These are called ID3 tags. One place where you can read up on them is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3#Editing_ID3_tags
Usually your CD ripper will connect to a DB and prepopulate your ID3 tags for you. What CD ripper are you using? Also, media library applications, like Winamp and Windows Media Player will let you edit your ID3 tags and even make global changes. I know you can have your music stored in files and folders based on the ID3 tags, but I'm not sure you can go the other way, such as update your ID3 tags based on the folders and files where your music is stored. I know they can use this data to populate empty ID3 tags, so maybe you can do what you want with one of these applications. If you're using Windows, you can edit your ID3 tabs through Windows Explorer. Just use alt+enter to bring up the properties view and control+tab over to the tab that has your ID3 tags. In addition to Winamp and Windows Media Player, there are other applications you can use to make global changes to your ID3 tags. For example, in Ubuntu, I use a tool called EasyTag. On 11/01/12 14:58, Jerry Howell wrote: > Hello all, > > How can I learn about meta data as it relates to CD information on my > computor. > > My wife has a mp3 player that uses the meta data, not the file and folder > names to display content. > > I would like to be able to produce my own meta data for these Casettes I > recorded to my PC and then sent to the player. > > I thought if I named the main folder as the artist, the subfolder as the > album, and the files by the song name, that was all I had to do. Apparently > metadata is something different. > > Thanks for any information, > > > Jerry Howell > http://www.howellmobility.com > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
