

If you want to join NARAS, the Recording Academy (I wrote about the Grammy submission process as well as some of the less obvious benefits of belonging to the Academy earlier this year), you need credits on 12 released songs listed in the Allmusic database (either as a songwriter or performer).You probably will be giving the publisher a wav file at some point, but mp3s are often used for pitching your song, such as for sites like MusicXRay or TAXI.

Your metadata must be entered properly in the publisher’s database in order for your royalties to be paid to them and to you.
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This is important because any music professional will use those databases to check you out and verify your claim to authorship or performance credit. You want your name to show up in the key music databases, Rovi/ Allmusic and CDDB/Gracenote as associated with that track.Metadata is important for the following reasons: Metadata has nothing to do with the file name of the mp3, it’s information that you need a music player or special editor to view and/or change. Metadata appears in iTunes when you load up your music track – hopefully instead of the dreaded “Unknown Artist: and “Track 1”. title of the album on which it was released.

Metadata, also referred to as ID3 tag for mp3 files, is the identifying information associated with your song, such as the As I have written about before, having the correct metadata associated with your music files is extremely important. This article is about music file metadata. For example, you may have heard the word used in discussions in the media about metadata associated with digital recordings of phone conversations. Metadata formats are different for different types of files. Metadata is “hidden” data in computer files that “tags” a file with certain identifying information. You’ve probably heard a lot about metadata.
