Q:  The format used by AudioStation for WAV tagging is not documented nor
    usable by any other software I know. I have thousands of WAV files 
    I wish to index using your software, but I do not wish to commit to a 
    single source for managing my music collection. As a system programmer, 
    I could write my own utilities to complement your product, but I need 
    a documentation about the format you use for tagging WAV files.


A:  AudioStation uses industry-standard formats to embed information into 
    media files.  For example, MP3 files use a standard called ID3.  
    AudioStation will write ID3 version 2 compatible tags and read from 
    either version 1 or version 2 compatible tags. For more information on
    MP3 tags, check out the web site www.ID3.org.

    Windows Media files use Microsoft defined "attributes" as noted in the
    Windows Media Format SDK.

    WAVE files use a standard RIFF INFO chunk as documented by Microsoft.
    So does AudioStation. The only custom bit is the itrk field which we 
    store the track number in.
    AudioStation maps the following data in the INFO chunk:
    IART    Artist
    IGNR    Genre
    INAM    Title
    IPRD    Album
    itrk    Track Number - this is an AudioStation extension (noted by the 
                           lower case). This contains a string representation
                           of the track number (ex. "5" or "09").  Binary
                           data is not supported.
   

For more information please visit:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dx8_c/
directx_cpp/htm/_dx_about_riff_dxaudio.asp

(you need to stitch together this "long" URL string for it to work or do 
a search for RIFF.)

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