Use an application to query MP3 tag information to add details to your songs.
An MP3 is a compressed audio file ripped from a CD. When you play an MP3 in a music-playing application on your computer or with a portable MP3 player, you might want to see the tag information for the song, including its title, performer and track number. If you didn't tag the files manually or automatically when you ripped a CD, or if someone gave you MP3s that have missing or incomplete tags, you can query MP3 tag information from online sources and then copy the data to the MP3 files.
Instructions
1. Download an application that supports MP3 tagging, such as MediaMonkey from Mediamonkey.com; PicardTagger from Musicbrainz.org; or TuneUp from Tuneupmedia.com. Install the downloaded application on your computer.
2. Launch the MP3-tagging application.
3. Drag MP3 files from a folder on your computer into the application's window. You might also be able to click "File" and "Open" and then navigate to the MP3s you want to tag.
4. Click on MP3 files to select them, or click a command to select all of them. If you are sure of the name of a selected album or performer, you can type it in the corresponding tag field to help the application identify the songs. An online database can identify an unknown album according to a signature based on the number of tracks and the length of each track. For example, a CD of 12 songs could be distinguished from other 12-song CDs because the first track of one might be 90 seconds long, or 3 minutes on another album, and so on for each track in various permutations.
5. Pick an online site to query to identify the tracks, such as Freedb, Amazon or CD-TEXT, using the preferences settings or a pull-down menu. Then, click the command to look up tags. The application will compare any album, performer or song title information that you provide with tags in the database. Some applications compare the sound patterns of the MP3s to sound patterns in a database to get the tags. It may find the correct tracks immediately or you might be given choices that you can check manually. If the title suggests a song about butterflies, you can listen to the track to confirm that it is the butterfly song or one about dogs, for example.
6. Click "Save" to save the tags from the online service to the MP3 files when you are satisfied they are correct. This information will now display when you play the songs on your computer or with a portable MP3 player.
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