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Chapter 8:
The MusicInfo Utility and Wizard
Music Information is detail about a song that you get from the album cover: album name,
artist name, song title, etc. This information is added to the audio files and stored in the
Music Library to make it available for display on the TerraPlayer touchscreen. And so,
you can still find the song details in the TerraTouch OS on the touchscreen, without
keeping the CD or album covers around.
Since Music information is data about an audio file, and an audio file is basically a song
converted into a data format, it is sometimes called ‘metadata’—in other words, data
about data. This metadata is stored with the audio file in the form of an ID3 tag. An ID3
tag is a standard format for attaching metadata to an audio file.
The MusicInfo Wizard scans your audio file collection pulls Music Information in bulk
from a data source on the Internet, and writes the ID3 tags for each audio file. So it does
the work for you automatically.
However, there may be CDs in your collection for which no Music Information is
available. So, sometimes you will need to add that information yourself. The MusicInfo
Utility can be used to manually enter or change Music Information stored in an ID3 tag
on per song or album basis.
Music Information
The Music Library stores the following music information for each track:
Music Information (ID3 Tag)
Data Field Definition
File Name of audio file.
Artist Recording artist.
Album Name of the album which the track is from.
Track Position of the track on the album, or song number.
Song Song title.
Genre Genre of track.
Year Original release date of track.
Duration Length of the track.
Internet Connection and the MusicInfo Utility and Wizard
It is recommended that you log in and maintain a live Internet connection during a
session with the MusicInfo Utility, so it can be used to update Music Information
downloaded from a data source on the web. In addition, the Wizard requires an Internet
connection in order to download album covers for your existing files.