Collect

Alex Chapin. “Collect” AcademiX 2009: iPods and 2nd Language Acquisition. 2008 – 05:24
The metadata standard for most audio files is ID3.  ID3 was designed to add identification fields to .mp3 audio files but has since been expanded for use with audiobooks, podcasts and learning assets.

  • Embedding Tags
  • Cataloging
  • Organizing

ID3 Metadata

metadata02.pngGenre: Language-<<language>>

Artist: instructor, student, textbook, course code, lecture….

Album: lesson, unit, class, assignment….

“Song”: word, phrase, dialog, exercise….

“Lyrics”: audio transcipt, contextual information….

Embedding Tags

dbimport01.pngTo more efficiently add and update metadata we created a utitlity application to “programmatically” embed ID3 tags

  1. Import transcript/metadata into database
  2. Embed metadata from database into files using server-side scripting (PHP)
    OR
    Write metadata out to file and use applescript


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