Posted by Mihai Asmanow on 14 January 2007 - 12:40 · 7 comments & 2184 views
Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

Mp3tag supports the following audio formats:

* Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
* Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
* Monkey's Audio (ape)
* Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
* MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
* Musepack (mpc)
* Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
* OptimFROG (ofr)
* OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
* Speex



* True Audio (tta)
* Windows Media Audio (wma)
* WavPack (wv)

Main features:

* Write ID3v1.1-, ID3v2-, APEv2-Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once
* Full Unicode support
* Support for embedded cover art
* Automatically create playlists
* Recursive subfolders support
* Remove parts or the entire tag of multiple files
* Rename files based on the tag information
* Import tags from filenames
* Format tags and filenames
* Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
* Regular Expressions
* Export tag information to user-defined formats (like html, rtf, csv, xml)
* Import tag information from online databases like freedb or Amazon (also by text-search)
* Import tag information from local freedb databases
* and much more ...

Change log v.2.37d (2007-01-14)

* NEW: display of cover art in main window.
* NEW: option to invert filter results.
* FIX: keywords If/Else/Endif were ignored in web sources if not written in lower case letters.

Download: Mp3tag 2.37d Beta (freeware)
Download: Mp3tag 2.37a (stable)
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
Link: Mp3tag Home Page


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Full name: Mihai Asmanow
Forum name: Copernic
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(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by skase on 14 Jan 2007 - 13:30
hows this against the others? What does everyone else prefer?
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by noroom on 14 Jan 2007 - 15:07
I've tried many, and this is by far the best. Documentation lacks a bit, but if you look around the guides in the forum you'll see that this little program is very powerful. Wouldn't go back to any other ID3Tag editor.

I encourage everyone to download the beta, as many bugs from the last stable build were fixed. Roles are kinda reversed in this particular case
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by 305 on 14 Jan 2007 - 18:09
I agree with noroom. This can be as simple and as complex as you want it to be. I use it to tag my mp3's with album art, rename filenames/tracks. This thing is just a complete app imo. Highly recommended.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by m-head on 14 Jan 2007 - 13:35
I used to use tag&rename, but this pretty much as powerful as tag&rename, the only thing I can see that t&r has over this is that t&r has lists of words to auto-replace, whereas you have to program commands to run in mp3tag. Which makes things in that respect take a bit longer. I'm not sure if that made sense.

Overall, mp3tag is an excellent program.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by JT1985 on 14 Jan 2007 - 14:02
Isn't there a commercial software already called mp3tag? http://www.maniactools.com/soft/mp3tag/index.shtml I shall give this a go and see how it compares
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by culhupa on 14 Jan 2007 - 17:42
foobar2000's masstagger is better...
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by 305 on 14 Jan 2007 - 18:10
Really, why? What does it do better than this app? I can't come up with anything.
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