For example, I record a monthly podcast for Zen Internet to a script that they provide, so I add their name as the artist, as it’s essentially their creative work: If you’d like to learn more about embedding images into your podcasts and what image types and sizes to use, then check out my previous post on: Embedding Album Art in MP3 Files. However, while this tag will help to connect the user with your podcast, it’s unlikely to serve much use when trying to search for the podcast later on. As the saying goes a picture speaks a thousand words, and this tag gives you the option to brand your podcast in glorious colour, forever etching it in the user’s memory. The Internet Monthly – June 2009 Cover ArtĪnother important tag to consider is the cover art tag. This is undoubtedly the most important tag, being the title of your podcast episode and is a fundamental tag that should not be missed.īy way of example, the title I use for my monthly podcast, is the generic title of the podcast with the month and year appended: The first is to provide general information about the podcast that the user is likely to want to know, while the second is to enable the user to search through a large collection of tracks at a later date and hopefully filter out your podcast via its tags. Just include the bare minimum that users are likely to need, any more and you’re wasting your own time and wasting space in the MP3 file storing useless junk. However, you could fill up your tracks with 50 different tags or more, but who is this really going to benefit? Not you for certain it’ll probably take you longer to add all of these superfluous tags than it did to record the podcast in the first place.īrevity is the key. the track title, artist name etc.įor a fuller and more in-depth description of ID3 tags, check out my previous post: What are ID3 Tags in MP3 Files? Essential Tagsĭownloaded podcasts will already have ID3 tag data buried within them, but if you produce your own podcasts, you have free reign to add whatever ID3 tags you wish. The ID3 tag data describes the audio data of the MP3, e.g. This descriptive data is sometimes referred to as metadata, which is data describing other data. ID3 tags are a simple and convenient way of embedding descriptive data about an MP3 track within the track itself. So, out of this vast array of tags what are the key tags that you should consider using in your podcasts? However, in addition to the tag information in the example above, the ID3 tag standard can support over 80 different tags. Such information is stored in the MP3 file itself using ID3 tags. This information typically includes the cover art for the track, the album, artist and track name, its genre and track number. Whenever you play a podcast on your portable MP3 player or PC, you will invariably see a host of information about the track on the player’s screen. If you produce your own podcasts, you could embed an array of these descriptive ID3 tags in your podcast files, but which tags should you really be using? MP3 files can have a range of ID3 tags buried within them providing additional data about the track, such as artist name for example.
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