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    <link type="seealso" xref="coverart"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="playlists"/>
    <desc>Edit and change music tags and metadata.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.0" version="0.1" date="2010-05-09" status="draft"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Paul Cutler</name>
      <email>pcutler@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>    
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  <title>Music Metadata</title>

  <section id="metadata">

  <title>Music metadata</title>    
  
  	<p>Digital music contains metadata that stores information in the 
  	music file including the artist, album, year recorded, genre, and more.
  	Almost all music purchased over the internet will have the metadata
  	already embedded and if you import music from CDs, Banshee will include
  	the metadata when ripping the CD if available.  For more information
  	on ripping CDs and including the metadata see the 
  	<link xref="import"/>.</p>
  	
  	<p>Popular metadata formats are ID3v1 and ID3v2 for MP3 files and
  	Vorbis comments for OGG Vorbis files.</p>	
  
  	<p>If you have imported songs that do not contain metadata, 
  	<app>Banshee</app> will display <gui>Unknown</gui> for most fields
  	in the library. </p>
  	
  </section>

  <section id="editmetadata"> 	
    
    <title>Edit Your Metadata</title>
    
    <p>You can change and edit the metadata of your songs.  Select the song or
    songs you want to update and hit the <key>E</key>, choose
    <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Edit Track Information</gui></guiseq> from the menu, or use
    your mouse and right click on the files and select
    <gui>Edit Track Information</gui>.
    </p>
    
    <p>A dialog box will appear that shows the song's metadata and allow you to 
    change or update it.  The default fields displayed include:</p>
    
    <list>
      <item><p><gui>Track Title</gui></p></item>
      <item><p><gui>Track Artist</gui></p></item>
      <item><p><gui>Album Title</gui></p></item>
      <item><p><gui>Genre</gui></p></item>
      <item><p><gui>Track Number</gui></p></item>
      <item><p><gui>Disc Number</gui></p></item>
      <item><p><gui>Year</gui></p></item>
    </list>
    
    <p>Update the song's information.  If you have selected multiple songs to
    edit press the right arrow icon to the right of the <gui>Track Title</gui>
    field or press the <gui>Forward</gui> button at the bottom of the dialog
    when finished with each song.   When you have completed editing all metadata,
    press <gui>Save</gui>.
    </p>
   
  </section>

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