How to Add Album Art to a Wav File

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Add album art to WAV

January 12, 2016 in anthology fine art by

WAVs are uncompressed music files, often used by audiophiles due to their high audio quality. Traditionally, however, they have had poor metadata support, which means information technology is hard to embed artwork inside WAV files. This makes your music library harder to navigate, and just less fun! It's only recently that more than and more software are supporting WAV tags, and this therefore opens the door to embedded WAV album art.

If you have a library of WAVs without album fine art, where do you start? The answer depends on if these files are already tagged or not.

If the files are not already tagged with textual identification, classification and structural tags then it's best to start here; past identifying the albums and other releases in your drove you will allow software to notice artwork for the files more reliably. Have a wait at how to tag untagged WAVs with bliss.

Using bliss to add artwork to WAVs

You tin use elation to notice, download, embed and salve artwork into your WAV albums. Beginning, download and install bliss:

Now run elation. It'll announced in the Organization Tray (Windows) or the Menu (OS 10). Right-click then choose "Albums". This opens your browser, displaying bliss'south front page. Click settings. If you are running for the first time, the settings will already be displayed. Here'south what you lot run across:

First nosotros'll place the location of the WAV files. This is the root folder in which all your WAV albums are stored. Next to Music location either type in the location, or click Scan to find the library. If your music library is stored on a network fastened device, read this.

Now, let'south enable the cover art rule. Click Add together or change cover art. The cover art settings volition appear underneath:

Unset cover art settings, including music folder location

The Saved artwork name determines the name of an additional artwork image file stored in the same folder equally each WAV album. The best filename to choose for this depends on a few things but generally "folder" or "cover" is all-time.

If yous desire to embed artwork inside the WAVs, make sure to cull Embed fine art where possible! Generally I always recommend embedding artwork.

You can likewise click more to further refine the artwork that is found and assessed by elation. You tin choose minimum and maximum sizes, and more. Call back that bliss will also assess the existing artwork in your collection. If y'all already have artwork, it will be assessed that it complies with, for example, your sizing rules. Unless y'all choose to overwrite automatically, however, the existing artwork will not be overwritten.

One time you are happy with your settings, click Apply rules:

Now bliss begins scanning your library, start identifying your albums, then assessing them. As it runs, you'll see albums existence added to the filigree on the Albums page:

elation will add all albums it finds, regardless of its file format ( WAV is just i of the file formats that bliss supports). All albums are treated the same.

Once assessment of a given album is consummate, you lot'll see the upshot of the assessment:

Because the installation of artwork into a cover-less album is a fully automated process, you may find bliss volition assess, find artwork is missing, automatically find the correct artwork, install it, then re-assess and mark the anthology as compliant all in one step.

If bliss cannot find artwork, information technology'll be marked not-compliant:

Completed non-compliant album missing art

For such albums yous can click the pencil icon shown when hovering over the album. This takes you to the Change cover art page where y'all can choose from some alternatives found past more than lenient online queries. If y'all have a number of such albums, the fastest way of choosing alternatives is past combining the Embrace art alternatives view and a compliance filter.

You tin can also click the Activity folio to meet what bliss has done, and which albums information technology has installed artwork for.

I hope this helps y'all find your WAV album art quickly and easily!