Metadata
Why is
metadata important?
Metadata refers to the information that describes your music.
Metadata is what tells you everything about the song you are
listening to. It will tell you what the artist, album, track
name and track number is. It will also show you a picture of
the album cover on MP3 devices that have screens.
Metadata is critical to any
conversion effort as it not only aids in knowing what you are
listening to, but also is used by your MP3 device, computer or media
server to organize your music for you. It allows you to search
for artists or albums, it is what brings organization to what would
otherwise be a pile of meaningless files.
Metadata accuracy is key to
ultimate enjoyment and is what we strive for.
We do not subscribe to any online metadata databases such as Gracenote or AMG as we have found them to be too inconsistent and
narrowly populated. Some ripping companies have tried to work
around this by using multiple services in order to find some common
information between them to call accurate.
We at Pickled Productions own
our metadata and use it exclusively. This provides us a way to
directly control the accuracy and tagging consistency that we strive
for. Our metadata is processed
through our own data grooming process that ensures that your music
is tagged accurately and consistently. We provide the most
accurate and consistent metadata in the industry. Because we
own our data, we can also customize the metadata tags to accommodate
a variety of tagging preferences. This is
something that is just not possible using a metadata service.
How extensive is our metadata?
We currently have over 2.6 million entries in our database. If
your CD is unlucky enough to not be in our database, we will add it.
We stand by our data and never will disclaim it. Other
services disclaim their data by telling you that they use a service,
so if the data is wrong it is not their fault. We don't agree.
Metadata is far too important.
Other metadata facts:
Our database:
- Over 2.6 million CDs
- Over 36 million tracks
Our data:
- Artist
- Album
- Genre
- Record Label
- Year
- Cover Art
- Track Number
- Track Name
- Track Length
- Ability to tailor the
music to consumers, radio stations and DJs
