Although music streaming platforms add new users every day (in the second quarter of this year Spotify had achieved the not inconsiderable figure of 299 million users worldwide), there are still people who prefer to continue using MP3 players , such as An example could be the case of the popular iPod developed by Apple.
As you probably know, a file with the .mp3 extension is characterized as one of the most common audio files, created by Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), and that uses a compression algorithm in order to reduce the total size of the file. file.
It is commonly known as a “lossy” format, because it is an irreversible compression, in such a way that some of the original data from the source is lost during the compression process. Despite this, it is perfectly possible to continue to have good quality MP3 music files, but at a relatively low size.
If you collect different MP3 files, especially from widely disparate sources, it is quite likely that the ID3 tags are not filled in properly. You may be wondering what this label is and what it consists of. The truth is that an ID3 tag includes information about the MP3, such as the artist, album, year and genre , among other interesting aspects.
However, sometimes ID3 tags may have some blank spaces, when in fact they could provide quite valuable information, especially if we love to have our digital music well organized. We explain how to edit ID3 tags easily, and without too many complications.
How to fill in ID3 tags with a media player
First we must open our favorite multimedia player . It doesn’t have to be Media Player, it can also be iTunes or even any other music service. Now we must select the MP3 files that you want to edit . The truth is that most programs allow the option of easily dragging any file that is not in the library.
An interesting option, especially if you like to do things right, is to download an image of the album art whose song you are going to edit, which you can easily search on image services such as Google or Bing Images.
Now we must place ourselves on top of the MP3 file that we want to edit, inside the multimedia player, and click on it with the right button. Although everything will depend on the player we are using, the vast majority require a right-click. Then we must look for the option ‘Get information’ in iTunes or ‘Edit file’ in Windows Media Player.
In the case of an MP3 file from a legitimate source, in Windows Media Player it is possible to select the option ‘Search album information’, which will normally fill in the details of the selected music automatically.
It is time to edit the information of our MP3s . It is perfectly possible to edit files such as “year”, “artist” or “album”, which we can also edit in batches, to save time. If you want to do it like this, you just have to select all the MP3s to edit, and select the edit option.
Once the tags have been edited, we will only have to play the MP3 files to make sure that the information has been edited correctly.
