Mp3tag

Mp3tag is a tag editor for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, the Florian Heidenreich since 1999 - has been developed and is - initially available for Windows 95, 98, ME, Windows NT and Windows 2000. The program primarily supports editing metadata in audio formats, but beyond that also functions for managing music libraries.

Functions

Mp3tag supports the most popular audio formats, including AAC, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, OFR, OFS, SPX, TAK, TTA, WV, and WMA. Here, depending on the audio format tag formats ID3 ( ID3v1, ID3v2 ), APE, Vorbis comment and MP4 used.

The program provides a unified interface for all formats and allows the definition of any tag fields that can be displayed in the customizable user interface. In the input and output Unicode is supported.

In addition to manually entering the metadata including searches of online databases (Amazon, Discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz ) is offered, which can be extended by custom scripts.

Mp3tag offers a range of actions that can be applied to file names and tags and summarized in again retrievable groups. Examples of such actions are changing file names according to defined patterns, import tags and album covers, replace characters and words ( with regexp ) and the case-change.

History

The first version of Mp3tag ( v0.80 ) was officially released after several months of development time on 24 May 2000. Prior to this date were already some pre-release versions in circulation, however, were not available to the general public. According to the developer of the original motivation for the development of the program lay in the limited options for editing metadata in the then popular media player Winamp.

Up to version 1.80 Mp3tag supported exclusively MP3 with ID3v1, with version 2.00 support for ID3v2 was the summer of 2002 after a long beta period officially introduced.

In September 2002, the internal architecture of Mp3tag has been extended to any audio formats with the support of Ogg Vorbis. In a relatively short intervals, the support for other audio formats now been introduced.

In January 2004, the syntax for the used to rename, export and import -digit placeholders (eg % A for album ) has been changed to multi-digit placeholders (eg % album % for album ), which by many users initially criticized been. After this change, however, the support of any metadata fields meant predominated in this context, the advantages of the modification. This new syntax was inspired by the syntax used in media player foobar2000.

In January 2005, an infrastructure was created with the Web Sources Framework that allows you to import metadata from any online databases. To this infrastructure, over the years a community has developed custom scripts and provides further developed in the forum.

In October 2005, the architecture so that the support for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME was converted to the use of Unicode and terminated. As part of the library previously used for reading and writing ID3v2 tags id3lib was replaced by an in-house implementation with Unicode and ID3v2.4 support.

In February 2008, finally, the support for Windows NT and Windows 2000 was terminated, which was in turn criticized by some users. The last versions of the program for unsupported operating systems - Version 2:32 for Windows 95, 98 and ME and 2:39 version for Windows NT and 2000 - but are still available on the homepage.

Awards

On 16 October 2009 Mp3tag was named in Wiesbaden for the " Software of the Year 2009" in the category of freeware software portal Software Load Deutsche Telekom. In the Audience Award over 400,000 Internet users took part in the vote.