At NativeDSD we do our best to include the best and up to date tags inside the file's header, for them to show up correctly in your music player. However, sometimes these tags inside these files' headers may not be correctly set for your system to read them the way you like. The audio is not affected by this issue. Updating the tags yourself is easy, and saves you time in redownloading the music after we may fix them.
Change metadata embedded in the music files
Tags
Metadata inside FLAC, WAV and DSD files are easily editable as it is ID3V2 a compliant file (i.e any player that reads both DSF and ID3V2 tags will see the info).
You can edit the tags inside the files with other players (like Audirvana Plus or Roon on the Mac)
You can edit the tags inside the files tag programs like MP3tag or Tag&Rename (see more info below).
Artwork
Currently most of our files for sale also have embedded artwork (but since we started doing this in 2015, some of the early releases may lack this artwork). Most players, renderers and control points find them easily via the web (assuming you haven’t changed the album name with some suffix, etc).
You can add or change cover art with the above mentioned players and taggers, or some control points simply need a folder.jpg or cover.jpg to be present in the same folder as the tracks to pick it up.
Applications
Editing metadata on the music download files on Native DSD is very easy. We recommend using a program like Tag and Rename, which you can try for Free and sells for $29, to edit the metadata, change track numbering, cover art, etc.
For windows:
MP3TAG http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Tag&Rename http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
Or alternatively, on a MAC:
MP3TAG https://mp3tag.app/
Common issues with tags, and how to solve them
A common issue is track appearing out of order, in several groups, even though they should be all part of the same album.
To fix that:
make sure "Album" is set the same for all tracks
make sure the track numbering counting is set correctly for each track
make sure "Album Artist" is set the same for all tracks (optional)
(example screenshot taken in 'mp3tag')