Tag Your Music Files

Tagging media files is the most important thing you can do to take control of your Music library. You could add all your music to your library and play it at random, but without correct tags, you’d never find what you want, and you wouldn’t be able to make smart playlists. To correctly organize your music, tagging is essential.

In this chapter, I’ll show you which tags you can change, how to change them for single and multiple items, and how to streamline tagging so you can easily organize your library. Note that the information in this chapter also applies to video files in the TV app, but you can no longer change tags for podcasts in the new Podcasts app, or for audiobooks in the Books app.

Understanding Tags

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