Mp3tag
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 Mp3tag 2.44 on Windows 7 |
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| developer | Florian Heidenreich |
| Publishing year | May 24, 2000 |
| Current version |
3.02 ( July 11, 2020 ) |
| operating system | Windows and macOS |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | Tag editor |
| License | Freeware |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.mp3tag.de | |
Mp3tag is a tag editor for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS that Florian Heidenreich has been developing since 1999. The program primarily supports the editing of metadata in audio formats , but it also includes functions for managing music libraries.
Functions
Mp3tag supports most of the popular audio formats including AAC , ALAC , APE , FLAC , MP3 , MP4 , MPC , OGG , OFR, OFS , SPX , TAK, TTA , WV and WMA . Depending on the audio format, the tag formats ID3 (ID3v1, ID3v2), APE , Vorbis comment and MP4 are used.
The program offers a uniform interface for all formats and allows the definition of any tag fields that can also be displayed in the customizable user interface. Unicode is supported for input and output .
In addition to manual entry of metadata is also querying online - databases ( Amazon , Discogs , freedb , MusicBrainz ) offered which can be extended by custom scripts.
Mp3tag offers a number of actions that can be applied to filenames and tags and grouped into retrievable groups. Examples of such actions are changing file names according to defined patterns, importing tags and album covers, replacing characters and words (also with regular expressions ) and changing the case.
history
The first version of Mp3tag (v0.80) was officially released on May 24th, 2000 after several months of development. According to the developer, the basic motivation for developing the program lay in the limited possibilities for editing metadata in the then widespread media player Winamp .
Up to version 1.80 Mp3tag only supported MP3 with ID3v1 , with version 2.00 support for ID3v2 was introduced in the summer of 2002 after a long beta phase . In September 2002, with the support of Ogg Vorbis, the internal architecture of Mp3tag was expanded to include any audio format . Support for other audio formats has now been introduced at relatively short intervals.
In January 2004 the syntax for the single-digit placeholders used for renaming, export and import (e.g.% A for album) was changed to multi-digit placeholders (e.g.% album% for album), so that any metadata fields are now were supported. This new syntax was inspired by the one used in the foobar2000 media player .
In January 2005, the Web Sources Framework infrastructure created that importing metadata from any online - databases allowed. A community has developed around this infrastructure over the years, which makes user-defined scripts available and further develops them in the program's own forum .
In October 2005, the architecture was changed to the use of Unicode, thus ending the initially existing support for Windows 95 , Windows 98 and Windows ME . In the course of this, the library id3lib , which was previously used to read and write ID3v2 tags , was replaced by a proprietary implementation with Unicode and ID3v2.4 support.
In February 2008, support for Windows NT and Windows 2000 ended. The latest program versions for the operating systems that are no longer supported - version 2.32 for Windows 95, 98 and ME and version 2.39 for Windows NT and 2000 - are still available on the official website.
Awards
On October 16, 2009, Mp3tag in Wiesbaden was named "Software of the Year 2009" in the Freeware category of Deutsche Telekom's software portal Softwareload . Over 400,000 Internet users took part in the vote for this audience award .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hi, I'm Florian Heidenreich. In: fheidenreich.de. Retrieved April 29, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Florian Heidenreich: Mp3tag v3.02 released . July 11, 2020 (accessed July 14, 2020).
- ↑ October 16, 2009: Mp3tag was named Software of the Year 2009 by the Deutsche Telekom download portal Softwareload in the Freeware category. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .