Apple Music nor saving custom original lyrics - all permissions OK

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Apple Music nor saving custom original lyrics - all permissions OK

I have an MP3 of a song I wrote and recorded which I moved to my apple music app to apply ID3 tagging metadata. It will not save the original lyrics in the ID3 info field. I have seen some people have a problem with with this because of a multiple tags and securities permissions which are not correct. My permissions for apple music are fine having looked at my info under apple music which I brought up in finder. Nothing is locked, I have read and write authority and I have custom access.

All the ID3 information I am adding is my data for the song. Everything else seems to be retained that I have put into the general fields. Once I click OK it's gone.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.7

Posted on May 15, 2023 8:39 PM

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MightyCrunch Author

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May 21, 2023 3:35 PM in response to turingtest2

No. Actually I figured out what that problem was. What I had done was mistakenly put a .wav file in there and was adding my ID3 data to that. Once I converted it with Apple Music to an .mp3 the custom lyrics remained in place. I guess inputting metadata on a .wav (and maybe AIFF? I don't know) files only fillsin the general data?

Now I'm having a problem trying to take the mp3 out of Apple Music and move it elsewhere. There doesn't seem to be a share or copy function? I can't even seem to get it to my iPad. But I'm pretty new to Apple Music - I only recently set up a cloud account. I haven't figured out stuff yet like how to get my iPad to find the playlist.

But the problem I wrote about here seems to be resolved. Thank you for your response and getting me to look at it again to where I fixed that issue.

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turingtest2

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May 28, 2023 2:33 AM in response to MightyCrunch

That would explain it. .wav files don't carry a tag. iTunes/Music will store certain types of metadata in the library database for .wav files, but not custom lyrics or artwork for example. AIFF tags are also a little quirky. Use Apple Lossless if you want high quality copies of your files with full tagging capabilties.

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MightyCrunch Author

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May 28, 2023 5:16 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks, that's really useful information. I'll have to look into Apple Lossless and figure out how else I can expand my tag data. You can't have enough metadata these days when releasing music. Cheers!

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