Tim Prebble has been publishing on his blog a series of posts talking about metadata. Some days ago he emailed various developers of sound library apps and asked some questions about metadata support in their applications.
Applications featured:
- AudioFinder
- Basehead
- Library Monkey Pro
- Snapper
- Soundminer
- Twisted Wave
Questions:
- Could you provide basic info for me as to how your application handles metadata?
- Does it read iXML?
- Does it write iXML?
- Does it read BEXT?
- Does it write BEXT?
- Do you use your own custom metadata?
- Can your custom metadata be read by other programs?
- Can your custom metadata be exported for use in other programs?
- What fields of metadata do you support?
- Can I import metadata from a spreadsheet? what formats are supported?
great rundown of these apps- I use Soundminer, and consider it to be a great tool, but still do not think it is perfect- Seeing the competition is nice, but It seems post sound still has fewer tools than I would like….