Tagging your music in preparation for distribution
Before uploading your music online, you should correctly tag it. What’s a tag? If you navigate to a song on your computer or phone, you’ll see a list of information about the song, such as the name, track number, album, artist, and so on. That information is imprinted upon the file. These are tags, also known as metadata. In the following screenshot, you can see tag information on songs:
Figure 14.1 – Song tags
You can add custom tags to your songs. The easiest way to do so is with tagging software. I recommend the free tag editor Mp3tag for your songs, which is available at www.mp3tag.de/en.
When you open up Mp3tag, you’ll see a screen like the following:
Figure 14.2 – Mp3tag
Mp3tag allows you to add tags for your songs such as Title, Artist, Album, and a cover image. The cover image should be square. The image you use for the cover should be a small file size. The...
