Mp3tag

Mp3tag
Original author	Florian Heidenreich
Initial release	before 2003 [1]
Stable release	v3.30 / May 29, 2025; 7 months ago (2025-05-29) [1]
Preview release	v3.30c / June 26, 2025; 6 months ago (2025-06-26) [2]
Written in	C++
Operating system	Windows and macOS
Size	4.21 MiB (32-bit); 4.65 MiB (64-bit) for stable release version
Available in	39 languages
List of languages Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type	Tag editor
License	Proprietary
Website	mp3tag.de/en

Mp3tag is a metadata tag editor that supports many popular audio file formats. ^[3] It is freeware for Microsoft Windows, while it is a paid application for Apple macOS in the Mac App Store. ^[4]

Features

Mp3tag has the following features: ^[3]

• Batch Tag Editing. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MPEG-4, WMA, APEv2 tags, and Vorbis comments to multiple files at once.
• Full Unicode support
• Support for embedded album cover art
• Automatically creates playlists
• Recursive subfolder support
• User-defined field mappings
• Remove parts of a tag or the entire tag from multiple files
• Rename files based on the tag information
• Import tags from filenames and text files
• Format tags and filenames
• Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
• Regular expressions
• Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e. HTML, RTF, CSV, XML and TXT)
• Import tag information from online databases like freedb, discogs, MusicBrainz or Amazon (also by text-search)
• Import tag information from local freedb databases
• Support for ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and ID3v2.4 with UTF-8

It includes support for the following audio formats: ^[3]

• Advanced Audio Coding (.aac)
• Apple Lossless Audio Codec (.alac)
• Audio Interchange File Format (.aif/.aifc/.aiff)
• Direct Stream Digital Audio (.dsf)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
• Matroska (.mka/.mkv)
• Monkey's Audio (.ape)
• MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4/.m4a/.m4b/.m4v)
• Musepack (.mpc)
• Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
• IETF Opus (.opus)
• OptimFROG (.ofr/.ofs)
• Speex (.spx)
• Tom's Audio Kompressor (.tak)
• True Audio (.tta)
• Windows Media Audio (.wma)
• WavPack (.wv)
• WAV (.wav)
• WebM (.webm)

Playlist example

The following is an example of an M3U playlist file for "Jar of Flies" album by "Alice in Chains" that was created by Mp3tag with the following custom option settings: ^{[5] [6] [7]}

• playlist extended info format = "%artist% - %title%"
• playlist filename format = "%artist%_%album%_00_Playlist.m3u"
• tag to filename conversion format = "%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%"

#EXTM3U #EXTINF:419,Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_01_Rotten Apple.mp3 #EXTINF:260,Alice in Chains - Nutshell Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_02_Nutshell.mp3 #EXTINF:255,Alice in Chains - I Stay Away Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_03_I Stay Away.mp3 #EXTINF:256,Alice in Chains - No Excuses Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_04_No Excuses.mp3 #EXTINF:157,Alice in Chains - Whale And Wasp Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_05_Whale And Wasp.mp3 #EXTINF:263,Alice in Chains - Don't Follow Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_06_Don't Follow.mp3 #EXTINF:245,Alice in Chains - Swing On This Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_07_Swing On This.mp3 

References

1. "Mp3tag Changelog". mp3tag.de. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
2. "Mp3tag Development Build Status". community.mp3tag.de. 6 September 2003. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
3. "Mp3tag Website". MP3tag. Archived from the original on January 12, 2026.
4. "Mp3tag" . Retrieved 9 November 2021.
5. MP3tag Export Settings.
6. MP3tag Playlist Settings.
7. MP3tag Scripting Functions.

External links

• Official website
• MP3tag developers
• Seth Rosenblatt (August 24, 2008). "Featured Freeware: Mp3tag". The Download Blog. CNET.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
• Joe Betz. MP3: Musik finden, laden, hören, brennen . Pearson Deutschland GmbH; 2004 [cited September 24, 2011]. ISBN   978-3-8272-6730-6. p. 162. (in German)