I am a moron.

[NeighbourDave]

Can someone please explain in simple, single syllable words why when I rip a cd to my portable harddrive in Wave, I loose the artist and album info?
Thanks

[Spoon]

Re: I am a moron.

because the program you are using to play the wave file does not support the ID Tags we write to wave?

[garym]

Re: I am a moron.

Yes. Why not use a lossless format that has standard tagging. FLAC is my recommendation.

[NeighbourDave]

Re: I am a moron.

If I use Wave to rip the cd, I can play the music but the artist and album are unknown. If I use Apple Lossless the Artist and album are known but the music wont play.
FLAC wont play on my player.

[NeighbourDave]

Re: I am a moron.

Maybe I should mention that I am trying to use the hard drive on the Sync system in my truck.

[dbfan]

Re: I am a moron.

t is possible that the sync system does not support any id tags for any lossless format, only filenames.