Comments on: What are ID3 Tags in MP3 Files?

By: Richard Farrar

Richard Farrar — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:03:15 +0000

Very well put, thanks for your input to the thread Derek.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:02:06 +0000

Hi folks

Where does tag data come from? How come some tracks end up wrongly tagged?

1) someone has to rip the music in the first place. I use CDEX. It attempts to look up the CD in an online database, such as freedb or musicbrainz, and that’s based on the # of tracks and the track lengths. So sometimes it finds nothing; I have to trpe in track data (which I can upload to freedb afterwards). Sometimes a wrong CD because the lengths are similar – usually it gives a choice and you have to be pretty dumb to pick the wrong one!. Sometimes the track info is wrong because of some lemming who typed the wrong stuff and uploaded it. All of which can end you with the wrong info in your tags.

2) when you play your track, your player may ignore your album art, and it may go and look up an internet version instead – and that might be different.

3) maybe you have got album art, track art, composer art, performer art embedded in your tracks. No saying which image your chosen player will display!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:34:26 +0000

Hi Ken, That's a very good question, but unfortunately not easy to answer. Does the artwork appear if you play the file in a different device? Not all players handle artwork in the same way, plus different tags can sometimes be used for adding album artwork. I explain a little more about these sort of problems in another article of mine: Alternative ID3 Tags for Adding Artwork to MP3 Files

By: Kenn Beh

Kenn Beh — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:31:42 +0000

How come some pictures of front cover of the tag are displayed in my MP3 player and some are not even when confirmed the file is tagged?

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:28:45 +0000

Hi, MP3s can actually have multiple album images embedded in them, although most playback software will only display one image, which sounds like what you could be experiencing. I've got another 2 posts on the subject, which may help you out: http://www.richardfarrar.com/embedding-album-art-in-mp3-files/ http://www.richardfarrar.com/alternative-id3-tags-for-adding-artwork-to-mp3-files/

By: Cornix

Cornix — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:16:22 +0000

Hey there, I got a problem!
I am composing songs for hobby, I added an Album Art to them.
Now the Problem: If I send the Song to a friend, the Album Cover of another Album instead of mine shows up in his Player!

Can you help?

By: Arvindbhargawa

Arvindbhargawa — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:35:23 +0000

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By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:32:46 +0000

You can’t actually convert an MP3 to ID3 as an MP3 is an audio file and ID3 are just extra information bits WITHIN the MP3 file. If you want to add ID3 information to an existing MP3 file, then you will need to use an ID3 tag editor like those mentioned above to work on your MP3 file.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:17:13 +0000

how can you covert a mp3 to a id3?

By: Batch Add Tags to Mp3 files with Mp3tag, a Freeware | Softtricks

Batch Add Tags to Mp3 files with Mp3tag, a Freeware | Softtricks — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:37:27 +0000

[...] information like tag, name etc. In order to add such extra attributes you’ve to put these in ID3 format at the beginning or end portion of audio [...]