Kid3

Kid3

Main window of Kid3 audio tagger
Developer(s)	Urs Fleisch
Stable release	3.9.6 (21 September 2024;8 months ago (2024-09-21) [1] ) [±]
Repository	invent.kde.org/multimedia/kid3
Written in	C++ [2]
Operating system	Android, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
Available in	34 languages [3]
List of languages Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic script), Serbian (Latin script), Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Valencian
Type	Tag editor
License	GNU General Public License
Website	kid3.kde.org

Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

Features

• Edit and convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.
• Access to all tag fields.
• Batch edit tags of multiple files.
• Generate tags from filenames or from the contents of other tag fields.
• Generate filenames from tags, rename and create directories from tags.
• Generate playlist files.
• Automatically convert upper and lower case and replace strings.
• Search and filter files by tags.
• Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon and other sources of album data.
• Automatic batch import of metadata and cover art for multiple albums from different sources.
• Import using acoustic fingerprints and AcoustID.
• Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats.

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• List of tag editors
• ID3
• M3U
• List of KDE applications

References

1. "Release schedule".
2. Kid3 at Ohloh ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
3. "KDE Localization Package Statistics: kid3". l10n.kde.org. KDE . Retrieved 6 August 2022.

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External links

• Official website