# Install bwfmetaedit with Homebrew

Tool for embedding, validating, and exporting BWF file metadata. Version 26.01 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:bwfmetaedit
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bwfmetaedit
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:bwfmetaedit
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 26.01
- **Source summary:** Tool for embedding, validating, and exporting BWF file metadata
- **Homepage:** <https://mediaarea.net/BWFMetaEdit>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- bwfmetaedit (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 26.01
## Project history and usage

BWF MetaEdit is a MediaArea tool for embedding, validating, exporting, and reporting metadata in Broadcast WAVE files. It is closely tied to audio preservation workflows and the FADGI Broadcast WAVE Metadata Embedding Guidelines.

### Project history

The official MediaArea page says BWF MetaEdit was initially funded by the Library of Congress and FADGI, designed and led by AVPreserve, and developed by MediaArea. The project page and README describe support for importing, editing, embedding, exporting, validating, checksumming, and reporting Broadcast WAVE metadata.

The official Git repository carries both CLI and GUI build instructions. Tags show a 1.1.0 release in 2010 and later date-based releases such as 20.05, 24.10, 25.04, and 26.01.

### Adoption history

BWF MetaEdit's adoption is concentrated in archives, libraries, and audiovisual preservation rather than broad Unix administration. MediaArea distributes binaries for Windows, macOS, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, Raspbian, and Flatpak, while the supplied package facts show a Homebrew formula for the CLI.

### How it is used

Users apply BWF MetaEdit to inspect or repair Broadcast WAVE metadata, export technical and descriptive fields as CSV or XML, verify or embed MD5 checksums for audio data chunks, and validate files against FADGI, EBU, Microsoft, and IBM-related WAVE/BWF expectations.

### Why package nerds care

BWF MetaEdit matters to package nerds because it is a preservation-domain command-line tool with GUI siblings, standards references, and cross-platform binary distribution. Its formula is niche, but it gives archivists a scriptable way to enforce metadata and checksum conventions on audio collections.

### Timeline

- 2010: v1.1.0 tag appears in the official Git repository.
- 2017: v1.3.x tags appear in the official Git repository.
- 2020: Date-based v20.05 and v20.08 releases appear.
- 2024: v24.01, v24.05, and v24.10 releases appear.
- 2026: MediaArea page lists BWF MetaEdit 26.01.

### Related projects

- MediaInfo, MediaConch, MediaTrace, QCTools, AVI MetaEdit, MOV MetaEdit, DVAnalyzer, RAWcooked, and DVRescue are listed alongside BWF MetaEdit in MediaArea's project navigation.
- FADGI and the Library of Congress are important institutional sources for the guidelines and original funding context.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/MediaArea/BWFMetaEdit>
- <https://mediaarea.net/BWFMetaEdit>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bwfmetaedit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/bwfmetaedit.yml)


## Sources

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- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
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- cross-ecosystem install command graph