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Drupal 7 Media

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Media Integrate, implement, and extend rich media resources such as images, videos, and audio on your Drupal 7 website with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516082
Length 260 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Leveraging audio metadata


With regards to audio, metadata has long been a useful addition which was directly associated with MP3 audio files. Back then, the MP3 format was heavily used to store audio files but it lacked a way to describe the file's content. Information such as artist name, track title, album name, year of release, and genre, are powerful assets which allow users to organize and structure their music collection. It's not just about organizing but also about providing basic data. While it's possible to name an MP3 audio file using the <artist name>-<song name>.mp3 convention, which is actually the widely used format, it's not really efficient.

ID3

With this problem among the community, came rise of the ID3 standard as a way to attach metadata to MP3 files, enabling users to tag their files, and describe their audio tracks using dedicated fields.

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You can find more information on ID3 tags at http://id3.org, http://getid3.sourceforge.net, and http://en.wikipedia...

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