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Question

Stumper-create a database

Mar 18, 2015 2:10PM PDT

I have thousands of sound files that I want to create a database of. Is there a program that can batch extract the info from the Comments section of File Info along with the file name? These are old Sound Designer 2 files which are incompatible with many existing sound database programs. And when I convert the files to .wav files they lose the info in the comments section. I need to extract the comments and then create a csv file that I can then import into one of the sound file database programs.

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My first thought was about LAME
Mar 19, 2015 12:13AM PDT
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Mar 19, 2015 2:28AM PDT

This looks to be a bit above my pay grade but I'll look into both of these. Initially I'm skeptical because these are SoundDesigner2 (sd2) files, not mpeg or mp3. Their metadata seems to be more related to standard mac file metadata rather than id3 tags. They will play in iTunes but none of the info in the comments window appears when looking at the file info in iTunes. So I guess I need something that can just pull the info from standard files rather than something that uses id3 tags.

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The thing is, there is no standard.
Mar 19, 2015 2:43AM PDT

Or rather there are so many standards that we continue to have to craft apps, scripts and code to deal with and create solutions to what folk want.

This format has been kicking around since 2004 or prior so maybe Avid has a tool to do what you need?
Bob