Metadata - the information about a song, album and artist as contained within an audio file, has become key to the future of digital music.

Metadata has been traditionally used as a means to navigate a musical collection by album, artist, composer or genre. As digital music spreads, metadata is increasingly important as a means to enhance the user experience by means of added items such as biography, artwork and discography's. metadata can be harnessed as a powerful tool to profile listener tastes and build unique playlists and build additional profile information for such areas as related artists and alternate titles.

The issue with metadata historically has been its lack of consistency - composers such as Bach presented as 'Johnann Sebastian Bach' , 'J.S Bach' and 'Bach' . Box sets can be numbered non sequentially. Artists can be catalogued incorrectly and genres can be highly inaccurate.

Ripfactory works with metadata providers, aggregators, service providers and end clients in a number of different ways:

• Supply of its Audiogroomer employing technology to allow automated cleaning of metadata at client, service provider or enterprise level.
• Development of standardised metadata schema for linear (wav) audio files
• Development and implementation of 'deep tagging' schemes for enhanced user experiences
• Automated artwork databases
• Audio fingerprinting and identification

Metadata Providers

Ripfactory partners with Get Digital Data (GD3) to provide its clients with best in class data and cover artwork, both in our Ripstation products and in turnkey and modular applications.

In addition, Ripfactory has extensive experience in the incorporation of AMG, Gracenote (CDDB) , FreeDB and Musicbrainz access into product platforms.

Read more about AMG, GD3, Musicbrainz or FreeDB by clicking the relevant logos opposite.

Contact Us today to see what we can do for you.

Metadata Submission

At Ripfactory, we believe quality metadata is key to the digital music experience and offer a dedicated Metadata submission team to ensure your audio is catalogued on the various internet services, hence shown in all popular media players.

Ripfactory services relies on the supply of the physical CD and:

• Enters all metadata to a field depth of 22 fields including album, artist, genre, composer, label, UPC etc.
• Scans high resolution and thumbnail resolution cover art and liner images
• Creates 30 second snip previews
• Submits data to all major music sources - All Music, GD3, Gracenote (CDDB), FreeDB and MusicBrainz
• Uses defined style guidelines for maximum cross platform support and accuracy
• Ensures listings are present in all databases in the fastest possible time

Ripfactory's submission process is incredibly cost effective and fast - for detailed pricing, contact us.