How To Tag MP3s So Your Fans Will Always Find You
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Make MP3s out of your own music that have the right name and ID3 tags so that your fans will always find you.
Estimated Cost: FREE
Estimated Time: 10 minutes preparation with immediate results.
Indie Guide Categories: MP3 Tools
What Do You Need to Do This
- MP3s of songs that you want to distribute (Click here for How To Encode MP3s For Maximum Playability)
- iTunes (Or an MP3 tagging tool)
- Album art for each song, or a logo image that is the same size as an album cover (If a logo is used, consider adding your website to the logo)
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Directions
Following are the instructions for Windows desktops.
1. Install the free tool Audiograbber (Windows)
2. Install the free Windows binary version of LAME encoder
Make sure to change the default settings to unzip the files for the LAME encoder into the same directory as Audiograbber, which is by default C:\audiograbber.
3. Configure Audiograbber using these instructions
a. Run the program. b. Press the MP3 button. c. Make sure Internal Encoder is chosen, with LameEnc as the selection. d. Use the following settings on this page:
- Grab to: MP3 file via intermediate WAV file. Keep the WAV file.
- Leave unchecked "Use ID3v1 Tag", "Append ID3 info to WAV File", and "Rip all tracks before encoding".
- Enable the Internal Encoder tab.
- Choose the LameEnc DLL.
- Choose Constant Bitrate, and set the slidebar to 128.
- In the Quality box, select Joint Stereo and Normal.
- In the Bitstream flags click Original.
- In the Encoder priority, choose Normal
Click OK when all these options are set.
4. Begin Converting
Once all the settings are changed, drag the WAV files from a file window into the Audiograbber program. Audiograbber will start converting them into MP3s at your chosen settings.
Next Steps
There is nothing to do after completing this.
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Tags: MP3 Tools