EasyTAG
EasyTAG is a versatile utility for viewing and editing tags on various audio files with features like auto-tagging, undo/redo changes, and CDDB support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUAlerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Xfce
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.4.3, released in December 2016, is still available from GitLab
EasyTAG News & Activities
Recent activities
- mduderson reviewed EasyTAG
Discontinued. Use MusicBrainz Picard.
Danilo_Venom added EasyTAG as alternative to TidyTag Music Tag Editor
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What is EasyTAG?
EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags.
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View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/AAC (MP4/AAC tag), MusePack, Monkey's Audio files and WavPack files (APE tag),
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Can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL, Encoder name and attached Picture,
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Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the fields (using masks),
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Undo and redo last changes,
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Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into uppercase, downcase, ...),
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Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program, CDDB support using Freedb.org and Gnudb.org servers (manual and automatic search),
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A tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album,
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A list to select files,
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A playlist generator window,
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A file searching window,
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Simple and explicit interface!,
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Written in C and uses GTK+ 2 for the GUI,
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Package available for GNU/Linux and Windows.
EasyTAG information
Developed by
Jerome Couderc Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
Fantastic, easy, free, open source and lightweight program for managing music metadata (artist, album, track...). A joy to use.
These three bugs make it unusable. I should have removed while ago.
[Edited by Jakeukalane, May 23]
Discontinued. Use MusicBrainz Picard.
It's just crap, so unreliable I can't it recommend for anything. You edit some files, press save, and it does alter your files somehow but it doesnt change the tags or cover.
Have you read the manual? Or a tutorial something like this: helpdeskgeek.com/reviews/edit-id3-tags-in-linux-and-windows-with-easytag/ ....
I don't find out how you can edit multiple files in the same time ...
Read the manual! For those finding this answer in 2020 or later.. try a tutorial online such as helpdeskgeek.com/reviews/edit-id3-tags-in-linux-and-windows-with-easytag/ (or another)
If you have files in the same folder, you can multiple select the files by clicking & using the shift or control keys, same as a file explorer program, while you are in one of the files. Then, say, you can select all files in the left pane that are in the same album.. or have the same artist name. Change whichever field you want in that particular song/file and select save from the file menu button at the top of EasyTag. This will change all of the files you selected in the left pane to use whatever is in the field you changed. That's the easy way, but non-graphical way. If, though, you have say, 20 songs in a folder, and wish to select all songs in that folder to change, you can select that folder, then click the edit button at the top of EasyTag, and then the select all button. When you do it this way, the right pane opens to a tab called "common" where you can input data in each field common to all those files, then save. That's it!
Very easy to use. This app seems to be most often described as used for editing audio files, but it works just as well in editing video file information.
I use this all the time when I am editing the tag information, it is fast and easy for me. It does everything I want it to do.