You make your set! Great! It´s all done ? No! * - I don't want to teach anything, just remember! Metadata: What is music metadata?
Music metadata is the information included in audio files used to identify, label and present audio content.
Metadata includes information like artist, genre, label, song titles, album name and track numbers cover, and many more.
For you like Dj, the most important : Set Name, show name, (or your name like Dj) , genre. (optional cover. Yes you can add your cover to your set, independent of the extinction - Mp3, AAC, Wav, etc .)
The importance of metadata! Streaming in platforms, (like radios), rely on metadata.It’s more important than ever. Without metadata your tracks would have no context - just anonymous files in the sea of data online. It is through the information in the metadata that a radio sends the information of what it is playing, and not by the name of the file.
One example of metadata on air : Name of Dj - Show name - Genre
How to edit metadata?
There are many programs and ways to edit metadata.
Some hearing programs (players) can do this!
*(this is only examples , you use what is best for you)
Free programs (players) , when is possible add / edit your metadata :VLC , foobar2000 -
VLC
(VLC you can edit the basic, but no possible Add the cover) For example two Sets with metadata in VLC:
Foobar2000 you can find here:
For example ,Sets with metadata in Foobar2000:
Tip : For Add your cover in your set with foolbar2000, fellow this steps:
- Open your file
- Right mouse over the track
- Tagging
- Attach pictures
(manage attached pictures, works also - don´t forgot save ! ).
FREE metadata editor.
(Were some free examples:)
MusicBrainz Picard is a multi-platform open-source tool that lets you easily add metadata to your music files that miss them. It supports almost all the music file formats available out there and so your files don’t necessarily have to be in MP3 format in order to edit the metadata
MP3Tag is a popular app to tag MP3s and it supports batch processing as well.
That means if you have a number of music files sitting on your computer without any metadata, you
Can load them all into this tool and let it find and add the required metadata for you.
It supports batch tag-editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE
ID3 Tag Editor is a Unicode supported app to tag MP3s and you can use it to add missing metadata values to your files in various languages. It also lets you add a cover art to your MP3 fileswhich remains embedded in the main file itself.
4 metadata mistakes to avoid
1. Triple-check your spelling and formatting
Make sure to always spell your track and artist names correctly.
Do not add multiple contributors as a list in a single field 2. Enter the correct release language. The release language field indicates the language and character set of your release.
3.Don’t to put many information Metadata that doesn’t give meaningful information isn’t useful and doesn’t contribute positively to the quality of your release on streaming services. 4. Pay attention to your album artwork
Album artwork absolutely must be consistent with the metadata entered for the release. You have to give the artwork the same level attention to detail as the rest of the information about your release.
How to get your metadata right - just for reference
Here’s a full list of the data you need to confirm before you can distribute your music successfully:
Track Title: the name of your Set
Genre: the primary genre of your Set
Sub-genre: the secondary genre
Primary Artist: the main artist on the SET
Featured Artists: any other artists featured on the SET
Cover - The cover from your Set
Composer: The person who wrote or contributed music for the Set
Publisher: The publisher representing the composer. Enter the composer name again if there is no publisher.
Producers: the producer(s) credit on the SET
Additional Contributors: Anyone else that worked on that track that should be credited
Explicit Content: indicates whether the track contains explicit content
Lyrics Language: the language of the sung lyrics
Lyrics publisher: The publisher representing the lyricist/lyrics contributor
Composition Owner: The owner of the composition rights
Year of Composition: The year the track was composed
Master Recording Owner: the owner of the sound recording
Year of Recording: The year the recording took place.
Release Language: The language of the release itself. Even if you are intending to distribute your release in a different country or territory the release language must be the language of the metadata you are entering.
(This list might seem excessive, just for reference!)