Mp3tag

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Tag editor for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS

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::summary Tag editor for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS ::

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FieldValue
nameMp3tag
logoMp3tag Logo.png
logo size240px
screenshot size300px
captionMp3tag 3.27c on Windows 10
authorFlorian Heidenreich
releasedbefore 2003
latest release versionv3.30
latest release date
latest preview versionv3.30c
latest preview date
programming languageC++
operating systemWindows and macOS
size4.21 MiB (32-bit); 4.65 MiB (64-bit) for stable release version
languageBelarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
language count39
genreTag editor
licenseProprietary
website
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| name = Mp3tag | logo = Mp3tag Logo.png | logo size = 240px | screenshot = | screenshot size = 300px | caption = Mp3tag 3.27c on Windows 10 | author = Florian Heidenreich | released = before 2003 | latest release version = v3.30 | latest release date = | latest preview version = v3.30c | latest preview date = | programming language = C++ | operating system = Windows and macOS | size = 4.21 MiB (32-bit); 4.65 MiB (64-bit) for stable release version | language = Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | language count = 39 | genre = Tag editor | license = Proprietary | website =

Mp3tag is a metadata tag editor that supports many popular audio file formats. It is freeware for Microsoft Windows, while it is a paid application for Apple macOS in the Mac App Store.

Features

Mp3tag has the following features:

  • Batch Tag Editing. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MPEG-4, WMA, APEv2 tags, and Vorbis comments to multiple files at once.
  • Full Unicode support
  • Support for embedded album cover art
  • Automatically creates playlists
  • Recursive subfolder support
  • User-defined field mappings
  • Remove parts of a tag or the entire tag from multiple files
  • Rename files based on the tag information
  • Import tags from filenames and text files
  • Format tags and filenames
  • Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
  • Regular expressions
  • Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e. HTML, RTF, CSV, XML and TXT)
  • Import tag information from online databases like freedb, discogs, MusicBrainz or Amazon (also by text-search)
  • Import tag information from local freedb databases
  • Support for ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and ID3v2.4 with UTF-8

It includes support for the following audio formats:

Playlist example

The following is an example of an M3U playlist file for "Jar of Flies" album by "Alice in Chains" that was created by Mp3tag with the following custom option settings:

  • playlist extended info format = "%artist% - %title%"
  • playlist filename format = "%artist%_%album%_00_Playlist.m3u"
  • tag to filename conversion format = "%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%"
  1. EXTM3U
  2. EXTINF:419,Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_01_Rotten Apple.mp3
  3. EXTINF:260,Alice in Chains - Nutshell Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_02_Nutshell.mp3
  4. EXTINF:255,Alice in Chains - I Stay Away Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_03_I Stay Away.mp3
  5. EXTINF:256,Alice in Chains - No Excuses Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_04_No Excuses.mp3
  6. EXTINF:157,Alice in Chains - Whale And Wasp Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_05_Whale And Wasp.mp3
  7. EXTINF:263,Alice in Chains - Don't Follow Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_06_Don't Follow.mp3
  8. EXTINF:245,Alice in Chains - Swing On This Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_07_Swing On This.mp3

References

References

  1. "Mp3tag Changelog".
  2. (6 September 2003). "Mp3tag Development Build Status".
  3. "Mp3tag Website".
  4. "Mp3tag".
  5. [http://help.mp3tag.de/options_export.html MP3tag Export Settings.]
  6. [http://help.mp3tag.de/options_playlist.html MP3tag Playlist Settings.]
  7. [http://help.mp3tag.de/main_scripting.html MP3tag Scripting Functions.]

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