The Best Mp3tag AlternativesTop Mp3 Tag & Metadata Editors like Mp3tag

Mp3tag is described as 'Edit and organize audio metadata easily with comprehensive support for batch editing and various audio formats. Available free for Windows; macOS version costs $20' and is a leading Mp3 Tag Editor in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mp3tag for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Mp3tag alternative is MusicBrainz Picard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mp3tag are Kid3, TagScanner, Puddletag and beets.

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  1. MusicBrainz Picard icon

    MusicBrainz Picard

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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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Python
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    Comments about MusicBrainz Picard as an Alternative to Mp3tag
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    The discription is wrong, it does download and save cover art.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    ChildishGiant
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    If its automatic recognition fails, you're screwed as you seemingly cannot manually give a tag to a file.

    Doaeol
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    MusicBrainz adds a bunch of own tags. Like a copy of every regular ID3 tag, it adds the same tag with a MusicBrainz id key. I dont use an MP3tagger to clutter my metadata even more. Looked in MusicBrainz options, but this cant be turned off. You can create a script to remove them, after MB adds them ..

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    • Most users think MusicBrainz Picard is a great Mp3tag alternative.

    • MusicBrainz Picard is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Mp3tag.

    • MusicBrainz Picard is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Mp3tag.

    • MusicBrainz Picard is Free and Open SourceMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    Kid3

     66 likes
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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
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    • Android
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
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    I moved from windows to mac and now Kid3 is working as a great mp3 id3 tag editor, found a great software, thanks alternativeto

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Kid3 is a great Mp3tag alternative.

    • Kid3 is the most popular Android alternative to Mp3tag.

    • Kid3 is Free and Open SourceMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    TagScanner

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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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    • Windows
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    The best tag editor I've ever seen!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think TagScanner is a great Mp3tag alternative.

    • TagScanner is Free and ProprietaryMp3tag is also Free and Proprietary
    • TagScanner is Privacy focusedMp3tag is not according to our users
  5. Puddletag icon

    Puddletag

     38 likes
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    spreadsheet editing, compatible with all tags

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Unable to easily create directories from tags.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Puddletag is a great Mp3tag alternative.

    • Puddletag is Free and Open SourceMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    beets

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    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.

    40 beets alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Tag&Rename

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    Tag&Rename is a music files tag editor that easily handles all popular digital audio formats. No matter what music compressor you prefer, you can keep your music collection organized with Tag&Rename.

    47 Tag&Rename alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Tag&Rename is the most popular commercial alternative to Mp3tag.

    • Tag&Rename is Paid and ProprietaryMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    EasyTAG

     101 likes
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    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.

    49 EasyTAG alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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    • Xfce
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    SongKong

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    SongKong is a music organization and tagger app designed to simplify the task of managing your digital music collection automatically.

    37 SongKong alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Meta for Mac

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    Meta is a powerful yet easy to use music tag editor for Mac. Batch edit audio metadata, rename files, replace characters, embed artworks, create playlists and more….

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Comments about Meta for Mac as an Alternative to Mp3tag
    Guest
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    Clean design, but more importantly, MacOS Catalina Support while MP3 tag is still working on porting over to native.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Meta for Mac is Paid and ProprietaryMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    Metadator

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    A simple yet complete metadata editor for your songs powered by TagLib and made with Material You and Jetpack Compose.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
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    OneTagger

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    Cross-platform music tagger written in Rust, Vue.js and Quasar. It can fetch metadata from Beatport, Traxsource, Juno Download and Discogs. It is also able to fetch Spotify's Audio Features based on ISRC & exact match.

    9 OneTagger alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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