Podcasters: Improve your Meta-Data (ID3 tags)
Media file meta-data entries (e.g ID3 tags) are becoming more important as podcasts are tranferred from PC to be played back on mobile devices.
To simplify episode management for users, populate the commonly used ID3 tags in your media files. These tags should be correct and valid and match the items of your RSS feed.
1. The “title” ID3 tag should match the item < title > in the RSS feed for the episode.
2. Set the “genre” ID3 tag to “Podcast”. This allows users to download MP3 files to their PC and synchronize them to their Nokia device using for example Windows Media Player (WMP) . If the Nokia device has a music player which allows you to search by Genre, it will then recognize the episode as a Podcast.
3. The “album” ID3 tag should match the < title > RSS tag of your Podcast feed.
4. The “artist” ID3 tag should match the item < author > RSS tag.
5. If you are using album art, use a small JPEG image (max. 30kB) and tag it as “Album Cover (front)” in WMP10 or WMP11. (Go to the Windows Media Player.
Find your podcast digital file (mp3).
Right click the file and use the ADVANCE TAG EDITOR.
Click the PICTURES tab and click ADD.
Browse for your artwork and click OPEN.
Change PICTURE TYPE to “Cover (Front)” and APPLY. Then Click “OK”
The graphic should now be embedded in your mp3 file and show up nicely when playing back on most Nokia NSeries devices (with the spiffy NSeries Music Player. For example, N95, N91, N76, N75, N73 Music Edition, N70 Music Edition)
If you dont do this, the artwork might not show up on the Nokia music player. (If adding artwork in other players, it might have the art listed as a separate file and not show up.)
Its important that your podcasts look as great as they sound… Do you really want your show showing up with “Artist: Unknown” “Genre Unknown” “Title: Unknown” with no artwork? Didnt think so.
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