Computer FAQs & Tips

When you play music from an mp3 file, sometime you’ve seen the information displaying in the player which is not the same as it appears in the file name. It might be showing as “untitled” or any other name in the player such as Windows Media Player, iTune, Winamp, Real Player, etc.

Such player mentioned are reading information from the tag embeded within the mp3 file. These information are written by the producer. However you can change them, correct them or name them into some thing else you preferred or even in your own language!

There are many tools available or you can even user the built-in function in your default media player such as Windows Media Player, iTune, Winamp. But those functions might not be very flexible and very limited. I personally preferred a separate tool for my music tag management “Mp3tag“. I find it the best tool I’ve ever encountered sofar. It’s free, simple, light and feature rich.. hey hey and.. no ads, no spy-ware or the likes!

Follow this article, I will walk you through and show you how it is done

Requirement

• Software tool Mp3tag
• One mp3 file

Steps

• Download Mp3tag
• Install it in your computer
  when you install, make sure you tick to enable “Context menu” in windows explorer
• When done, right click on your mp3 file and select “Mp3tag” from the context menu
• Main windows will appear similar to this screenshot below.
  
• The screen above, showing the mp3 file with an empty tag information.
• Now go a head and fill in the information you preferred
  Tips:
  * Make sure you select file from the right panel before you start punching in the data
  * You can add image to your mp3 file as well, e.g. the artist picture
  * You can drag picture and drop in the picture box
• Below is another screenshot with filled tag information
  
• Now Click on Save button straight away (good practice)

Output

Now you can play your MP3 file with your favorite media player. Here, I play it with Window Media Player

Done!

Last but not least, you can use Mp3tag with other file format as well. It supports the following formats

• Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
• Monkey’s Audio (ape)
• Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
• MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
• Musepack (mpc)
• Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
• OptimFROG (ofr)
• OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
• Speex (spx)
• Tom’s Audio Kompressor (tak)
• True Audio (tta)
• Windows Media Audio (wma)
• WavPack (wv)

Happy tagging :)

Site and References

• Artist picture used in this article was taken from Wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_Sisamouth)

There are serveral tools out there. Professional might use a commercial product for support and service quality purposes. For ordinary or home user, I’d recommend a simple and free tool with a minimal efforts.
This article will show you the most covenience way and simple to convert your Audio CD to MP3 format.

First of all you will need Window Media Player version 10 or above.
If you don’t have this in installed in your PC, download a copy from Microsoft Website.

Get Ready

Now do some settings and configuration for the ripping job.

• Open your windows media player
• Click drop-down icon (top right)
• Click Tools > Options
• When Options dialog open, select Rip Music tab
  

  

• Chose location where you want MP3 files go to
• In format drop-down list, select MP3
• From Audio quality, slide to the right to select quality you prefered. I’d recommend 192 kbps, which’s good enough for playback on any portable mp3 player
• Click Apply

Converting (Ripping)Track from CD

• Insert CD in the drive
• Open Window Media Player (if not already open)
• Press Ctrl + O to open file
• Broswer to CD drive
• In File type drop-down list, select Any File(*)
• Now all .cda file display. Select file(s) you want to convert
• Click Open
• Audio might start playing automatically, press Stop button
• Now click on Rip tab
• Select file you want to rip or select all files
  
• Click Rip Music
• It might take minutes dependes on how fast your computer is.

That’s it. Easy, Simple and Free right! :)