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citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:ID3#Clean_up_of_template_tags" title="Talk:ID3">talk page</a>. Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/ID3" title="Special:EditPage/ID3">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22ID3%22">"ID3"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22ID3%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22ID3%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22ID3%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22ID3%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22ID3%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2013</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>ID3</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> container most often used in conjunction with the <a href="/wiki/MP3" title="MP3">MP3</a> <a href="/wiki/Audio_file_format" title="Audio file format">audio file format</a>. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself. </p><p>ID3 is a <a href="/wiki/De_facto_standard" title="De facto standard"><i>de facto</i> standard</a> for metadata in MP3 files; no standardization body was involved in its creation nor has such an organization given it a formal approval status.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It competes with the <a href="/wiki/APE_tag" title="APE tag">APE tag</a> in this area. </p><p>There are two unrelated versions of ID3: ID3v1 and ID3v2. In ID3v1, the metadata is stored in a 128-<a href="/wiki/Byte" title="Byte">byte</a> segment at the end of the file. In ID3v2, an <a href="/wiki/Extensible" class="mw-redirect" title="Extensible">extensible</a> set of "frames" located at the start of the file is used. Sub-variants of both versions exist. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="ID3v1">ID3v1</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: ID3v1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the MP3 standard was published in 1995, it did not include a method for storing file metadata. In 1996 Eric Kemp<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Who is he? (June 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> proposed adding a 128-<a href="/wiki/Byte" title="Byte">byte</a> suffix to MP3 files, which would store useful information such as an artist's name or a related album title. Kemp deliberately placed the tag data (which is demarcated with the 3-byte string <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">TAG</code>) at the end of the file as it would cause a short burst of <a href="/wiki/White_noise" title="White noise">static</a> to be played by older <a href="/wiki/Media_player_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Media player (software)">media players</a> that did not support the tag. The method, now known as ID3v1, quickly became the <i>de facto</i> standard for storing metadata in MP3s<sup id="cite_ref-id3origin_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-id3origin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> despite <a href="/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization" title="Internationalization and localization">internationalization and localization</a> weaknesses arising from the standard's use of <a href="/wiki/ISO-8859-1" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO-8859-1">ISO-8859-1</a> system of encoding rather than the more globally compatible <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>. </p><p>The v1 tag allows 30 bytes each for the title, artist, album, and a "comment", 4 bytes for the year, and 1 byte to identify the <a href="/wiki/Genre" title="Genre">genre</a> of the song from <a href="/wiki/List_of_ID3v1_genres" title="List of ID3v1 genres"> a predefined list of values</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ID3.org_v1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ID3.org_v1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ID3v1.1">ID3v1.1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: ID3v1.1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1997, a modification to ID3v1 was proposed by Michael Mutschler<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Who is he? (June 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> in which two bytes formerly allocated to the comment field were used instead to store a track number so that albums stored across multiple files could be correctly ordered. The modified format became known as ID3v1.1.<sup id="cite_ref-id3origin_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-id3origin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ID3v1.2">ID3v1.2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: ID3v1.2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2002 or 2003,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (June 2023)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> BirdCage Software proposed ID3v1.2, which enlarged many of the fields from 30 to 60 bytes and added a sub-genre field while retaining backward compatibility with v1.1 by placing its new "enhanced" tag in front of a standard v1.1 tag.<sup id="cite_ref-BirdCage_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BirdCage-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-enhanced_tag_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enhanced_tag-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adoption of ID3v1.2 was limited.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="ID3v2">ID3v2</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: ID3v2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="ID3v2.1"></span><span class="anchor" id="ID3v2.2"></span><span class="anchor" id="ID3v2.3"></span><span class="anchor" id="ID3v2.4"></span> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Id3v2_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Id3v2_logo.svg/125px-Id3v2_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Id3v2_logo.svg/188px-Id3v2_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Id3v2_logo.svg/250px-Id3v2_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="191" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1998, a new specification called ID3v2 was created by multiple contributors.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although it bears the name ID3, its structure is completely distinct from that of ID3v1. ID3v2 tags are of variable size and are usually placed at the start of the file, which enables metadata to load immediately, even when the file as a whole is loading incrementally during <a href="/wiki/Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">streaming</a>. </p><p>A ID3v2 tag consists of a number of optional <i>frames</i>, each of which contains a piece of metadata up to 16 MB in size. For example, a <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">TT2</code> frame may be included to contain a title. The entire tag may be as large as 256 MB, and strings may be encoded in <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ID3v2.2">ID3v2.2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: ID3v2.2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first public variant of v2, ID3v2.2, used three character frame identifiers rather than four (TT2 for the title instead of TIT2). It is considered obsolete.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ID3v2.3">ID3v2.3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: ID3v2.3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>ID3v2.3 is the most widely used version of ID3v2 tags and is widely supported by Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notably it introduced the ability to embed an image such as an album cover.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ID3v2.4">ID3v2.4</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: ID3v2.4"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>ID3v2.4 was published on November 1, 2000. It defines 83 frame types,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> allows text frames to contain multiple values separated with a <a href="/wiki/Null_character" title="Null character">null byte</a>, and permits the tag to be stored at either the beginning or the end of the file.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_features">Notable features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notable features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chapters">Chapters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Chapters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An ID3v2 Chapter Addendum was published in December 2005. It allows users to jump easily to specific locations or chapters within an audio file and can provide a synchronized slide show of images and titles during playback. Typical use-cases include <a href="/wiki/Enhanced_podcast" class="mw-redirect" title="Enhanced podcast">Enhanced podcasts</a> and it can be used in ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4 tags.<sup id="cite_ref-Newell_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newell-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lyrics">Lyrics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lyrics3v1<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Lyrics3v2<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were tag standards implemented before ID3v2, for adding lyrics to mp3 files. The difference with ID3v2 is that Lyrics3 is always at the end of an MP3 file, before the ID3v1 tag. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editing_ID3_tags">Editing ID3 tags</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Editing ID3 tags"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Tag_editor" title="Tag editor">Tag editor</a></div> <p>ID3 tags may be edited in a variety of ways. Specialized applications, called <a href="/wiki/Tag_editor" title="Tag editor">tag editors</a>, enable precise editing of all fields or frames and permit sophisticated batch editing, but many <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software" title="Comparison of audio player software">audio players</a> provide native editing of common fields or frames. Some <a href="/wiki/File_manager" title="File manager">file managers</a> also provide tag editing capabilities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-MP3_implementation">Non-MP3 implementation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Non-MP3 implementation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>ID3 tags were designed for the MP3 format, but the tagsets are an independent part of the MP3 file and can be used elsewhere. ID3v2 tags are sometimes used with <a href="/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format" title="Audio Interchange File Format">AIFF</a> and <a href="/wiki/WAV" title="WAV">WAV</a> files, <sup id="cite_ref-msdn-id3_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msdn-id3-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/MP4" class="mw-redirect" title="MP4">MP4</a> allows the embedding of an ID3 tag.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ID3&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CD-Text" title="CD-Text">CD-Text</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/APE_tag" 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