Creating OT samples with no BOM data?

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I have a big folder of one-shots I made. And I used Adobe Audition to get them all at the same loudness reference (the Linn is MUCH quieter than the 909).
I put all 128 samples into the OT but they all include BPM data when you’re in the AED menu. Is it possible to export those somehow so I don’t have to go into each file in AED and set Timestretch to OFF?
Audition doesn’t have a Remove Metadata option. (And I’m not sure if that would fix it)

Thanks!

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Strange that Audition doesn’t let you edit metadata. I remember doing it on Cool Edit Pro quite often, messing with loop points etc.

no need to bother with this, see sezare's answer below

If you’re competent with the command line then ffmpeg is a quick way to do it, especially if you can knock together a bash script.

for file in *.wav
do ffmpeg -i "$file" -map_metadata -1 -codec copy "${file%.wav}_copy.wav"
done

Will strip out all metadata from any .wav file in the current working directory and write it to the same folder as a new file.

Only use this if you feel comfortable in the command line as it could result in data loss if you aren’t sure exactly what you’re doing.

And you need to have ffmpeg installed on your system first.

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I’ll look again, but it wasn’t in the export settings module. I’m still new to audition, so maybe it is there. It’s weird if it isn’t.

thanks for the rec of the command line. I’ve not been there in a while, but as long as I set the directory, I should be OK.

[immediately deletes every project and my mac explodes]

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Sum up : set TSTR to Off in SRC Setup.

This is specific to Octatrack.
Timestretch On by default in AED Attributes when you load a sample without .ot file.*
Tempo calculated depending on sample length. Not referring to metadata, but sample name can be taken in account for tempo.

Default SRC/Playback Setup TSTR setting is AUTO and use Attributes settings.

Simplest is to set TSTR to Off imo.
You can save projects templates with that set to all parts and banks.
Another possibility is to load samples in Octachainer, make sample chains with Timestretch Off. An .ot file is generated with AED settings like Timestretch off.

I suppose Digichain can do it too.

*An .ot file is created when you save sample settings that include Trim, Slices, Attributes settings.

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