![]() ![]() I have 28 different genre tags, and have even made up my own (such as “Pure Pop” - Beatlesque pop that is too mellow for power pop). Add to the fact that there are multiple subgenres - surf punk, dream pop, baroque pop, indie rock, post-punk, shoegaze - and you start to realize what a mess this could become.ĭon’t worry too much about the genre tag, unless you want to create playlists of your favorite genre of music. One person’s definition of rock may be alternative to another. (Most of the time the album artist will be the same as the artist.) About that Genre Tag…Īh, genres. This way I can create a playlist of all Tom Petty songs, regardless of whether he was solo or with the Heartbreakers. For example, I’ve labeled all Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers albums with the album artist “Tom Petty,” since he had several solo albums as well. Add Album Artist this is important when you want to listen to one artist who may have been in several bands. While you’re at it, go ahead and add things such as disc number (90% of your albums will be only 1 disc, so it’s disc 1 of 1). For example, use “Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers” all the time, not “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” or even “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.” Many mp3 players will see these as different artists, which will mess up your playlists (more on that later). Wikipedia is also a good resource most popular groups have a discography entry that lists what songs are on each album and what year they were released.īe sure that you consistently type the names of the artists in the artist field. One good resource for finding missing song and album information is, which lists entire discographies for almost any artist who has released an album. You may have to listen to the lyrics of the song and Google it to find out what the name of the song is. Others, such as missing song names, will be more difficult to retrieve. Some mp3 tags such as track number and artist will be easy to fix. I use MusicBee, which doubles as a great mp3 player if iTunes is not your thing. Luckily, there are tools that can help you with this, many times as a batch so you don’t have to do it individually. The key is to fill in as much of these as possible for each mp3. There are other fields such as disc number (for multi-disc sets), composer, conductor, album artist and a comments field, but more about that later. These are called ID3 tags, and they describe each song using such fields as: Step 1: Fill in missing mp3 tagsĮach mp3 file has metadata associated with it - that is, information about the file. Is your mp3 collection a mess? Do you not know what album a song came from, much less what the name of the song is? Can you not make decent playlists? Here’s how to bring sense to your mp3 collection. ![]() But I’ve spent years fine-tuning my mp3 tags, and I think I have it down to a science. Each album should be in its own folder and contain a single image file.My house is a mess and I can’t remember where I put my sunglasses, but my mp3 collection is close to immaculate.Ĭall it an attempt to bring order to some part of my life. If album artwork is saved in the album folder instead of embedded in the files, it must be in JPG or GIF format and named folder.xxx (e.g., folder.jpg or folder.gif).iOS devices support album artwork up to 320kb in size with no resolution limit.Maximum resolution for embedded artwork is 1024 x 1024.Artwork embedded into the music files must be in one of the following formats: JPG, BMP, GIF or PNG.The album art should now appear in the Sonos app. Update the music index in your Sonos app to apply these changes.The artwork is now embedded into the music files. The album art will now appear in the Artwork tab. Browse to the location of the image you've saved and click Open.Select the Artwork tab and click Add Artwork.Right click on one of the selected songs and select Get Info.Find the tracks with missing album art and select them in the list.Save the image as a JPG, BMP, GIF or PNG. Find and download the missing album art image from the Internet.If you’re using macOS 10.15 and above, you can follow these same steps in the Music app instead of iTunes.Īdding album art using iTunes or the Music app This article will show you how to embed album artwork in audio files using iTunes for macOS or Windows. If you are unable to see album art in the Sonos app but it is visible in iTunes or other applications, the artwork is likely not embedded in the audio files. ![]()
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