Ex Falso (tag editor)

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Ex Falso
Developer(s)
  • Nick Boultbee
  • Christoph Reiter
  • Steven Robertson
  • Iñigo Serna
  • Michael Urman
  • Joe Wreschnig
  • et al. [1]
Initial release30 October 2004;18 years ago (2004-10-30) [2]
Stable release
4.4.0 / 28 February 2021;2 years ago (2021-02-28) [2]
Repository
Written in Python, PyGTK
Operating system Linux, macOS, Windows [1]
Available inBasque, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish [2]
Type Tag editor
License GNU General Public License v2 [3]
Website quodlibet.readthedocs.io

Ex Falso is a free and open source, cross-platform audio tag editor [4] and library organizer. [5] It is a user interface sharing the same backend software as Quod Libet, minus the ability to play music. It is developed by the same software team responsible for Quod Libet. [1]

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Tag editing Features

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ex Falso / Quod Libet". GitHub . Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Changelog". Quod Libet. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  3. "License & Contributors". Quod Libet. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  4. Peddicord, Jacob (21 October 2007). "Fix your False Tags with Ex Falso". FOSSwire. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  5. Purdy, Kevin (30 October 2007). "Organize MP3 Metadata with Ex Falso". Lifehacker . Retrieved 5 July 2016.