Unable to read APEv2 tags from .wav files.

[lazka]

Originally reported by: Abhimanyu Pathania (Bitbucket: abhimanyuPathania, GitHub: abhimanyuPathania)

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According to mutagen documentation, the WavePack(.wav,.wv) files use APEv2 tags. But on trying to read the tag:

#!python

from mutagen.apev2 import APEv2
from mutagen.wavpack import WavPack

# file_path is absolute path to the wave file

print(APEv2(file_path))
# print(WavPack(file_path))

This gives the error:

#!python

mutagen.apev2.APENoHeaderError: No APE tag found

I get similar error with the WavPack class.

The code works for .wv extensions. I tried reading with every other tag class but it gave errors. Looking at audio files in VLC and foobar2000, they do have the metadata.

I have attached the .wav file which I used. There are some more sample files here. For few samples I had to tag them with foobar2000 myself but results remain same.

I am using mutagen 1.31

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lazka/mutagen/issue/256

[lazka]

Original comment by Christoph Reiter (Bitbucket: lazka, GitHub: lazka):

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.wav != WavPack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV

.wav support is currently missing from mutagen, see #207

[lazka]

Original comment by Abhimanyu Pathania (Bitbucket: abhimanyuPathania, GitHub: abhimanyuPathania):

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well that was embarrassing...

PS - I was able to read the sample file using AAC class but it returned empty {}.

[lazka]

Original comment by Abhimanyu Pathania (Bitbucket: abhimanyuPathania, GitHub: abhimanyuPathania):

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.wav != WavPack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV

.wav support is currently missing from mutagen