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#ITUNES MEDIA META DATA TV#

It can be a little tricky, and I wroteĪn entire article just about compilations.

Compilation: This tag, within the Options tab, is important if your CD is a compilation.

Genre: To be able to use smart playlists, you should fill the Genre tag.

Track number: For tracks to play sequentially, you need to have the proper track numbers.

Artist: A band, or singer, or ensemble who performs the music an author, for a book a director, or actors, for a video.

#ITUNES MEDIA META DATA TV#

Name: A track’s name, or the name of a movie, TV episode, or book.Many tags are optional, but a number of them are quite important and will help you use iTunes more effectively. For some tags you edit within the Options tab, this information isn’t stored in the media file, but actually in your iTunes library file. Note that there’s no undo option when changing tags: When you click OK, iTunes writes the new tag info to the music file on your Mac. Click OK to save it, or Cancel if you change your mind.

To change any tag, just click a field and edit the text, or delete it and type new text. Or you may want to change the Album tag for a single track to group it with a different album. For example, you may want you change the Name (the track name) or the Track Number. You select a single track when you want to change a tag that only applies to that track. (Note: I’ll show examples of tagging music files in this article, but the same procedures apply to other media types, such as videos and ebooks.) This window displays when you select a single track and press Command-I.