[FFmpeg-user] Adding metadata tags to wav files

[Paul B Mahol]

On 6/11/17, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I successfully add metadata tags (album, artist, title, genre...) to mp3
> files
> using ffmpeg:
>
>  $ ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -c copy -metadata title="Yesterday" output.mp3
>
> .  When I try to do the same with wav format, the tags are then properly
> shown
> by ffmpeg itself, but they aren't by common media players.  Has anyone ever
> experimented that?

Common media players do not support riff metadata.