Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/

by accrual • 2 years ago

391 168 2 years ago

mmastrac3• 2 years ago

That is a blast from the past. MP3tag is older than Web 2.0, Twitter, Facebook and is still actively maintained.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010502171211/http://www.mp3tag...

My workflow back in the day was mainly thrift store CD to AudioGrabber. I still have a few CDs that only exist in high-bitrate MP3 format after losing the physical disk.

Lately I've been using MusicBrainz Picard to re-organize all of these ancient rips and then automedia to add parity. I'm still paranoid that Spotify will disappear one day and I'm afraid to lose my older music collection.

qbane• 2 years ago

I remembered that taking care of metadata of 1000+ mp3 music and syncing them between music players and backing up with CD-RWs were time filler. They still are, but I enjoyed doing so. Digital garden in web 1.0 era I could say.

epiccoleman• 2 years ago

I was so proud of my meticulously tagged mp3 collection, and even took the time to add album art to everything. I always wanted mp3s tagged with the original album they came from, even if they were from a greatest hits CD or something. (Looking back, this wasn't quite the right mindset, as sometimes the versions on a greatest hits CD or similar will be slightly different than the "real" album version, but it was my collection!)

disposition2• 2 years ago

If you haven’t already looked in to it, beets might be a solution for you

https://beets.io/

res0nat0r• 2 years ago

I highly recommend Musicbrainz Picard: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

It will match against the Musicbrainz database and will acoustically ID your files, so the tags can be completely wrong and it can ID the song from it's sound fingerprint. Just dump folders of albums into the client, it will group and sort things and ID them. It works great.

pkulak• 2 years ago

Spotify does this thing for me where, no matter what you do, after an hour or so of listening you find yourself hearing the same 50 or so songs, over and over and over until you go mad. I still pay for it, and use it a bit, but playing my own collection is so much nicer.

eddd-ddde• 2 years ago

I'm a fan of YouTube music's algorithm. I don't even have playlists. I just like songs that I enjoy, and whenever I need music I click something in the homepage and enjoy old and new songs that YouTube thinks I will like.

cvdub• 2 years ago

That’s why I disable all of Spotify’s smart playlist and auto play features. When my playlist/album ends I want to select something new, not be spoon fed whatever everyone else is listening to!

9dev2• 2 years ago

Same for me, I could never understand the hype around their suggestions. Even random playlists like „coffee house music“ (which I exclusively turn on when friends are over) seem to be personalised to me - so much so that they pretty much immediately veer off into heavy rock or other stuff that I may have come across, but that definitely isn’t good as a chill backdrop.

And even the much-praised weekly playlist is hit or miss - sometimes it’s weeks with abhorring stuff, then for once I get a good one with two to three songs I actually like.

hollandheese• 2 years ago

Plexamp. Does the same kind of thing but with your own collection.

sandreas15• 2 years ago

My workflow is

1. Buying used and reasonably priced original music CDs

2. Ripping them with EAC[1] and an external LG BH16NS55 to FLAC format (takes 120 seconds per CD - this drive is FAST and ACCURATE)

3. Auto-import the ripped FLACs into my beets.io database via cronjob (which also unifies the metadata automatically in 99% of the cases)

4. Inplace-convert the FLACs to 192kbps mp3 via `beet convert`

5. Archiving the converted perfectly tagged FLACs to Bluray discs, as soon as the archive size hits 25GB

6. Point a self-hosted Navidrome instance and a Windows VM with iTunes to the beets folder

7. Use Substreamer App with Navidrome's smart playlists[2] and "favoriting" on my Android phone / iPhone as well as iTunes syncing my iPod Nano 7 via smart playlists

Works absolutely flawless and is less work than I expected. Since I automated everything possible, the only manual thing I need to do is the BUYING, the RIPPING and the Bluray ARCHIVING part.

1: https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/

2: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/issues/1417

mmastrac3• 2 years ago

5. Archiving the converted perfectly tagged FLACs to Bluray discs, as soon as the archive size hits 25GB

Do you have a rec for any long-life BR discs?

gpspake• 2 years ago

Why bother with MP3s in this day and age? I have a whole little flowchart like this too but one thing I'll mention is that I use cueripper with eac as a fallback. When I end up using EAC I run the result through cuetools to get the verification log and store it with the original rip in a sort of source directory. Then I split the single cue file to individual flac tracks (I convert them from wave if I had to use EAC) and tag them all/add images etc. the final destination is media monkey and an iPod running Rock box. I keep a spreadsheet with every CD and the rip results and whether metadata has been applied and whether it's been moved over to the iPod.

karmakaze• 2 years ago

I would use 320kbps mp3s. At this point the space savings from 192kbps isn't worth anything and it's one of those things you wish you'd thought through so you won't have to do these steps again.

glitchc2• 2 years ago

What about the metadata? Do you listen to whole CDs at a time? I find that adding the tags for each song takes more time than all of the other steps you mentioned. Of course I use Mp3tag for that, but still, would be nice to auto populate somehow.

wwalexander2• 2 years ago

With a setup this bespoke, why not transcode to Opus or AAC or MP3 VBR?

at_a_remove2• 2 years ago

Thank you for this. I am trying to figure out what it is I want to do with my collection.

EAC doesn't seem like it would have anything set up for an autoloader like the Nimbie, but dbpoweramp does; on the other hand, the major music-sharing groups seem to prefer EAC.

Sadly, there's nothing out there that will be relatively accurate and precise when it comes to extracting beats per minute, key, and the nebulous "energy" characteristics. I would love to have those.

I think I will also have to work to do things like pushing lyrics and artwork into the FLACs, seeing what metadata "makes it" in the re-encoding to something like a 320kbps MP3.

toastedwedge2• 2 years ago

How did you get EAC working exactly? I tried to use it on numerous occasions and each time it would randomly freeze or repeatedly show a dialog box (I forget what it was now, something about tips maybe) until I closed the software. Even while I did nothing the boxes kept appearing. This would cause it to overlay itself endlessly in a loop.

jgalt212• 2 years ago

automedia to add parity.

What do you mean by this?

callumgare• 2 years ago

I’m guessing they’re referring to this: https://github.com/mmastrac/automedia

komali2• 2 years ago

I love MusicBrainz Picard but the UI doesn't seem to allow me to mass-manage my TB collection of music. Just crashes after trying to load it all into RAM for 20 minutes or something.

I'm sure there's a CLI or something that can accomplish what I'm trying to do though.

herewulf• 2 years ago

Try beets[1]. It's likely the CLI answer you're looking for.

[1] https://beets.io

autoexec• 2 years ago

Lately I've been using MusicBrainz Picard to re-organize all of these ancient rips and then automedia to add parity. I'm still paranoid that Spotify will disappear one day

Spotify doesn't even have to disappear, it just has to lose access to the songs you care about or raise their prices to the point where they are unfair, or degrade their service in other ways until it's not worth using.

Personally, I'm paranoid about using internet based services to fetch metadata for my local media collection. I imagine their servers log those requests, each filename, the metadata pulled, IPs, and timestamps, and that they keep that data around for at least some length of time. Not sure how many sell that data, but what I'm listening to isn't really anyone else's business and I don't want the RIAA or anyone else to use that information as evidence against me somehow or coming around asking for proof of purchase for every MP3 they got from those logs.

squarefoot2• 2 years ago

I'm still paranoid that Spotify will disappear one day and I'm afraid to lose my older music collection.

Services eventually disappear. Not many people recall about Vitaminic, a gem of the early 2K that along MySpace gave countless unknown artists and bands the opportunity to put their music online, then one day poof! and it was gone with all its content. I had saved a few quite interesting tracks on my hard drive and attempted to search for the artists in the hope they moved elsewhere, but no way: they were gone forever. So, screw online services: I'm not going to waste any energy in something whose kill switch is in someone else's hand.

thaumasiotes2• 2 years ago

If the artists didn't own their own copyrights, there's a good chance that their stuff is available somewhere else by now. There are many companies out there that do nothing but put your music onto spotify and youtube for exposure; anything owned by a label is probably there.

salynchnew• 2 years ago

Fun fact is that I have at least one CD where there was an audio track misprint (one track repeated). I didn't actually notice until I ripped it and used Picard to analyze the tracks.

I also once found two tracks where Spotify's own data was wrong (wrong audio files associated with the album/track names).

After failing in my attempts to escalate it through Spotify support several times, I ended up having to reach out to Glenn MacDonald on Twitter to get it fixed.

wismut• 2 years ago

I spent the better half of my teenage days carefully tagging my music library with this.

SamBam• 2 years ago

I know. I really miss my old iTunes library. I had the genres and other metadata just the way I liked them.

In my quest to find an offline MP3 player for my kid, I spent a bunch of time looking at models, but none of them give you the ability to sort (and shuffle) by artist, album, and genre the way the old iPods did.

noman-land2• 2 years ago

I still consider a well tagged library to be a badge of honor

looping8• 2 years ago

It's a sign of dedication and how much time someone could have before social media and/or becoming old

Venn1• 2 years ago

EasyTAG is a serviceable cross-platform alternative.

thriftwy• 2 years ago

EasyTAG is great in the sense that it has sufficient set of knobs to digest all kinds of MP3 tags seen in the wild, and then convert them to the preferred format.

tcsenpai• 2 years ago

Such a throwback. I need a Windows 2000 virtual machine now.

Springtime2• 2 years ago

I'm glad the sole dev is able to support themselves by donations from this and now their paid Mac version. It's been an indispensable tool for batch audio tagging and the community is very helpful.

UberFly• 2 years ago

So true. Whenever I need to use it I go and look for an update first and am always relieved (and amazed) that it's still going 20 year later. Best example of software done right.

billfor2• 2 years ago

Media Monkey is great also if you have a large collection. I use the ratings and occasion tags to organize my collection. I like how the meta data is part of the mp3 so you take it wherever your mp3 goes. I guess it’s not economically viable to have a streaming service to allow such flexible customization. mp3gain from 2005 is another indispensable part of a large mp3 collection.

distances3• 2 years ago

mp3gain from 2005 is another indispensable part of a large mp3 collection.

Do you use it for portable mp3 players? Wondering why mp3gain instead of ReplayGain capable player, seems wrong to edit the music data itself instead of just tagging the gain values.

billfor2• 2 years ago

mp3gain is at the frame level. Sonos in particular does not honor ReplayGain. So the workflow is to adjust the volume with mp3gain, then re-analyze those levels and set the ReplayGain. That way it plays on devices that don't honor Replay Gain. Sonos sucks for local mp3s - it's the only way to get the volume to come out the same for everything.

noman-land2• 2 years ago

Impeccable tagging is something to strive for. I would look at the music libraries of my friends and be disgusted by the chaos.

joeywas• 2 years ago

This and winamp saw lots of use on my computers back in the early 2000s. I still have spools of CDs full of mp3s i painstakingly tagged. :|

LeoPanthera• 2 years ago

I've been using Kid3 on my Mac: https://kid3.kde.org

It's not a native Mac app, so it's not really ideal, but it does work very well.

79a6ed87• 2 years ago

Kid3 is wonderful! Love it, and it has both GTK and Qt frontends

johnvaluk• 2 years ago

And a CLI you can use interactively or for automation (once you get the quoting right).

jonpurdy• 2 years ago

Interesting; I just discovered and used this tool a month ago. For years I've been wanting to migrate my few hundred remaining MP3 files from iTunes/Music to just store them on the file system but iTunes DB stores play count and star rating in their DB, not in the file itself.

Turns out that there's no standard tag for this, but the most common (from what I searched was POPULARIMETER, where you store it in EMAIL|RATING|PLAYCOUNTER format. Email is a string (optional), rating is an int 0-255※, and playcounter as an integer.

So I wrote a Python script that would read the file on disk, match it with the entry in iTunes DB, populate POPULARIMETER, then verify everything was set correctly in MP3tag.

This took a few hours to do, mostly due to discovering how to do it and verifying everything worked correctly. Unfortunately the MP3 players I use now (VLC and mpv) don't support updating the POPULARIMETER field, so it'll be left as an unchanging relic from my iTunes days.

※ - 1 star → 0.2x255 = 51, 2 star → 0.4x255 = 102, etc

verytrivial• 2 years ago

Ha! Yes, play count (and reasonable if not always to my taste) tagging is about all I miss from iTune, and iTunes and Time Machine is about all I miss from Mac OS. I used to have "Smart Playlist" or whatever it was called that would randomly select say 30 songs with a play count less than 3 to put on my Shuffle to keep me out of musical ruts. I miss that.

blueboo• 2 years ago

Love mp3tag. And now in 2024 we can go one step further -- LLMs are the ultimate solution to finally tagging your entire collection consistently.

highspeedbus• 2 years ago

I feel uneasy every time someone casually advocates the use of LLMs for a task. Sounds dirty.

Hard to explain.

internet2000• 2 years ago

For a Mac OS equivalent, I’m a big fan of Metadatics https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metadatics/id554883654?mt=12

sunaookami• 2 years ago

Mp3Tag exists as a native app for macOS: https://mp3tag.app/

djkoolaide• 2 years ago

I use both the Windows and macOS version almost daily (work vs home), and I'm happy to report that the macOS version is just as efficient as the Windows one when dealing with huge directories. I regularly have to deal with thousands of files at a time, and it just zips through them. One of my all-time favorite applications, no doubt.

ashconnor• 2 years ago

I always forget which software I used to tag a rip that I do once in a blue moon.

I have TriTag in my bash history:

TriTag https://github.com/korseby/TriTag

sonar_un• 2 years ago

I use metadatics frequently as well. Great program.

cageface• 2 years ago

My Mac player also supports tag editing. It’s a bit basic right now but more features are in the works:

https://plastaq.com/minimoon

thirdsun3• 2 years ago

I'd like to recommend Meta: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

Great piece of software, that has served me well for years.

AdmiralAsshat• 2 years ago

Man, I wish teenage me had known about this one, rather than using a pirated copy of Tag&Rename.

Being able to pull tag data from Amazon was really useful, though...

conradfr• 2 years ago

I actually have a license for Tag&Rename, it's good software, but Window only.

ggm4• 2 years ago

Genre started out useful. Five or six categories. Classical made sense. Pop made sense.

Now, I have to decide if this is West Coast electro skiffle or its Canadian folk influenced digital beats.

We wind up needing another tag, to do classical/pop/folk in.

Also, players don't agree on artist/composer/orchestra or on movement numbering, you can't even rely on BWV. I've had multiple CD sets split by the amazing variance of back catalogue mining meaning an 11 part cd set of Chopin can match a 9 or 10 part set and a single release cd or two.

The taggers are fine. The information model is a nightmare, matched only by how hard approximation of date is in EXIF

jonathankoren2• 2 years ago

Genre has always been a mess. For a while Primus was a ID3Tag genre in unto themselves. In general, that type of inherently fuzzy categorical will always be a mess. I’m old enough to remember the great alt.music.industrial wars over whether Nine Inch Nails was industrial or not.[0]

The problem with ID3 back when I was ripping and encoding stuff back at the turn of the century was that they were fixed length fields. Using CDDB better as a source of truth, but even it had serious inconsistency issues. Not from a data quality perspective, but from a data format perspective. It quickly became a pile of inconsistencies, particularly around artists and multiple artist albums. In the end, I ended up extending it with a better format I called eCDDB. Of course there was no one interested in fixing the format, because CDDB got sold some megacorp, and FreeDB simply ignored the obvious problems.

[0] Reznor won a Country Music Award in 2019, so that settles it. He’s country.

ggm4• 2 years ago

But "old town road" by Lil Nas and Billy Ray Cyrus gets kicked off the country playlist.

amlib• 2 years ago

About 10 years ago I went on a massive retagging of my library and decided to use the "Grouping" tag as a high level genre tag, while the actual "Genre" would contain all the messy/impossible to normalize subgenres. This was a suggestion I picked up from some article I read back then and seemed like a good idea, plus it was supported by a tagging plugin in MusicBrainz Picard. There were problems with mp3s that used older tagging formats and it was ultimately resolved by upgrading those to a newer version of id3. But what ultimately broke the deal was that most players had spotty or no support at all for the "Grouping" tag. Pretty much nothing wants to use the "Grouping" tag as a genre filter, if they even acknowledge its existence at all.

What made it even more frustrating was that I already had to restrict (and still do) to players that properly support "Album artist" tags if I want sensible filtering/searching/listing of albums that have multiple artists credited or is a compilation of songs from different artists. So I was left with a paltry selection of players that properly supported everything I wanted (and didn't suck), couldn't even setup a subsonic server (although that had other issues too..), and NO SINGLE android app could deal with it.

I eventually had to revert all this nonsense and use the "Genre" tag as god (apparently) intended.

So moral of the day, (or TL;DR) don't do weird shit with tags.

jzb2• 2 years ago

"The taggers are fine. The information model is a nightmare"

*Truth*. I find it really frustrating to only be able to assign one genre and one grouping to a song or album. Rating is another one. A 0-5 system is woefully insufficient to rate music. (If I had my way, it would adopt Robert Christgau's grading system[1] that runs from "Dud" to "A+"...)

[1] https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php

thirdsun3• 2 years ago

Some of the better media players and library management tools will allow a delimiter in the Genre field to allow multiple genre tags. Personally, I'm using Roon which lets you set such a delimiter to look for in the genre tag.

xd1936• 2 years ago

I've been using Puddletag[1] on Linux as an Mp3tag replacement and it works quite well.

1. https://docs.puddletag.net/

beretguy3• 2 years ago

mp3tag works flawlessly through wine too.

farmerbb• 2 years ago

Thanks, going to try this out. Mp3tag is one of the few apps I use regularly that I've still been resorting to firing up a Windows VM for (or running it through Wine).

aquova• 2 years ago

I've always used Kid3 on Linux

jzb2• 2 years ago

Kid3 has been my go-to for a long time, but lately I've been using Strawberry[1] as my all-in-one music player, organizer, and tagger.

It has a built-in tag editor with MusicBrainz support and will auto-organize files. My only complaint with that is that it leaves behind old folders and files. e.g. If I have a few directories of MP3/Flac/whatever downloads with cover scans, it'll happily use the tags to organize the way I like it* but if there are "extra" files they stay put and have to be cleaned up manually.

But it's really a proper Swiss Army Chainsaw for doing everything in one application.

* Proper directory structure is "Artist/(YYYY) Album Name/NN-Song Title.[mp3|aac|flac]"

[1] https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ -- a fork of Clementine, which was a fork of Amarok.

squidbeak• 2 years ago

It's been my stalwart for years, and I appreciate it very much. But it's nowhere near as finished a product as mp3tag, with much greater fragility. For instance, right now after the last update, which throws a python error. Mp3tag on the other hand has worked flawlessly and in every conceivable way since the dawn of time. Like foobar2000, it's one of the best pieces of software ever written.

anonymousiam• 2 years ago

Closed source and no Linux support.

ape4• 2 years ago

You can use the command line tool:

    id3tag --artist Nirvana Lithium.mp3

beretguy3• 2 years ago

It works flawlessly through wine.

chrisjj• 2 years ago

Closed source

Thank goodness. Just imagine what a mess it would be with 100 cooks.

echelon_musk• 2 years ago

ExFalso / QuodLibet is a good alternative.

bigstrat2003• 2 years ago

Neither of which is relevant.

rc_kas• 2 years ago

$25 dollars???!?!?

no thanks

beretguy3• 2 years ago

Is $11 for Spotify every month better?

Crono• 2 years ago

Its an optional donation. This is freeware ...

fourfun2• 2 years ago

Not on Mac. Absolutely worth it though

eliasson• 2 years ago

Apparently ID3 included some strange frames such as the Popularimeter (POPM) for storing emails and ratings! lawik goes through some om them in this post which I found entertaining.

https://underjord.io/id3-specification-and-speculation.html

mek6800d2• 2 years ago

I came across his article about a month ago and likewise enjoyed it. I was a little disappointed (but only a little) when I discovered afterwards that his suggestion of using event time codes to set off explosives on stage was actually suggested in the ID3v2 standards themselves!

The fanciful ideas on the POPM frame were very interesting. The ID3v2 standards author's late 1990s, pre-massive-spam-onslaught design choice to include an email address seems kind of quaint now!

romdev• 2 years ago

I'm meticulous about tagging and backing up MP3s for different mixes in car stereos and other devices. One problem is that I have so many MP3s and different copies I don't know which are tagged and when they were ripped. I prefer to retain the file's modified date when I just update tags so I'll know how old the rip is - bit rates have increased a bit since last century.

I wrote a Powershell script that sets the date a minute newer when it updates ID3 V1 tags so I can compare files and know that one came from 2005 and has had metadata updated since then. I haven't found a bulk tagger that does this.

ender341341• 2 years ago

You should consider just adding a `ripped on` tag, or if you're worried about it being a bad encoding then consider re-ripping from sources into a lossless format.

distances3• 2 years ago

so I'll know how old the rip is - bit rates have increased a bit since last century.

It's easy to see which bitrate a track/album has, you don't need to keep dates for that? What's harder to see is what encoder was used -- modern LAME at even 128kbps is a totally different game than some 90s Xing or Fraunhofer.

Better would of course be to have lossless files of the originals and mass convert to mp3 when needed, but I suppose that's a different discussion.

Springtime2• 2 years ago

I prefer to retain the file's modified date when I just update tags so I'll know how old the rip is

Mp3Tag has a timestamp preservation setting. There's also the ability to run an external script/program on all selected files (via the Tools sub-menu of the context menu) or by configuring File>Export with a script.

For those wanting to preserve original timestamps I'd suggest storing them into custom tags in the files themselves as a backup. Mp3Tag can be set up to do this automatically using an Action (its scripting syntax). That way one can always restore them back using a script.

toastercat• 2 years ago

I still use this to maintain my music library, which I then listen to with either foobar2000 or cmus.

daneel_w• 2 years ago

I stopped bothering with MP3s over a decade ago in favor of AAC (in .m4a) and for that I use AtomicParsley (https://github.com/wez/atomicparsley) on the command line...should anyone be looking for such a tool.

mttpgn• 2 years ago

To modify tags on MP3 files programmatically, I have found the Mutagen library works well in Python.

fourfun2• 2 years ago

The Discogs integration is a great feature. I’ve checked out musicbrainz but it’s no where near as complete for the music I listen to.

ww5202• 2 years ago

Foobar2000 has a very good tag editor. I especially like how it can batch-sync the title tags from the filenames (via Properties -> Tools -> Automatically Fill Values). And the other way around to rename files using their tags (via File Operations -> Rename To). Super useful.

TiredOfLife• 2 years ago

It also has both musicbrainz and discogs (has albums that musicbrainz doesn't even have artists for) taggers

noema• 2 years ago

Shame that it is (basically) a Windows exclusive application.

ww5202• 2 years ago

It can run on Wine on Linux. Best of both worlds!

esafak• 2 years ago

I wrote one of these mp3 tag editors for personal use back in the day using C++Builder or Delphi. I can't remember which one but I remember it was a pleasant experience.

donatj• 2 years ago

Oh hey! There's a Mac version. I was literally looking for Mac Ape tag editor yesterday!

I used this way back on Windows 2000 in high school!

anotherevan• 2 years ago

Have used this for years. Still use it today on Linux under WINE as I just can't find anything else that is anywhere near as good.

Basically use Picard to fill in meta-data, then Mp3tag to tidy up, add the album art and tweak naming conventions to my preference when needed.

slmjkdbtl• 2 years ago

On macOS there's also Meta[0] which I found better than mp3tag.

You can also always use builtin Music.app for organization + tagging. I've been using it (or iTunes before) to manage my local music library for 10 years now and it's the best thing of my life, a big plus is I can also sync my library to my iPhone (altho the software quality downgraded a lot since the Big Sur rewrite). I also wonder if there's a cross platform alternative: a good tagger + a good player / organizer + easy to sync to phone + a good player on phone

[0] https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

mcoliver• 2 years ago

Awesome app. For programmatically modifying mp3 metadata with Python I have found mutagen to be really nice. https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen

kls0e• 2 years ago

Florian Heidenreich ftw!

manoweb• 2 years ago

What I was looking for is a tool to delete all tags from mp3s so the media players only show the file name. Directories for the band, subdues for each album and each song as a file is how I organize music, but audio players often add their own semantics to what should be a simpler concept.

Cockbrand• 2 years ago

This is trivial with the command line tool id3v2

DominikPeters• 2 years ago

In case someone finds it useful, I wrote a simple in-browser app for editing the chapter tags of an MP3 file (for podcasts), which can also edit some basic other tags like title and cover image: https://mp3chapters.github.io/ It's based on the node-id3 library, via browserify. It would likely be possible to build an in-browser batch tag editor with the same idea, which then wouldn't require installing an app.

dewey• 2 years ago

Great alternative for macOS: https://2manyrobots.com/yate/

Faskil• 2 years ago

Still the best. And totally worth it. <3

vojd• 2 years ago

I wrote a similar tool for Linux many years ago: https://github.com/fbngrm/DiscoPy

kybernetikos• 2 years ago

What I find frustrating is that we write these tools for each individual file format. Calibre for tagging books, this tool for tagging music, another tool for tagging images. This stuff should probably be supported directly for all kinds of files in the operating system.

briHass• 2 years ago

Windows can read/edit ID3 tags and many other types of metadata formats. It's hidden away in the details, but you can select those columns to show in a details directory view.

There's certainly no nice bulk tagging functionality, however.

icecap12• 2 years ago

I use a tool called TheGodFather

TomMasz• 2 years ago

I download a lot of FLAC recordings of taper-friendly bands and Mp3tag is indispensable. I wish it could easily read the info.txt files that usually accompany the recording and assign track names but that is about it.

jccalhoun• 2 years ago

I've just spent some time the last few days using this to clean up my music collection. I had a ton of duplicates in different bitrates but some were already tagged how I wanted them and some weren't. The tool is great but I wish it had some kind of side-by-side mode where it was easier to compare the tags of two files.

roryokane• 2 years ago

On macOS, I’m happily using Meta for Mac (€25) to edit music metadata tags of individual files: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/ .

I still store most of my music in iTunes (renamed to Music in later macOS versions). I’m also happy with the tag editing of iTunes, especially after installing some custom tag-editing AppleScripts from https://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php and modifying some of those scripts.

However, I am rethinking storing all my music in iTunes given that it can’t play Opus or FLAC files (last I checked) and it makes loud glitchy sounds when it plays an MP3 file whose sample rate is 32k instead of 44.1k. I’ve already had to give up on storing all my music files in the iTunes folder now that my entire music library doesn’t fit on my laptop’s storage. Thus, I have been using Meta more.

Edit: I see another commenter also mentioned Meta and Music.app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471849

nicoster• 2 years ago

I think this app really needs a backend so users can share/sync the tags (maybe based on the hash of a mp3 file)

thirdsun3• 2 years ago

Dear god, no. I don't even want to think about someone else messing up my library. I think music enthusiasts are very particular about their media and library management.

dakial1• 2 years ago

I miss Oink’s PP and what.cd

Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor

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