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CDTEXT is a standard for encoding certain text fields onto a CD, including track title, performer, composer, and a short message.  While a supported standard, very few consumer CD players actually bother to implement this (it seems to be most notably used in car stereos), and only a few computer-based CD playing programs pay much […]

So…if you’ve got an mp3 or AAC, and you want to have info like the song title, artist, genre, bpm, key, etc show up in your player, you would fill in that info in the file’s ID3 tags.  It’s simply put a standard for digital music metadata.  When you rip music from a CD, most […]

ISRC is the International Standard Recording Code – it’s a unique identifier for every recording you make.  It’s unique to an artist, and the country of origin, and the year released.  You don’t need them, per se, but if you’ve got them, great.  They’re useful for tracking songs for copyright and statistical reasons.  Say your […]