Viewing and editing your track metadata

When you upload tracks to DISCO, we read every metadata field on the track, as long as the audio format of the track can embed metadata in a way that is readable (see this article for more details).

DISCO uses the following fields to display metadata on the track information page (Edit track information > Metadata): 

• artwork
• title
• artist
• album
• composer 
• grouping
• genre 
• year
• release date
• BPM
• ISRC
• order
• comments
• lyrics

On the Writers tab of the track information page, there is also a PRO number field, but this is for internal use only and doesn't write to the files when downloaded.

Viewing and editing track metadata

There are a few ways to view metadata on tracks and navigate to the track information page to edit metadata:

1. Hover over the info (i) icon on the track. Click View full track info to open the track information page.

2. Open the Track menu (⋮) and select Edit track information.

3. Open the track in the Explorer. Some* metadata fields will be displayed in the track detail panel, and you can also View full track info.

*To customize which fields are displayed here, go to Settings > App Settings.

All of the above options will open the track information page, with the Metadata tab selected. Here you can view and edit your metadata:

You can also view and edit lyrics from the Lyrics tab.

From the Writers tab, you can view and manage Writers and Writer Splits.

From the Notes tab, you can view and add Notes.

Editing multiple tracks

Use multi-select to select multiple tracks. Then click the edit pencil at the bottom of the screen to Edit selected. 

This will open the track information page and allow you to edit multiple tracks at once:

Searching metadata

You can search any of the metadata fields listed above using the search bar. Any metadata you add or update will be instantly searchable.

You can also refine your search by field by clicking the dropdown in the top search field, which opens Advanced search. In the first Filter by dropdown, choose the metadata field you want to search in, and then enter your search term in the next field:

You can add multiple filters to your search by clicking the '+' next to your filters.

For numerical metadata fields like Year and BPM, you can choose from multiple values.

For Year, you can choose 'is', 'is between', 'is before', and 'is after'.

For BPM, you can choose 'is', 'is between', 'is less than', and 'is more than'. 

Metadata on downloaded files

For file formats that support metadata writing, DISCO outputs all the metadata you can see on your files in DISCO, with the exception of PRO number, which doesn't have a matching id3 field, and Notes. 

DISCO will read, store, and write the following metadata fields to the files, even though they will not be displayed in DISCO:

+    'EncodedBy',

+    'AlbumArtist',

+    'PartOfSet',

+    'EncoderSettings',

+    'Publisher',

+    'Subtitle',

+    'Copyright',

+    'Length',

+    'OriginalArtist',

+    'FileOwner',

+    'FileURL',

+    'OriginalAlbum',

+    'AlbumSortOrder',

+    'EncodedBy',

+    'Length',

+    'Compilation',

+    'FileURL',

+    'SourceURL',

+    'OriginalReleaseTime',

+    'OriginalReleaseYear',

+    'UserDefinedText',