Hello I am new to MP3 technology. I am ancient (approx 100 yrs) and very dim.

I manage without any problem to download music files from the web (1920's jazz and songs). I burn these on to a CD (200 mp3 per CD). I have three CD/mp3 players. (no Ipod)

I have no problem with playback...I am not looking for top quality sound!

The manual for the car audio CD/mp3 player states......

“To display up to 28 characters for a track name or artist's name,ID3TAG version 1.1 is required”

I do not follow all of this (being dim)...where would the display be??

I have a small display on the car radio CD/mp3 player which shows track number and 8 characters of the filename.

What is the significance of the ID3TAG ??

Many thanks Binkie Norwich UK

The player probably has the possibility to display the artist and track title by scrolling it 8 characters at a time over that display (instead of the filename).

The ID3 tag is a bit of extra information appended to an MP3 that says what the artist, album, song title, genre, etc are.

There are several solutions to add those tags to your files automatically, but other people can prolly help you better with that.