The music industry is racing towards streamed distribution, but many of us have built up sizeable music collections. I have tips for both PC and Mac users. Before you get hands on with your audio files, you should do a little thinking. A clear and simple music folder structure makes library management far easier. Time spent reorganizing your files and folders now will be repeatedly paid back over the coming years. I recommend creating a top-level Music folder in your Windows media library, with sub-folders for each Artist in the collection. In each artist folder, create sub-folders for each release. Each release folder includes the audio tracks and cover artwork named folder. In this scenario, you might prefer to split your folders accordingly, with for example MP3 and Lossless sub-folders tucked under the top-level Music folder. This configuration requires you to run separate Artist and Release folder trees in the lower levels of the hierarchy, but it does allow you to restrict apps to specific file types.


How to edit Music Metadata on Windows 10
Tag Your Music
Metadata is a quintessential part and parcel of digital data. Be it a webpage with content or a media file, all of them come with a metadata tag. The Metadata tag gives a brief introduction to the type of data it is describing. In order to simplify the things, let us equate metadata with a label on a jar, a label that tells you whats inside the jar. Local music files on Windows PC come with album art and metadata description. The details include song name, artist name and even genre. While this information is usually accurate sometimes the metadata is wrong. Thankfully just like a ton of other things in the Windows ecosystem, the Music metadata can also be edited, and yes, we will tell you how. I find this to be the best way to edit music metadata without having to use any third party services or apps. Click on details, and now you should be able to see metadata fields that can be edited.
Edit album art or information
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Learn more here. You can update the album art and metadata information like song name, artist name, or genre for files you added to Google Play or for music in your My Library section. You can edit your music's metadata and album art using the Google Play Music web player. When you upload music to Google Play, album art is automatically added for MP3 files. For other file types, you can always manually add album art following the steps above. Note : If album art for a file appears in your iTunes library but not on Google Play, it's likely that the album art was added by iTunes and wasn't included in your original music file. Google Play reads different text in the "Album Artist" field as separate albums. Try editing the "Album Artist" field so the artist is listed consistently across the songs you'd like to add to a particular album. Try editing the "Album Artist" field to something generic like "Various artists. This may happen if only the "Album" field is set.