Kid3 is an
open-source cross-platform
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audio
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 ...
for many audio file formats. It supports
DSF,
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 ...
,
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 ...
,
FLAC,
MPC,
MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b),
AAC,
Opus
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Opus or OPUS may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publicatio ...
,
SPX,
TrueAudio,
APE
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,
WavPack
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,
WMA,
WAV
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,
AIFF
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,
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 fro
gnudb.orgTrackType.org
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a MetaBrainz project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for so ...
, Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the ...
, Amazon
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* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
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
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, playlists
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, Kover XML and in other formats.
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 ...
* List of KDE applications
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External links
* {{Official website
Audio software that uses Qt
Cross-platform free software
Free audio software
Free software programmed in C++
Linux audio video-related software
Tag editors
Tag editors for Linux
Tag editors that use Qt