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>