bandGeek

When you put up mp3s for fans to download you want them to remember who you are when your song comes up in their play list a week from now. Nothing shouts unprofessional like a track that comes up with a title of ‘02_ouraweomesong’ and no artist.

The key to avoiding this artistic ambiguity is meta data. This is basically data about data. In this case we’re adding information about your song to your song file.

If you use iTunes, select your band’s song from your library, right click, and select “Get Info”. From here you can edit the track name, artist, album, track number, as well as lots of other information about your song. The more you can provide the better.

You can also do your tagging through the file system in Windows. Go to the folder that contains the mp3s you want to tag, right click on the mp3, select “Properties”. In the Properties window select the Summary tab and hit the Advanced… button. From here you can edit various data about the track.

After you’ve made these changes to your files, then you can put your music up for download and this data will stay with the file.  Now your listener has a band name and song title to associate with the music they downloaded.