Saturday, November 20, 2010

How can you change mp3/m4a data (artist, album, etc) on Windows XP?

How can you change the data of an mp3/m4a file, e.g. adding an artist and album? For what i can gather, itunes doesn't do this, as the itunes libary is a list of shortcuts and when you change details on itunes it only remembers this in the shortcut in the libary, and is you copy and paste the file to another location it doesn't have the modified details. Is it possible to change these details though windows explorer etc? or is there any safe software i can download to change this data for me?How can you change mp3/m4a data (artist, album, etc) on Windows XP?
To do a single file at a time:



Right click on file

Click Properties

Click tab Summary

Click the Advanced button (if no Advanced button and shows Simple button, skip this step)

Modify Values

Click Apply



There are many free/pay software that will also go out to servers to tag the file. Many also can do albums or batch.



I personally use Yahoo MusicMatch Jukebox. I bought a lifetime license when it was just MusicMatch. The old musicmatch is better imo. There is a free version too I believe.

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