First, Let me assure you with a grin on my face that I completely understand the philosophy of junked PC’s, wheely dealing, and standing at the back door of commercial stations as they wheel out the outdated gear they’re upgrading, and begging, borrowing or otherwise acquiring equipment to support a volunteer run station… that’s why I frequent sites like this where like minded folks who have a passion for community broadcasting gather.
Seems I’ve spent many years honing my skills in this area of expertise, so, I’m with you there… all the way.
I no longer work for commercial radio, but at 60 years old, am now passing on the knowledge I have acquired, to student and school broadcasters and small rural communities who are extremely disadvantaged in the radio broadcasting field.
I have a double garage full of donated bits and pieces, and just one or two pieces of equipment which are actually valuable so I empathise with you completely.
I use tagged .wav files in both Simian and VUPlayer and have an arrangement with my sons station, also non profit, which also uses Simian, as do a number of small community stations in New Zealand.
Because I have around 2000 tracks in linear PCM, I’d like to be able to use them in mAirlist and furthermore to use the tags which are “Intro” and “Segue” as I’ve taken an enormous amount of time to insert these tags into these files.
As a further aside, having tagged this information into the .wav’s, I use CoolEdit Pro and Adobe Audition to render these tracks down to .mp3 via a batch process.
I realise, however, that the tagging scenario with many formats is non standardised, but this BSI format seemed a good place to start when dealing with .wav’s.
EDIT: and natively supported by CoolEdit and Adobe Audition with reservations.