EasyTag (stylised as EasyTAG) is a
graphical
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tag editor
A tag editor (or tagger) is a piece of software that supports editing metadata of multimedia file formats, rather than the actual file content. These are mainly taggers for common audio tagging formats like ID3, APEv2 tag, APE, and Vorbis comments ...
that is part of the
GNOME project. EasyTag runs on
Linux
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and
Microsoft Windows, and there was an attempt to bring EasyTAG to
OS X circa 2014.
It is written in
C and relies on
GTK+ and id3lib for graphics and
ID3 tag handling respectively. As of version 2.1.1, EasyTag also uses the tag manipulation library provided by the
MAD project, for support of ID3v2.4.
EasyTag is
free and open-source software subject to the terms of the
GNU General Public License
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version 2 or any later version.
Features
* Supported formats:
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...
,
MP2,
FLAC,
Opus
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Opus or OPUS may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publicatio ...
,
Speex
Speex is an audio compression codec specifically tuned for the reproduction of human speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on VoIP applications and podcasts. It is based on the CELP speech coding algorithm.Xiph.OrIntro ...
,
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The authors of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high-quality di ...
Vorbis
Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder (codec) for lossy audio compression. Vorbis is most commonly used in conj ...
,
MP4,
MPC,
APE
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and
WavPack
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* Available tag fields (depending on format): Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist, Copyright, URL, Encoder and Picture
* Automated tagging using presets and custom masks
* Rename files using tag information or external text files
* Apply changes in a field (Artist, Album...) to all selected files
* Read and display file header information (bitrate, time...)
*
CDDB
CDDB, short for Compact Disc Database, is a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. This is performed by a client which calculates a (nearly) unique disc ID and then queries the databas ...
support
* Tree based browser or a view by artist and album
* Recursion into subdirectories
* Playlist generator
* Undo/redo function
See also
*
List of tag editors
*
ID3
ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.
There are tw ...
*
M3U
M3U (''MP3 URL'' or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a st ...
References
External links
*
2000 software
Free audio software
Free software programmed in C
GNOME Applications
Tag editors
Tag editors for Linux
Tag editors that use GTK
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