Tagging your music in preparation for distribution
Before uploading your music online, you should correctly tag it. What's a tag? If you navigate to a song on your computer or phone, you'll see a list of information about the song, such as the name, track number, album, artist, and so on. That information is imprinted upon the file. These are tags, also known as metadata. In the following screenshot, you can see tag information on songs:
You can add custom tags for your songs. The easiest way to do so is with tagging software. I recommend the free tag editor MP3Tag for your songs, which is available at www.mp3tag.de/en.
When you open up MP3Tag, you'll see a screen like the following:
MP3Tag allows you to add tags for your songs such as the Title, Artist, Album, and cover image. The cover image should be square. The image you use for the cover image should be...