
This makes it easier to provide searches of a more powerful nature. Along with the Dolphin file manager this can be used to view, sort, and search files based on tag attributes. Of course there's much more we can do with this, but this is just a simple example.įurthermore, properly organized and tagged music files can be used buy schemantic desktops, such as KDE plasma's inherit file indexing abilities. Not much info there now is there? By using a tagging application or service, the song can be automatically identified and renamed what it really is, like "Track 11- Fire Water Burn.ogg". Therefore, many music aficionados insist on properly tagged music files.įor example, you may have a song in your collection simply titled "song_11.ogg" on your drive. Basically, it's a way to keep your music collection from being complete chaos. all can be embedded into files so that information can be passed to music players and for other various uses.

Things like artist, album, song title, cover art, lyrics, release year, record label, country of issue, user rating, etc. Music tags provide a uniform way to embed attributes into music files. If you are an audiophile, or a wanna-be one like me, and have an extensive music collection, you probably at various points in the past have looked for ways to organize and manage your music collection in and intelligent and easy manner.įor the uninitiated, music tagging is a method of tagging music to a common standard that is either a based on a single user's preference, or a commonly accepted set of tags and attributes based on private and / or public databases.
