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Puddletag

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Linux
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (11)
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Features

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  1.  Mp3 Tag Editor
  2.  Tagging
  3.  Support for regular expressions
  4.  Batch Rename Files
  5.  Portable

 Tags

  • id3
  • audio-tagging

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Puddletag information

  • Developed by

    Concentricpuddle
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5 (11 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    37 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Audio & MusicFile Management

GitHub repository

  •  484 Stars
  •  62 Forks
  •  227 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 10, 2025 
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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Puddletag, and it has gotten 36 likes

Puddletag was added to AlternativeTo by Kahlil88 on Jan 10, 2011 and this page was last updated May 8, 2024.

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Top Positive Comment
barfant
Jun 24, 2024
0

Have you searched for an alternative to Mp3tag on Linux? This is it. It has, just as Mp3tag, the very best user interface you can have for editing tags on a large amount of files - basically a spreadsheet. But with advanced tagging functions for mass tagging too. I have seen no other media tagger using the spreadsheet type of interface, and it has been one of several small things that kept me away from Linux. And finally I found it - Thank You!

Richard Sharpe
Mar 17, 2022
0

Used for tagging several thousand numerically named .MP3 files. Worked fantastically!

Mahdy Abdelmotaleb
Dec 25, 2020
0

Much better than EasyTAG! Great for people who want actual control over what goes into the tag fields. Just like in Mp3tag.

scrat
Apr 25, 2020
0

working very well with large libraries.

supports regular expressions.

The problem is: it is written in python2... soon it will rot, as support for python2 is closed.

Roman Gorodeckij
Apr 18, 2018
0

This is most clean tagger I've came across in Linux

Takeshi_Kovacs
May 27, 2017
3

This is a simple and powerful tool to suit up your downloaded mp3-junk. 3 clicks - and your library looks like a drugstore.

Picard and "EasyTag" - 3000% motherfucking piece of shit!!! Puddletag rules motherfucka! From Russia witn love.

Ranogard
Mar 9, 2017
2

overall very much like mp3tag

Unfortunately it stores the Actions differently than mp3tag, which makes it kindof not really an alternative if you don't want to spend hours typing in your actions again. The function $strrchr is not supported in puddletag. You also have to take care not to encapsulate your functions with quotes, because in that case they will be printed instead of executed. Square brackets are also not supported. As puddletag is designed to be similar to mp3tag they should try to make a mp3tag-actions import working.

Still, it is nice that there is the possibility to make your own Actions. I'll keep using it.

Actions are located in .local/share/puddletag/actions

[Edited by Ranogard, March 09]

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What is Puddletag?

Puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created for) GNU/Linux similar to Mp3tag. 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.

The usual tag editor features are supported like extracting tag information from filenames, renaming files based on their tags by using patterns (that you define, not crappy, uneditable ones).

Then there're Functions, which can do things like replace text, trim, change the case of tags, etc. Actions can automate repetitive tasks. You can import your QuodLibet library, lookup tags using MusicBrainz, FreeDB or Amazon and more.

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