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hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Jan. 31 2005, 21:16 A suggestion to anyone making any sort of mp3 to upload/link here: Please put your name, nickname at least and/or email/web address in the "Artist" or "Composer" fields of the Properties of the file. I'm catching up on fan tracks I have downloaded over the months, and I have no idea who did them since they did not identify them at all. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: Feb. 01 2005, 03:47 I imagine that many people who did not label the tracks did so because they didn't know they could. I didn't know you could until very recently. One option is to label them yourself with the file name: calling it "artist name-song name.mp3" when recording or downloading. Still, it is a good idea to label them through the Properties menu. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Feb. 01 2005, 05:14 That's a good idea. The names of my song files are one-worded to keep storage and linking simple, but I tag them accordingly. But indeed, others may not even know how to do it. I believe Media Player can alter the ID3 tags of MP3 files, and I'm sure Winamp does it. Maybe someone can provide a quick tutorial? -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: Feb. 01 2005, 05:35 Well, on Windows XP it goes like this: Right-click your song file and go to properties. Click the 'Summary' tab to see a window that tells you the 'Title' 'Author' and several other things. The only thing you can edit there is the title, however. Click the 'Advanced' button below all the information and the window will change to a big list. Simply click to the left of the words 'artist', 'song title' etc and you'll be able to type in all you want. Then of course you click 'OK' or 'Apply' to make the changes. I hope that explained it well enough. I think some programs will do this automatically or in an easier way. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Feb. 01 2005, 06:02 Right! It works exactly like that on Windows 2000, too. I just tested it here. I have Windows 98 at home, and iirc, it doesn't work like that there. But whomever has W2k or above can do that just fine! -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Feb. 01 2005, 14:07 Normally the encoding software offers the option - I've certainly never used an MP3 encoder which doesn't allow the addition of ID3 information, but I haven't used many of those which may now be popular on Windows (only WinAmp). I would second Hiawatha's plea - I was on the verge of posting something about it myself. I've amassed a huge collection of MP3 files of this kind in recent years, and if there's no artist info, I tend to have no idea whose some of them are when I uncover them after a year or so! Sometimes the sound gives the creator away, but at other times, I'm left clueless... I try and add the info as soon as I download the files now, but sometimes even then I come unstuck (like if I download loads in one go, then don't play them for a little while)...so please put your name on your work! Back to top

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