The Tagger AlternativesMp3 Tag Editors and other similar apps like The Tagger

The Tagger is described as 'MP3 and AAC tagger for Mac OS X that combines powerful features such Discogs integration and regex find/replace with an intuitive and elegant interface' and is a Mp3 Tag Editor in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to The Tagger for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best The Tagger alternative is MusicBrainz Picard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Tagger are Mp3tag, TagScanner, Kid3 and Tagger - Tag Your Music.

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The Tagger is an MP3 and AAC tagger for Mac OS X that combines powerful features such Discogs integration and regex find/replace with an intuitive and elegant interface.

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  1. MusicBrainz Picard icon
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    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 -...

    66 MusicBrainz Picard alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • PortableApps.com

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Automatic Tagging
    2.  Automatic album art download
    3.  Acoustic fingerprinting
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Mp3 Tag Editor
    6.  Fix missing information
    7.  AcoustID audio fingerprints
    8.  Autotagging
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Portable
    11.  Batch Rename Files
    12.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
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    MusicBrainz Picard VS The Tagger

    Is MusicBrainz Picard a good alternative to The Tagger?
     

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

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

    • MusicBrainz Picard is Free and Open SourceThe Tagger is Paid and Proprietary
    • MusicBrainz Picard is LightweightThe Tagger is not according to our users
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    Mp3tag

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    Mp3tag is a metadata editor for audio and video files.

    66 Mp3tag alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Top Mp3tag Features

    1.  Batch Editing
    2.  Metadata Editor
    3.  Mp3 Tag Editor
    4.  Batch Rename Files
    5.  Automatic album art download
    6.  Artwork
    7.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
    8.  File Tagging
    9.  Support for scripting
    10.  Ad-free
    11.  Support for regular expressions
    12.  Support for Unicode
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  4. TagScanner icon
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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...

    57 TagScanner alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Filename patterns
    Advanced tag editing
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    Amazon tags

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Portable
    4.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  No Tracking
    8.  No registration required
    9.  Batch Rename Files
    10.  Lossless Audio
    11.  Info & Tracklist rtf files w/t 1 click
    12.  Rename folders & files by storable presets
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  5. Kid3 icon
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    Kid3

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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...

    60 Kid3 alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Mp3 Tag Editor
    2.  Batch Editing
    3.  Batch Rename Files
    4.  Search and Replace
    5.  Support for regular expressions
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  Portable
    10.  No registration required
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    • Kid3 is the most popular Android alternative to The Tagger.

    • Kid3 is Free and Open SourceThe Tagger is Paid and Proprietary
    • Kid3 is LightweightThe Tagger is not according to our users
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    Tagger - Tag Your Music

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    An easy-to-use music tag (metadata) editor.

    40 Tagger - Tag Your Music alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub

    Tagger - Tag Your Music Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2.  Musicbrainz support
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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.

    36 SongKong alternatives
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    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Top SongKong Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  File Tagging
    5.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
    6.  Batch Rename Files
    7.  Batch Editing
    8.  Acoustic fingerprinting
    9.  Artwork
    10.  Full Automation
    11.  Musicbrainz support
    12.  Automatic Tagging
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    • SongKong is the most popular commercial alternative to The Tagger.

    • SongKong is Paid and ProprietaryThe Tagger is also Paid and Proprietary
  9. Meta for Mac icon
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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….

    41 Meta for Mac alternatives
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    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Meta for Mac Features

    1.  Batch Editing
    2.  Batch Rename Files
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Artwork
    5.  Batch processing
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    Music Tag

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    Music Tag is a powerful and easy to use program that automatically downloads track data and cover art to complete your music library. Modern music players like iTunes or Windows Media Player use data embedded into files to identify tracks.

    26 Music Tag alternatives
    Music Tag screenshot 1

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Music Tag Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Automatic album art download
    5.  Remove duplicates from iTunes
    6.  Acoustic fingerprinting
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    Jaikoz

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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.

    46 Jaikoz alternatives
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    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Jaikoz Features

    1.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Batch Rename Files
    5.  Batch Editing
    6.  File Tagging
    7.  Automatic Tagging
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  12. Automatic Tag Editor icon
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    Automatic Tag Editor

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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.

    62 Automatic Tag Editor alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    Automatic Tag Editor Features

    1.  Automatic Tagging
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    • Automatic Tag Editor is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to The Tagger.

    • Automatic Tag Editor is Freemium and ProprietaryThe Tagger is Paid and Proprietary
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    AudioShell

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    AudioShell is a freeware MS Windows Explorer shell extension plug-in which allows you to view and edit ID3 metadata tags directly in Windows Explorer. It supports all files and tags standards supported by Tag&Rename - mp3 tag editor.

    31 AudioShell alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer

    AudioShell Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    2.  Support for Unicode
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  14. Media Tagger icon
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    Media Tagger

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

    47 Media Tagger alternatives
    Multiple files can be edited at once.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Media Tagger Features

    1.  Automatic Tagging
    2.  Batch processing
    3.  Support for Batch Mode
    4.  Artwork
    Tagger supports editings album art, album art can extracted by dragging the image to a directory.
    Tagger supports Quicklook to play the audio files.
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    Tagger supports editing Finder labels.
    Discontinued

    The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 1.8, released in July 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.

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