3.3Artist, Album, Title … ID3 Tags
ID3 Tags are information about the recording which found inside of an MP3 music file. When someone creates an MP3 music file, he or she has the option of adding information to it. This information can include, among other things, the name of the artist (Wes Burden), the album name
(Brave New World), the title of the song (Mirror), and a small image of the album cover (only jpeg images not progressive jpeg). If these data are present, the Gmini 400 will display them on the screen when it plays the file. If they are not present, then the Gmini 400 will display in order, the name of the parent folder, the name of the current folder, and then the name of the file.
As of the writing of this manual, there are two versions of ID3 tags that are firmly established standards, ID3 version 1 and ID3 version 2. Your Gmini 400 can read either version of tags, and display the information. If both sets of tags have information, the data from the ID3 version 2 tag will be displayed. Other tag information may include year and genre of music. These other tag data are not displayed by the Gmini 400, but are used to index your music in the ARCLibrary (see next section). WMA files also have tags and these are displayed as well when the file is played.
3.4The ARCLibrary (Browsing by Album, Artist, or Song name)
The ARCLibrary is a system for choosing your music by its characteristics. It can be turned On or Off in the settings
from Setup > Playmode. As shown
in this screen capture, you can select your music by Artist, Album, Song Title, Genre, or Year. MP3 and WMA music files have internal data tags to hold information about the song. For MP3 files, these are known as ID3 tags. Not
all MP3 files have all this information filled in. If you purchase a song from a music download service, the songs will have this information. If you have an MP3 or WMA file without this tag information, then you can add or change it by going to the properties of the file in Windows® Explorer. Once you
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