![]() The mp3 files were displaying Title, Track#, Artist, etc uniformly when I viewed them in Windows’ File Explorer – but strangely enough this wasn’t the case in VLC’s “View Playlist” mode. I created the metadata tags for some albums I have located on an external HD usually attached to my Linux system, and was later glad to see the tags survive a journey to my Windows PC (the former has more RAM and the latter which is my movie server/streamer has a better sound quality). Note: To edit album art, right click on the picture or VLC icon in the bottom-right corner of the Media Information screen. Close the window and what you entered will be saved automatically. The steps to access and edit ID3 audio tags are quite simple, but here are the steps with screenshots: ![]() ![]() ![]() One quick perk of this information within VLC playlists is that it allows you to sort your MP3 files according to the ID3 tags helping you play the songs that you want in a certain order. The same feature can be seen in Windows Explorer as well. If you navigate to your playlist and view it as a detailed list, then all the metadata information is visible. For example: In VLC, you can see the “Artist – Song Title” data used in the title bar of the Player. It is used by different players in different ways. ID3 tags allow you to view different information about a song and it is primarily used by MP3 files exclusively. You can simply view or input your own values in the text fields of these corresponding metadata information. It brings up a simple pop up where you can view all the information like MP3 song title, artist, album, date, genre, track number, now playing, publisher, copyright, encoded by, comments and album art. The quickest way to view/edit it is by using the CTRL + I shortcut key on your PC or by navigating to Tools > Media Information. Maybe I'll try another program in hopes it's faster and I can avoid swapping the drives.If you want to view and edit ID3 audio or MP3 tags in VLC Media Player, then it has been really made simple. What I may do is remove the hard drive internal to the network drive, and connect it directly inside my PC. Either the program I'm using, or the fact it's going through a switch through the "network", takes long to list all the files in a directory and then renaming them seems to cause the program to freeze. Sadly, all my MP3s are on network drives. Some people make the file name so long that I've lost the file name when copying them over to a network drive or into a sub directory. Unfortunately not all ID3 tags have the track number, however, I've decided to change what I can to Artist - Track Number - Song Title. I would strip the garbage from them, change lowercase, and make the file name simply Artist - Song Title Recently I realized many discographies have live albums, and, when I play them on my computer, or want to sort them as they are on the CD, I can't because they no longer contain the track number. Some time ago, I used Magic File Renamer to rename the files. I can understand if an entire discography has file names of a specific format, but each directory is different. My gripe is the people who rip the CDs have horrible file naming convention.
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