

This is important because any music professional will use those databases to check you out and verify your claim to authorship or performance credit.

This article is about music file metadata. For example, you may have heard the word used in discussions in the media about metadata associated with digital recordings of phone conversations. Metadata formats are different for different types of files. Metadata is “hidden” data in computer files that “tags” a file with certain identifying information.

You’ve probably heard a lot about metadata.
