Metadata and Variables

Variables make handling metadata more efficient. You can use the available variable options to quickly add metadata to a file, without having to type the same information multiple times.

You can also quickly add available information such as dates or file names.

The idea behind this is to set up the metadata and variables once, and then be able to output various file versions from the project.

Example of Using Metadata and Variables

Let’s say you have an audio montage that contains CD tracks and want to render all CD tracks to individual audio files, including metadata information. You have already added some CD-Text to each track.

The CD-Text of each CD track is automatically available in the CD Metadata dialog and can be used as variables.

Now you want to add information that is not available as CD-Text, for example, the year of the CD track and a comment, to have these information available in the rendered audio files.

  1. In the CD window, select Functions > Edit CD Metadata, and fill out the @CdTrackYear@ and @CdTrackInfo1@ fields. Use the scroll-bar on the right of the dialog to select the other tracks, and add the information for all tracks. Close the dialog.

  2. Edit the metadata in the Metadata dialog. Set up the ID3 v2 fields using the variables. Click the arrow icon to open the variables and text snippets pop-up menu for a field. You can also fill out other metadata chunks, such as BWF, RIFF, or CART, or add an album picture. Or you could apply a previously set up metadata preset to add metadata.

  3. Once the information is complete, open the Render tab in the Audio Montage window. In the Source section, open the pop-up menu and select All Regions. Open the Marker pop-up menu and select CD Tracks.

  4. Click in the Format field, and click Single File Format. In the Audio File Format dialog, open the Metadata pop-up menu, and select Inherit from Source File. Click OK to close the dialog.

  5. In the Render tab, in the Render section, click Start to render the files.

Result: When you now open the rendered audio files and look at the metadata, you can see that the variables were replaced with the metadata that has been set up for each track.