NAME

       wvtag — manipulate wavpack metadata

SYNOPSIS

       wvtag [-options] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       wvtag  applies  the  specified  metadata operations to each of the specified WavPack source files in this
       order: clean, import, delete, write, extract, list.  Note that WavPack metadata is stored in APEv2  tags,
       and  wvtag  will automatically import from an ID3v1 tag if it is the only tag present in the source file,
       and that ID3v1 tag will be deleted and replaced with an APEv2 tag if an edit is requested.

   OPTIONS
       --allow-huge-tags
               allow tag data up to 16 MB.  Embedding > 1 MB is not recommended for portable devices and may not
               work with some programs, including older versions of WavPack.

       -c      extract cuesheet only to stdout (equivalent to -x “cuesheet”)

       -cc     extract cuesheet to source-name.cue file in same directory as  source  file  (equivalent  to  -xx
               “cuesheet=%a.cue”)

       --clean, --clear
               clean all items from tag (done first)

       -d “Field”
               delete specified metadata item (text or binary)

       -h, --help
               display this help

       --import-id3
               import  applicable  tag  items  from ID3v2.3 tag present in DSF and possibly other files into the
               APEv2 tag.  If there are > 1 MB cover images present, add --allow-huge-tags to include them.

       -l, --list
               list all tag items (done last)

       --no-utf8-convert
               don't recode passed tags from local encoding to UTF-8, assume they are in UTF-8 already

       -q      Be quiet: keep console output to a minimum.

       -v, --version
               Write program version to stdout

       -w “Field=”
               delete specified metadata item (text or binary)

       -w “Field=Value”
               write specified text metadata to APEv2 tag

       -w “Field=@file.ext”
               write specified text metadata from file to APEv2 tag, normally used for  embedded  cuesheets  and
               logs (field names “Cuesheet” and “Log”)

       --write-binary-tag “Field=@file.ext”
               write  the  specified  binary  metadata  file  to APEv2 tag, normally used for cover art with the
               specified field name “Cover Art (Front)”

       -x “Field”
               extract the specified tag field only to stdout

       -xx “Field[=filename]”
               extract the specified tag field into a named file in same directory as source file.  An  optional
               filename  specification  may contain ‘%a’ which gets replaced with the audio file base name; ‘%t’
               which gets replaced with the tag field name (note that for  binary  tags,  this  comes  from  the
               data);  and  ‘%e’  which gets replaced with the extension of the binary tag source file (or “txt”
               for a text tag).

       -y      yes to all warnings; use with caution!

SEE ALSO

       wavpack(1), wvgain(1), wvunpack(1), www.wavpack.com

AUTHORS

       David Bryant <david@wavpack.com>
       Jan Starý <hans@stare.cz>

Debian                                          February 9, 2024                                        WVTAG(1)