Metadata: how to use same data on multiple tracks in a project.

Question

I need to figure out how to cut and paste metadata from one audio file to the next. I am transferring 500 vinyl albums to digital. I would like to be able to fill in the ID3 and other metadata that is the same for the 10 to 12 songs on the disk and have that information transfer to each of the files I ultimately turn into mp3. How can I do that. Essentially, artist, album, recording data, comments, genre, and copyright are all the same.
My workflow is to copy all of the tracks from the master recording of the disk into individual audio files and save those as the MP3. If I enter metadata manually in the audio track, it is saved with the MP3 and read by iTunes when converted. However, I want to be able to create one metadata -- I guess template -- with the data that is the same and have that automatically transferred from the master to the cuts.
Is it possible?

Answer 1

Not in Audition, I'm afraid. But there's certainly software that will allow extensive metadata manipulation of ID3 tags available, possibly for just the reasons you are mentioning. You have to bear in mind that Audition is essentially an editor, and MP3s are just a saving possibility, and not the format it natively works in, so it's not extensively set up to deal with them in the way you want; not it's job, really!