Introduction
You can import bulk audio metadata, images, and audio files to the Content Library in your CMS. First, you need to create a CSV or XML file, which will contain all the metadata information of the content that you want to add to your Content Library. This CSV/XML file must contain information including, Content-Type, Content Name, Content Category, Release/Record Date, Genre, Poster Images, etc. in a specific order for each content. You can also import Custom Metadata to Content Library through this feature. After creating the CSV/XML file you can import the content metadata to the Content Library through the Import feature in the CMS.
Creating CSV/XML File
While creating the CSV/XML file for content metadata, you need to follow some guidelines.
- Column headings in the CSV/XML file must be the same as the metadata fields in the “Add Content” page. (For example, Genre should have a column header as “Genre”. Otherwise, the corresponding metadata won’t be imported).
- In a CSV/XML file, columns are metadata fields and the rows contain the values of the content. (For example, under the column “Content Name” type the name of the content. It can be a song name, audio clip name, or audio album name, depending on the content type. Under column, “Genre” type Pop if it is a Pop song, Jazz, if it’s a Jazz song etc.)
- If column names are valid and the row name with the “Title/Name” doesn’t exist, then new Content with that title will be created.
- There are certain values defined for “Content-Type” and Metadata Type”, which you need to follow while creating content metadata.
- For AOD (Audio on Demand) content, type “3”
- For Metadata Type, you need to put different values. “5” for “AOD Single Part”, “6” for “Multi-Part Parent” and “7” for “Multi-Part Child”. (Please view the below table)
- You can import Custom Metadata to Content Library. To import custom metadata, you need to create new columns according to the custom metadata field names and add values to the corresponding custom metadata fields. (Note: Please do not change the column name “Custom Metadata Form“.)
- To import poster images of the content, first, you need to add the images to your image library. Click Here to know how to add an image to the Image Library. Once you added the image, you need to copy the image file name from the Image Library and paste it in the “Image File Name” field in the CSV/XML file for the corresponding audio content.
Note: While uploading images in the Image Library, please make sure that the image size matches the Poster Dimension of your store.