Music Tagging
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Music Tagging
Hey, it's a long shot, but I know SOMEONE out there knows how to do this. Anyways, when you make a song, and you listen to it in Windows Media Player it shows you the band name, the song title, and you can even put a picture of the album in the corner.
My band is making our EP and it'd be cool if we could do all of this. If someone could tell me this soon, that'd be awesome! We're burning our cds tomorrow, so the sooner the better!
My band is making our EP and it'd be cool if we could do all of this. If someone could tell me this soon, that'd be awesome! We're burning our cds tomorrow, so the sooner the better!
What program are you using to record? You could try messing with the properties of the actual file that is the song, but in my experience this is done by the CD duplication company. If you are doing it yourself, I'm pretty sure the answer is going to depend on what programs you are using for what.
PS: Congrats! I'm going to be making a similar announcement pretty soon.
PS: Congrats! I'm going to be making a similar announcement pretty soon.
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For every media player, you'd need to change it manually. Unless your album is legally licensed, registered, and/or publicly released, then you can probably just right click the file and let the internet do it's job finding the information.
For media player:
if you have an image file for your album, put it in the same folder as that MP3, and if the file name matches the artist and/or the album, then it'll automatically associate the image with the file.
For iTunes:
Right click the song
Get Info>Artwork>Add
Then it'll automatically set it as the album artwork
For Samsung Media Studio
Right click song
Properties>Song Info
Then click under the blue square where it says "change"
(although, i highly doubt anyone has this)
For media player:
if you have an image file for your album, put it in the same folder as that MP3, and if the file name matches the artist and/or the album, then it'll automatically associate the image with the file.
For iTunes:
Right click the song
Get Info>Artwork>Add
Then it'll automatically set it as the album artwork
For Samsung Media Studio
Right click song
Properties>Song Info
Then click under the blue square where it says "change"
(although, i highly doubt anyone has this)
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EDIT: I think the following is approximately how it works but I am not entirely sure
You need to get your CD's unique ID listed in whichever public CD database that Windows Media Player consults. I think this database is maintained by Microsoft, and I don't know if there is any way to get your stuff into it.
Apple has a similar database for Itunes. I think it is also difficult to get into.
You may have to go with freedb or MusicBrainz instead. Those don't (to the best of my knowledge) work for Windows Media Player, but they work for a lot of other players.
You need to get your CD's unique ID listed in whichever public CD database that Windows Media Player consults. I think this database is maintained by Microsoft, and I don't know if there is any way to get your stuff into it.
Apple has a similar database for Itunes. I think it is also difficult to get into.
You may have to go with freedb or MusicBrainz instead. Those don't (to the best of my knowledge) work for Windows Media Player, but they work for a lot of other players.
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I'm not entirely sure that's accurate, James. I know when I make compilation CDs via iTunes, the tracks are tagged using the ID3 tags such that my home stereo can tell me the name/artist combo for the currently playing track. I'm pretty sure at least some of the information can be embedded into the CD when burning without needing to register the CD to a CDDB of any sort.James Paige wrote:You need to get your CD's unique ID listed in whichever public CD database that Windows Media Player consults. I think this database is maintained by Microsoft, and I don't know if there is any way to get your stuff into it.
Apple has a similar database for Itunes. I think it is also difficult to get into.
You may have to go with freedb or MusicBrainz instead. Those don't (to the best of my knowledge) work for Windows Media Player, but they work for a lot of other players.
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I know there is some sort of CD Text standard that some CD burners can use to store track names. I did not know that iTunes used it, or that it was widely supported by modern CD players. That is cool.Inferior Minion wrote:I'm not entirely sure that's accurate, James. I know when I make compilation CDs via iTunes, the tracks are tagged using the ID3 tags such that my home stereo can tell me the name/artist combo for the currently playing track. I'm pretty sure at least some of the information can be embedded into the CD when burning without needing to register the CD to a CDDB of any sort.
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Ok, let me put this to rest.
Easiest player to do this is in winamp. Just add the tracks into your playlist, right click them, and then click 'view file info'. You can edit the id3 tags there (just 'v1' is necessary). Id3 tags stay with the file itself, it has very little to do with the internet (although yes, programs like itunes probably use these tags to make the file search-able by varying criteria.
Easiest player to do this is in winamp. Just add the tracks into your playlist, right click them, and then click 'view file info'. You can edit the id3 tags there (just 'v1' is necessary). Id3 tags stay with the file itself, it has very little to do with the internet (although yes, programs like itunes probably use these tags to make the file search-able by varying criteria.
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Sure, that is the easiest way to edit ID3 tags on MP3 files-- but the question (as I understood it) was about conventional audio CDs.Artimus Bena wrote:Ok, let me put this to rest.
Easiest player to do this is in winamp. Just add the tracks into your playlist, right click them, and then click 'view file info'. You can edit the id3 tags there (just 'v1' is necessary). Id3 tags stay with the file itself, it has very little to do with the internet (although yes, programs like itunes probably use these tags to make the file search-able by varying criteria.