Tag. You're It!

For some of us who have a wide collection of MP3 songs, you've probably experienced the different forms of description being displayed on your MP3 player. Depending on the sources for your songs, you've probably noticed that some problems such as different spelling for the same artist ('e' supposed to be 'i') or album titles. For people like me who prefer to 'standardize' things, having such inconsistencies just dun make me feel good.

So now, for those who share the same liking as me, you can do sumthing about it. It involves editing the MP3 file. It's called ID3 tagging. What is ID3 tagging you might ask? Well, ID3 tagging means inputting information to your MP3 songs with details such as Artist , Album, Year, Track Number, Genre and Title. So from here, you can input all the necessary information that you want your files to be.

You can create your own album titles, set the type of songs (pop, rock, dangdut) or even correct wrong spellings. So the next time you play your songs on the MP3 player, the information of your choice will be displayed.

How to do this? Well, the software that you can use are MusicMatch Jukebox or iTunes. It's free to try and can be downloaded here. I explain how to do it on MusicMatch Jukebox (sorry lah hor iPod lovers)

First add the song to the library (File -> Add Songs To Library)

Right click on the song

Then go to Edit -> Edit Track Info

U're on ur own from here.

However, do not be confused with the filename of the songs. It has no relation. Changing the ID3 of the file will not change the filename or vice versa.

So now, beside enjoying listening to your songs, you can also enjoy LOOKIN at it! Haha!