The Best Open Source Mp3tag AlternativesTop Mp3 Tag & Metadata Editors like Mp3tag

The best open source alternative to Mp3tag is MusicBrainz Picard. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Mp3tag and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Mp3tag are Kid3, Puddletag, beets and EasyTAG.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • PortableApps.com
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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
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
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    Guest
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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
  4. 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.
    Guest
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    EasyTAG

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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

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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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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    Metadata edition page
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Album Art Downloader icon

    Album Art Downloader

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    The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating plugin scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window with active album art search
     
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    Comments about Album Art Downloader as an Alternative to Mp3tag
    nembonoid
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    Can't really tag MP3s only download art covers

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    • Album Art Downloader is Free and Open SourceMp3tag is Free and Proprietary

  12. Demlo

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    Demlo organizes your music library automatically and dynamically. It runs a chain of user-defined scripts using variables such as tags and file properties. This way it yields virtually unlimited customization power to the user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Bulk ID3

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    Bulk ID3 is an en-masse ID3 tag editor. It is designed to allow bulk modification of mp3 files, as well as file renaming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    Bulk ID3's help
     
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    Media Tagger

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    Tagger is application that auto tags audio files. It also supports batch tag editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Multiple files can be edited at once.
     
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