Tap on a tag information proposal to apply it to the song.Īccessing and editing files located to external storage like an SD card is not straightforward, depending on the Android OS version you use. Tga matchesĪlong with the tag information you see in AutomaTag best match section, here you find a list of other tag suggestions. Tap on a cover image proposal to apply it to the song. Cover imagesĪlong with the artwork image you see in AutomaTag best match section, here you find a list of other artowrk suggestions. Here you can type manually tag information for the selected song/album just like you would do with any other tag editor.
This section is dedicated to manual metadata editing and it's tipically collapsed. Tap on the best match to apply both artwork image and tag information to the song.
You will be promped with a full set of metadata ranging from title, artist, album, genre and year to artwork image, track number and disc number. This match is the result of an online search that compares current title and artist name owned by the song against online databases. AutomaTag best matchĪutomaTag puts in this place a possible match that corresponds to what the audio file should actually contains as metadata. You are able to view song title and artist name, along with album artwork on the background. You will be directed to the editing page, which is made of some blocks starting from the top:ĭisplays metadata that are currently available inside the audio file. Let's supposed you want to edit metadata for a song and you tap on it from Song view page. Also find me tricks to fix MediaStore when misbehaving. If you are uncertain about whether AutomaTag edited a file out not, you may head to editing page for that song and verify that it contains updated tag information. When you open a song or album for editing and then you expang manual metadata editing section, it shows information that are actually contained into the file, without any help from the MediaStore. Song view and Album view you find in AutomaTag page work exactly like any music player, asking to the MediaStore for metadata information, so don't trust it neither. How can I distinguish between not-updated MediaStore metadata and newer metadata actually contained into the file?Īs said above, most music player apps ask for music metadata to the MediaStore to keep good performance while displaying songs, so they may show old information. So the music player app ─ that ask metadata information to the MediaStore ─ displays to your the older artist name, even though the audio file contains the newer artist name.
Sometimes MediaStore stops working so you change the artist name inside the physical audio file, but the MediaStore does not update its records. We can say that MediaStore works just like a caching systemt to speed up metadata display in our everyday application we have on our devices So, when playing a song, you see the title and artist metadata that MediaStore had previously extracted from the audio file and it stored them in a database for a faster retrieval. MediaStore works like a caching system and it allows your music player app to fetch very quickly audio metadata so they can be displayed to you when you scroll song list while listening to the music. In the case of our interest, the MediaStore saves information about things like title, artist, artwork image and so on. It keeps track of any media file and it also remembers of metadata information found inside files. This piece of software is in charge of scanning continuosly the device memory to find and record any media file it can find, may the be audios, videos or images. Since Android was early released, we know that there is a component inside it called MediaStore. Inside this section I will got a little bit technical but it may help understand what's going on in case you face some problems using AutomaTag.