini with mp3tag because its HighSiera OS and mp3tag can be installed on later OS only. This mini max os ia high sierra
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/8 "2024-03-28T19:29:46Z")
If you copy 1 file to the more recent Mac where you run MP3tag then you should be able to determine whether tag data is there or not.
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/9 "2024-03-28T19:34:02Z")
this is how it looks on the newer Mac)
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/10 "2024-03-28T19:35:35Z")
This is how it looks on the Mini.
- I know its not the same file, it is a exapmle as the Mini in the office and I home already....
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/11 "2024-03-28T19:36:36Z")
It is missing on the finder look in the MIni the hall bottom right section and the cover look....
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/12 "2024-03-28T19:48:35Z")
Well when I open the files directly from the external drive om mp3tag you can see the tags, so I'm 99% it's a OS thing on the Mini. He just doesn't show them on Finder look but they are there.
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### Author:  [@AreDigg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AreDigg)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/13 "2024-03-28T23:02:45Z")
It may be different in older version of macOS, but if you select an audio file and go to the `View` menu in Finder and select preview options, you can choose which metadata that should be shown in the preview pane.
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### Author:  [@Riko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Riko)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/14 "2024-03-29T08:22:23Z")
Ok great I’ll check it. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wav-tags-file-transfer/64222/15 "2024-04-28T08:23:16Z")
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