A Good MP3 Tag editor

[SlugBlanket]

Can anyone please recommend a good MP3 Tag editor for use within OSX ?

I have tried MP3 Encoder and Tag from the App store but the first won't edit tags unless I'm encoding as well and Tag has practical limitations when editing multiple files.

Currently I'm using a Windows program on an old PC but while its a good program, the PC is on it's way out and bootcamp isn't an option.

The original music files are on my NAS but when I copy these albums to my local iTunes library there are so many inconsistencies and errors that I think its time to correct the errors before I bring the music into my library. This would have the added benefit of allowing other members of the family to add these NAS albums into their local libraries without us all duplicating the editing.

Ideally the program should be able to handle (save) multiple edits in one go much as iTunes can but it must also be able to edit wav, flac, and at a push wma files as well. Programs such as TuneUp are not what I need as those work best on the iTunes Library itself whereas I need to preserve any duplicates e.g. in historical charts as I will be working folder by folder on the NAS.

Any help is appreciated

[DrBubba]

I'm using ID3 Editor which you can find at http://www.pa-software.com/id3editor/. I've been using this editor to manage tags on a host of mp3 files like audiobooks, recorded audio & music files. You can edit the ID tags on a single mp3 file or you can select a group of files and edit the tags which the files share in common. For example on a series of music files you can edit the album title, artist, year, genre and more that's the same for all the files. When you click on "UPDATE" the edits are made in a flash. ID3 Editor costs $15 for a single license and when updates are released just contact Pa-Software for a free new license key. ID 3 Editor works great for me and maybe you'll like it as well.

[SlugBlanket]

Originally Posted by DrBubba

I'm using ID3 Editor which you can find at http://www.pa-software.com/id3editor/. I've been using this editor to manage tags on a host of mp3 files like audiobooks, recorded audio & music files. You can edit the ID tags on a single mp3 file or you can select a group of files and edit the tags which the files share in common. For example on a series of music files you can edit the album title, artist, year, genre and more that's the same for all the files. When you click on "UPDATE" the edits are made in a flash. ID3 Editor costs $15 for a single license and when updates are released just contact Pa-Software for a free new license key. ID 3 Editor works great for me and maybe you'll like it as well.

Thanks for the info ... i'll try it out

[katewes]

Tagr works nice and simple, although it only works for MP3 and MP4 - you seem to be needing something more complex.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30610/tagr

[BlackMangoTree]

I find this the best and it's free http://bilalh.github.com/projects/tagger/

[DubTEC]

I understood that You want to edit the tags before You import them into iTunes. I used to do that too. But since some time, I use and recommend Tune Instructor (http://www.tune-instructor.com/com/).

It only works in conjunction with iTunes as You e.g. select songs in iTunes, open Tune Instructor and based on Your selection You can call multiple tools.

The set of tools included is huge. To just name a few: Capitalization, search and replace to generating ID3 tags from file names (and vice versa).

From my point of view, You should give it a try!

[BlackMangoTree]

Here are some scripts that work with iTunes which turn iTunes into an amazing tag editor. http://dougscripts.com/itunes/

[WaterLover]

I'm new to all this, but I've got over 5,000 songs and have been using Kid3 as my Tag editor. It works great and is intuitive. It allows for changing tags on multiple files - even across albums and artists.

Additional features: You can easily rename filenames from tags, tags from filenames, capitalize filenames and/or tags, automatically replace characters (i.e., '-' for ':') as you input and drag and drop album art - for one song or for as many songs at one time as you want - even across albums and artists. You can also add / delete / move files in the Finder and the changes will automatically, and instantly, be reflected in Kid3. Also, it appears to work just as easily with all file formats. You can also play a song within Kid3 (although it appears not to be able to play .wma files).

I wish it had a great find & replace feature, but otherwise it works great. It's very easy to use - even with large collections.

I've tried some of the other tag editors suggested here and find them to either be confusing to use or not as feature rich as Kid3.

According to Kid3: "Kid3 is an application to edit the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in MP3 files in an efficient way. Also tags in Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, APE, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM) are supported. It is easy to set tags of multiple files to the same values (e.g. album, artist, year and genre in all files of the same album) and generate the tags from the file name or vice versa."

You can find it at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kid3/?source=directory.

[SlCKB0Y]

Originally Posted by SlugBlanket

Can anyone please recommend a good MP3 Tag editor for use within OSX ?

Tagr is my favourite:
http://www.entwicklungsfreu.de/tagr.jsp

[georgeliu]

you may want to try Music Tag Editor for mac, see their website http://www.edysoft.com/?page_id=31 , I found this app is useful for me to edit MP3 and flac Tags, Also the rename function is enabled at new version.
Good luck!

----------

Originally Posted by SlugBlanket

Can anyone please recommend a good MP3 Tag editor for use within OSX ?

I have tried MP3 Encoder and Tag from the App store but the first won't edit tags unless I'm encoding as well and Tag has practical limitations when editing multiple files.

Currently I'm using a Windows program on an old PC but while its a good program, the PC is on it's way out and bootcamp isn't an option.

The original music files are on my NAS but when I copy these albums to my local iTunes library there are so many inconsistencies and errors that I think its time to correct the errors before I bring the music into my library. This would have the added benefit of allowing other members of the family to add these NAS albums into their local libraries without us all duplicating the editing.

Ideally the program should be able to handle (save) multiple edits in one go much as iTunes can but it must also be able to edit wav, flac, and at a push wma files as well. Programs such as TuneUp are not what I need as those work best on the iTunes Library itself whereas I need to preserve any duplicates e.g. in historical charts as I will be working folder by folder on the NAS.

Any help is appreciated

you may want to try Music Tag Editor for mac, see their website http://www.edysoft.com/?page_id=31 , I found this app is useful for me to edit MP3 and flac Tags, Also the rename function is enabled at new version.

[SlugBlanket]

Originally Posted by georgeliu

you may want to try Music Tag Editor for mac, see their website http://www.edysoft.com/?page_id=31 , I found this app is useful for me to edit MP3 and flac Tags, Also the rename function is enabled at new version.
Good luck!

----------



you may want to try Music Tag Editor for mac, see their website http://www.edysoft.com/?page_id=31 , I found this app is useful for me to edit MP3 and flac Tags, Also the rename function is enabled at new version.

For now various Doug's Scripts and Tagger are doing the job within OSX. I'd already seen this app (Music Tag Editor) in the App Store but the customer reviews were enough to convince me to look elsewhere. Thanks for the input though

[firstrev360]

I use Tagr, it supports integration with Discogs.

[pknz]

I used Tagr as well but have recently moved to Metadatics.

It's a bit more advanced than Tagr, but it's not free.

http://www.markvapps.com/metadatics/