3 Things You Should Know About Metadata To successfully deliver
music to a client and their listening audience, it is important
to supply the media tools collectively known as metadata. This
is the term we use to describe any secondary data that are used
to describe or organize the digital media itself (i.e. the audio
data). Most metadata are medium-specific – meaning that the
delivery method defines what the relevant metadata are, and how
they will be delivered. Here are a few of the most frequently
important points. 1. Compact Discs: CD-Text vs. Online Databases
CD-Text is an Interactive Text Transmission System that was
added to the Red Book CD-DA standard in 1996. Using CD-Text,
information like Artist Name, Album Title, and Song Title is
stored in the lead-in of a Red Book CD. CD players and CD-ROM
drives that support CD-Text can display that information during
playback. CD-Text does not supply metadata to digital media
applications like iTunes, WMP, or ripper apps because the
metadata are not embedded i