Some of this is auto-generated by iTunes when it downloads your file from your RSS feed. If it wasn't for your ID3 tags, then someone who downloads “podcast001.mp3” would never see important information: But newer versions hold a lot more information in each tag and offer more tags.
Older ID3 versions (1.x) couldn't hold many characters in a single tag. There are several versions of ID3, each offering an additional set of tags or ways to contain information. It's attached to the file through ID3 tags. When play a song in any program or portable player, you've probably noticed information that displays with that track:Īll of this information displays no matter what the file name is.
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