#Custom id3 genre wavelab 8.5 manual#
#Custom id3 genre wavelab 8.5 code#

It seems that Wavelab always writes an empty data block for the “Genre” entry which would not be necessary.ĭDP images from HOFA CD-Burn & DDP, Triumph, GearPro, Sequoia, Soundblade or Reaper do not contain that empty “Genre” data block if genre is not used. For example an image can contain data blocks for the “Title” and “Performer” entries but not contain any data blocks for “Songwriter”, “Composer”, etc.īlocks that are not used are normally left out, because on the CD there is very limited memory space that can be used for CD-Text. It only needs to contain the data blocks that are really used. The CD-Text binary file in a DDP image consists of several data blocks for the different entries.

#Custom id3 genre wavelab 8.5 code#

It is also possible to use both the ID code and plain text, so that you could use one of the predefined genres and extend this with your own text. Using that method you can write anything you want. To overcome that limitation, CD-Text also allows to use plain text for the genre entry. The only advantage of this method might be that some CD players could show the genre in different languages, but I’ve never seen a player that really does this. It is not likely that this list will ever be extended and if it would, most CD players on the market would not be able to show the new entries. When using the ID code, you only have the very limited choice of the 26 genres that you could see in the selection list mentioned above. It can be saved as an ID code or as plain text. There are two ways, how a genre can be stored in CD-Text. To explain the different behaviour in HOFA DDP Player, let me give you some technical background information:

#Custom id3 genre wavelab 8.5 manual#

Reaper is entirely manual (and therefore difficult), but it can be done with Genre key or not.īut it seems like both methods are valid and widely used, so should both be accommodated by the Hofa player IMO, as they both appear to be accommodated by the Sonoris player. I’m guessing Triumph is using no Genre key at all to appear without Genre column in Hofa, because that’s what I get in Hofa when I do the same with Reaper DDP using no Genre key (no Genre column in Hofa).

The one thing they have in common is that they all apparently never code a real Genre in CD Text.

GenreCode 0 (un-used), as done by Wavelab and Sony Music, and no Genre key at all, as done by Universal and Warner. Looking at CD Text in DDPs made in Wavelab and Reaper, and CD Text on major label commercial CD releases (where they generally do the CD Text themselves), it seems like there are two ways the Genre is generally done. I’ll reconnect with HOFA as well and see if they can find a work around to omit genre columns in the way Wavelab is handling it. I would just like to get it off the radar. I guess my main point of this thread is to not have Wavelab DDP files trigger an empty column because then the client starts to think about genre and what to put there, and of course Wavelab doesn’t technically support genres which is fine with me. Yes, having a player add EQ based on genre would certainly not be ideal. I’ll try to find time to analyze the CD-Text file of a Triumph DDP and Wavelab. Maybe this is why PG has basically disabled CD Text Genre in Wavelab. It’s interesting you brought this up, because looking at the Triumph page it indicates the genre codes could be used by a player to apply EQ, which seems like maybe a really bad idea, and maybe why one might never want to code Genre in CD Text. The cdtext files might be plain text, or if not, maybe some obvious difference can be seen if opened in TextEdit anyway. I don’t have access to a DDP fileset right not, but maybe you could make test copies of the Triumph and Wavelab DDPs and look at the files in the DDP filesets that contain the CD text, to see what the difference is between them. The bottom 3 song DDP was created in Triumph and HOFA ignores and doesn’t even display the Album Genre field which is ideal: The top DDP Player with 6 songs was made in Wavelab and is causing the player to show a blank Album Genre field. other fields?Ĭould you see if Wavelab is somehow adding an empty Album Genre field? Here’s a side by side image of a DDP created in Triumph vs. Is there something different about how Wavleab leave Album Genre empty vs. For example, I don’t fill in the songwriter and composer field in Wavelab CD-Text and that doesn’t show up in HOFA DDP Player which is good. Their player is pretty smart and leaves empty column invisible.

So that is why you see that column with an image from Wavelab.”

I heard from HOFA and they say “for some reason, Wavelab always creates an empty Genre entry. Well this explains why I can’t find it! I don’t really ever use it but it would be nice if an empty Album Genre didn’t appear in a DDP Player to alarm clients so they think about it. WaveLab does not allow to edit the genre, which is set to “unused” on the CD.