Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

In the music world, metadata most commonly refers to the song credits you see on services like Spotify or Apple Music, but it also includes all the underlying information tied to a released song or album, including titles, songwriter and producer names, the publisher(s), the record label, and more. “Every second that goes by and it’s not fixed, I’m dripping pennies”

Entering the correct information about a song sounds like it should be easy enough, but metadata problems have plagued the music industry for decades. Metadata is frequently cleaned up after a song is released as mistakes are noticed

In an ideal world, once a song is finished, the metadata would be crafted by the artist or the artist’s producer, and they would submit that data to the record label, distributor, or publisher(s) involved for verification and distribution.

Source: www.theverge.com