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6. Metadata support

6.1. Manual editing
6.2. Mass tagging
6.3. Metadata-related behavior
6.3.1. Configuration
6.3.2. Precedence of metadata information
6.3.3. ReplayGain and RVA
6.3.4. Metadata transfer when exporting
6.4. Overview of supported metadata formats
6.4.1. Metadata support matrix
6.4.2. ID3v1
6.4.3. ID3v2
6.4.4. APE
6.4.5. Ogg Xiph comments
6.4.6. FLAC pictures
6.4.7. Musepack ReplayGain data
6.4.8. Generic StreamMetadata
6.4.9. MPEG StreamMetadata
6.4.10. MOD information

Aqualung has extensive support for viewing and editing most metadata formats in use today. This section acts as a reference of the program's metadata-related capabilities and behavior.

Metadata support is implemented in Aqualung by means of the libraries that support the soundfile formats themselves, as well as additional code in Aqualung. That is, no external metadata-handling library is employed. This has not always been the case, and is a result of major refactoring carried out after having poor experience with metadata libraries. This means metadata support is inherently present in Aqualung for all soundfile formats that are compiled in.

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