07.24.07

How to Edit & Embed Album-art for your MP3s

Posted in ID3 Tag, Media Players, Mp3, Mp3Tag, Softwares, Tech, Tutorials at 1:00 am by cococokie

This article shows you how to edit ID3 tag and embed album-art covers for your mp3 players (Ipod, Zen, Zune, Media Players, etc). First, you need an ID3 tag editor. I use Mp3Tag Editor, it can batch edit, rename tag/files, add album-art covers, and create playlist.

Mp3Tag Editor
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Click here to download Mp3Tag Editor (ver 2.38 supports ID3 v1/2/2.3/2.4 and APE v1/2).

Table of Contents

  1. Setting options
  2. Edit tags
  3. Convert tags to filenames
  4. Adding album-art covers
1. Setting options

Go to Tools > Options. Go to Mpeg under Tags dropdown list. Match the check boxes with the below image.

Step 1

2. Edit tags
Select all or individual mp3s and edit the Title, Artist, Album, Year, Track, and Genre fields. When done press File > Save tag (Ctrl+S).

Step 2

Note: < keep > means you have selected multiple files and each files have different tag value.

3. Convert tags to filenames
Select Convert > Tag - Filename (Alt+1). This automatically renames all files to values of the tags. %track%, %artist%, %title% are dynamic variables for each tag.

Step 3

Tips: This is an optional step, renaming filenames will make your directory neater.

4. Adding album-art covers
Select View > Extended Tags (Alt+T). Choose the image file you want to assign as the album-art cover.

Step 4

Note: It is highly recommended to resize your album-art cover images to 200×200 or 100×100 pixels. Big images will take more time to load in your mp3 players and will deplete your mp3 player’s battery life more easily.

You are done! Add editing ID3 tags and add album-art covers is quite easy. Eventually, you might want to turn off prompting confirmation messages (after save, and after change) by going to Tools > Options > Messages. Too much prompting is quite distracting right? There are other functions that you might want to explore further. Have a nice day!

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7 Comments »

  1. Jay Youngs said,

    January 20, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Where do you go to change the album art size to 200×200 or 100×100????

  2. cococokie said,

    January 28, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    Hello jay, you can use graphic editing software like Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp to edit the image size. Hope this helps. ;)

  3. Kirill said,

    February 15, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Hello,

    You don’t need to use any external software to resize the cover artworks. My piece of software can do this transparently. If you are interested to save some of your time while tagging please take a look here:

    http://www.tagtuner.com

    The automatic resizing can be adjusted in the Options.

  4. alex said,

    April 28, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    yeah, well, yours has 29.95 reasons to choose a different program (not including tax) such as Mp3Tag Editor, which has no reasons to choose other programs.

  5. Admin said,

    June 4, 2008 at 12:33 am

    Great article. I use Mp3tag as my ID editor and think it is a brilliant software. Makes life so easy !!

    However, I don’t agree that 100×100 or 200×200 is good enough though but that’s just my view :)

    i use a free software (Photofiltre => http://photofiltre.free.fr/) or HyperSnap to do my re-sizing… but I insist on 500×500 size

    :) :) :)

  6. cococokie said,

    June 17, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    The bigger the image size, the more space it needs, hence it will make your mp3 slightly larger in size. Of cause, if u don’t mind the size, go ahead :)

  7. Richard Farrar said,

    July 16, 2008 at 1:04 am

    From the research I’ve done, 300 x 300 pixel images seem to be a common “standard”, but if you’re doing it for your own music collection, then it’s entirely up to you.

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