

It is also a good practice if you intend to keep the file for a long time and want the file to be self-documenting and give you information about itself. If you want the file to display information you have to add it in yourself.Īdding a description is easy to do.

That’s because the descriptive information is missing there’s nothing to display. If you create your own digital recording – such as an interview or a band recording – and play the audio file on an audio-enabled device, the player might display only the name of the file and nothing more. This blog is about embedding, how song information can be inserted into a special section of that audio file and become part of the file. Sometimes that happens because the player has an associated database, sometime that happens because the information is embedded in the file.

As you play a digital music file on an audio-enabled device such as a computer or smart phone, the audio player displays information about the song.
