beets Alternatives

beets is described as 'Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to beets for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best beets alternative is Mp3tag, which is free. Other great apps like beets are MusicBrainz Picard, MusicBrainz, MediaMonkey and Kid3.

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  1. Mp3tag icon
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    Edit audio and video metadata using a powerful tool supporting batch editing, various formats, and online databases. Free on Windows; $20 for macOS with features like renaming, tag importing, and playlist creation. Compatible with Linux and macOS using Wine.

    68 Mp3tag alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Mp3tag is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to beets.

    • Mp3tag is the most popular free alternative to beets.

    • Mp3tag is Free and Proprietarybeets is Free and Open Source
    • Mp3tag is Lightweightbeets is not according to our users
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    Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries -...

    67 MusicBrainz Picard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • PortableApps.com
     
    • MusicBrainz Picard is the most popular Linux alternative to beets.

    • MusicBrainz Picard is the most popular Open Source alternative to beets.

    • MusicBrainz Picard is Free and Open Sourcebeets is also Free and Open Source
    • MusicBrainz Picard is Lightweightbeets is not according to our users
  3. MusicBrainz icon
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    MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use...

    16 MusicBrainz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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    MusicBrainz is a website whereas beets is a tagger, beets can make use of MusicBrainz but they are not the same thing.

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    • Most users think MusicBrainz is a great beets alternative.

    • MusicBrainz is the most popular Web-based & Android alternative to beets.

    • MusicBrainz is Free and Open Sourcebeets is also Free and Open Source
  4. MediaMonkey icon
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    MediaMonkey is a music player and a music library manager with support for 50,000+ files and many features for organizing, tagging, converting and burning your music. It also has advanced podcasting and syncing features.

    123 MediaMonkey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
     
  5. Kid3 icon
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    If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you...

    63 Kid3 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
     
  6. TagScanner icon
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    TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text...

    59 TagScanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Puddletag icon
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    Puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created for) GNU/Linux similar to Mp3tag and Kid3. Unlike most taggers, it uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable.

    38 Puddletag alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. SimpleTag icon
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    SimpleTag is a Material You audio tagger built with Jetpack Compose. Supports most major audio and tag formats with jaudiotagger under the hood

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. SongKong icon
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    SongKong is a music organization and tagger app designed to simplify the task of managing your digital music collection automatically.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • SongKong is the most popular commercial alternative to beets.

    • SongKong is Paid and Proprietarybeets is Free and Open Source
  10. Jaikoz icon
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    Jaikoz is a powerful music tagger application that can automatically fix your music collection, and with powerful spreadsheet like editing as well.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Do you remember times when you first decided to keep your music library more tidy? You found out that the only solution was to fill in manually all songs info, one by one.

    64 Automatic Tag Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
    • Automatic Tag Editor is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to beets.

    • Automatic Tag Editor is Freemium and Proprietarybeets is Free and Open Source
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