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July 2008 - Posts

• Musical Metadata, Part 5 - Musical Genre Can Be Tricky.

  Genre can be a tricky piece of metadata to populate accurately. All MP3 files have a metadata tag known as Genre. The genre is the type or category of music for the song in question. Is it rock or country, classical or blues? Unless you keep it very simple, Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 11:31 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: metadata

• Musical Metadata, Part 4 - Dealing with artist name issues.

  Today I will continue my series on musical metadata by discussing the various issues involved in managing one specific piece of metadata: artist name. The artist name is the moniker of the performer of the song contained in the MP3 file. First of all, Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:40 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: metadata

• Musical Metadata, Part 3 - Automated Metadata Population

  Be careful about automatically populating your metadata from online databases because the information is not consistent, nor is it always accurate. In the first two installments of this series 1 , 2 , we discussed how metadata can impact the usability Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 12:44 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: metadata

• Musical Metadata, Part 2 - If the Music is the Data...

  This is a the second part of a multi-part series on metadata for MP3 music files such as those used in iPods and other portable music players. Part 1 can be found here . So, the music is the data... which begs the question, what is the metadata? Getting Read More... Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 9:52 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: metadata

• Musical Metadata, Part 1

  I wrote a series of popular blog posts about metadata and MP3 files for a previous blog (which has since been mismanaged by its owner and the content is no longer available). Since that is the case, and I recently upgraded my iPod to a 160 GB version Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 1:40 PM by cmullins | 2 Comments Filed under: metadata