Alias metadata

With Alias metadata, you can control what metadata on your Tracks gets shared.

At a glance

Alias metadata is only available to users on our Plus plan (at the Playlist level only) and Pro plan (on both the Playlist and Track levels). It is especially useful for the following use cases:

• your Track metadata contains internal information, such as Tags, Notes, or other people's contact info that you'd prefer not to share with recipients
• you'd like to make a compilation from existing Tracks, but you want it to include more specific or relevant metadata (e.g. Album art or Title)
• you'd like to change the Track metadata appears for a particular recipient, without changing how it appears in your DISCO
• you'd like only certain fields to be displayed and downloaded
• you'd like to overwrite metadata for specific Playlists

Alias metadata will be shown on your public Playlist share URLs, when you share Playlists directly with other DISCOs, and when the Playlist is downloaded or Saved to DISCO by another DISCO user.

Setting Alias metadata at the Track level (for all Tracks you share)

1. In the top-right corner of your DISCO, open Settings (the person icon) and select Settings and Account.
2. Under Workspace Settings, select Metadata.
3. Under Metadata settings, there's an option to Include the following metadata in the tracks I share: Artist, Album, Genre, Composer, Grouping, and Comments. If you uncheck any of these fields, this metadata field will be left blank on tracks you share (you can also choose to override this if needed when saving a Playlist – more on that below).
   
4. There is also an option to Include metadata that DISCO does not display, which you can set to Yes or No. This refers to the ID3 standard metadata fields that DISCO doesn't display, but we do read and write them to files when they're downloaded. If you'd like us to continue writing data from these fields on your Tracks, select Yes. If you'd like data from these fields to not be written to your Tracks, select No. This can also be set at the Playlist level.
5. Lastly, there is an option to Enter a custom message in the Comments metadata.  If you choose to enter something in here, it will be included in the Comments field for all Tracks you share. If a Track already has Comments metadata, and you haven't disabled this field by unchecking the box under Include the following metadata fields in the tracks I share, then the custom message will be added to the Comments field in addition to any existing Comments metadata on that Track. For example:

   Existing Comments metadata on my Track // Custom message entered in Metadata settings

6. These Metadata settings will be applied when you share individual Tracks from your DISCO.

Setting Alias metadata at the Playlist level

You can do this from your Playlist Settings or when saving your Playlist from the Save Playlist menu. There are also two options when adding Alias Metadata: Batch edit and Edit individually.

1. From Playlist Settings: Open the Playlist menu (⋮) and select Playlist Settings. Then select the Alias Metadata tab.
   From the Save Playlist menu: Select the Alias Metadata tab.
2. From the Alias Metadata tab, select an option: Batch edit or Edit individually.
   • Batch edit -- You can apply the same alias metadata for all Tracks in the Playlist. In this view, you can disable any fields you don't want to be populated on your Tracks by unchecking the boxes. But, if you leave the box next to a field checked but don't enter a new value, it will be populated with its regular metadata. You also have the option to Turn off any other metadata fields not displayed here. This refers to the ID3 standard metadata fields that DISCO doesn't display, but we do read and write them to files when they're downloaded. If you'd like us to continue writing data from these fields on your Tracks, leave the box unchecked. If you'd like data from these fields to not be written to your Tracks, check the box.
     
   • Edit individually -- You can edit the alias metadata for each Track in the Playlist individually, but only three fields are available in this view: Title, Artist, and Album.
     
3. If you've set alias metadata from your account settings (see the section above), these settings will be reflected in these fields, but you can overwrite them here for this specific Playlist if you like. Also, adding or updating metadata in these fields will display and write it to these Tracks, but just for this Playlist. The metadata for the Tracks in your DISCO will not be changed.
4. Click the Save Metadata button.
5. Click the Save Playlist button.

Removing Alias metadata at the Playlist level

1. From Playlist Settings: Open the Playlist menu (⋮) and select Playlist Settings. Then select the Alias Metadata tab.
   From the Save Playlist menu: Select the Alias Metadata tab.
2. From the Alias Metadata tab, select an option: Batch edit or Edit individually.
3. At the bottom of the Save Playlist window, click the red text the says Remove all alias metadata for this playlist.
   
4. Click the Save Metadata button.
5. Click the Save Playlist button.

Viewing Alias metadata for Tracks in your DISCO

You can view Alias metadata that's been added to your Tracks from within your DISCO:

1. From the Track menu (⋮), select Edit Track Information.
2. Click Show aliases.