# More Audio Format Metadata? **URL:** \ **Category:** General JUCE discussion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/more-audio-format-metadata/15704 "2015-10-09T23:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jrlanglois](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/jrlanglois/32/21372_2.png) [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/more-audio-format-metadata/15704/1 "2015-10-09T23:38:22Z")
Are there plans for handling more metadata reading (and writing) into the current AudioFormat subclasses soon? It seems a bit lacking all around. For example: WAV RIFF List Info tags (which is standard), FLAC metadata (none at all?!), CD-Text (part of Red Book for WAV). ID3 is also common amongst multiple formats; not just in MP3s (which JUCE skips over), but in OGG (where JUCE supports few of them) and even WAV (unofficially, I think). I know that Jules mentioned wishing support for FFMPEG; would be cool to have a juce-\>ffmpeg wrapper appear tomorrow and did \_everything\_ in a gold plated fashion, but that's extremely doubtful. ---
**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/more-audio-format-metadata/15704/2 "2015-10-11T10:24:48Z")
We generally add specific metadata readers when people ask for them, or when we need them ourselves; otherwise they're not on our to-do-list, as there's just too many of them to know which ones would be useful! ---
**Author:** ![jrlanglois](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/jrlanglois/32/21372_2.png) [@jrlanglois](https://forum.juce.com/u/jrlanglois)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/more-audio-format-metadata/15704/3 "2015-10-14T02:03:58Z")
Since that's the case, here's an extension to your implementation of WAV RIFF LIST INFO reading and writing. I've also added a unit test in there (sounds odd for an audio codec, but it actually came in quite handy.). https://github.com/jrlanglois/JUCE/commit/e4cfed843789cab2e2be81b49d9736f4697a2bc1 Sources: - http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/RIFF.html#Info - http://www.aelius.com/njh/wavemetatools/doc/riffmci.pdf - http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/WAVE.html - http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/Samples.html ---
**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/more-audio-format-metadata/15704/4 "2015-10-14T08:36:13Z")
Awesome stuff, thanks Joel, will have a look asap!