MP3 ID3 Metadata no "Tags" tag?

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  •  15-07-2023
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Question

In Windows 7, .WMA files have a property tag called "Tags" (e.g. song; music; pop;) with the use of semi-colons (i.e. ";") as the delimiter. Do .MP3 files have one? If not, it is such as pity.

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Solution

MP3 files alone contain no metadata, but you can use ID3 tags within MP3 files to support metadata.

ID3v1 contains these fields:

  • Song Title (30 characters)
  • Artist (30 characters)
  • Album (30 characters)
  • Year (4 characters)
  • Comment (30 characters)
  • Genre (1 byte, giving 256 possible Genre IDs)

ID3v1.1 Added a track number field to this.

ID3v2 adds many more fields, one of which is a user-defined text frame. This can be used for any data you want and could support a "user tags" field.

Why Windows 7 chooses not to use it, I don't know, but it doesn't matter really does it? There isn't anything you can do. What the client chooses to do with ID3 tags is up to it.

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