Over the years my music collection has grown to a giant mess of competing informal standards on top of ID3 to handle tagging situations that it doesn't seem as though ID3 was designed to handle.

I’m a tagger. When I hear a song that’s catchy, or just familiar, I need to know who’s singing it and what it’s called. For this reason, I install music tagging apps on almost every smartphone I use.

Adding tags to media files can be a grueling process that no one wants to do. But at times, it must be done, so how can we do it without taking up a lot of our precious time? It’s simple, really. Get ...

Thanks largely to the iPhone, Shazam, a mobile music discovery application, is on its way to becoming a household verb. Here’s how it works: You hear a song you want to identify — whether on the radio ...

I just got my 1st iPod ever and I'd like to understand mp3 tagging. Actually tagging music files in general. For a few years, I've had approximately 25,000 music files sitting on my external hard ...

Song tags play a major role in Windows Media Player while sorting, displaying, and categorizing the music. That is because Windows Media Player does not read the file names of the songs, but it ...

NEW YORK — In an effort to ensure that artists and copyright holders are paid for the sale of their works online, the music industry’s two main trade orgs Monday unveiled a standardized electronic ...