My music CD do not show the artist/song/genre properly. What is a music tag and can I change it?
An audio music tag or an ID3 tag is a very popular audio file data tagging format in active use by software and hardware developers around the world. ID3 tags are supported in software such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, YME, MusicMatch and hardware players like the iPod, Creative Zen, Toshiba Gigabeat and Sony Walkman. An ID3 tag is a data container within an MP3 audio file stored in a prescribed format. This data commonly contains the Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file. Note: If you happen to rename the file with the correct tag (e.g. artist name and song title) on your pc, this does not change the tag of the music. The tag can only be changed internally. Some reasons that you may not have the correct tags on your music: • You have saved streamed music on your pc; • You have ripped (i.e. the process of copying the audio and/or video data from one media form or storage device to a different one) music from your favorite CDs; • Your CD is old an
