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Puddle day

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Basic data

Publishing year July 13, 2008
Current  version 1.2.0
( November 27, 2016 )
operating system unixoid system
programming language python
License GNU General Public License
German speaking Yes
docs.puddletag.net

Puddletag is free software for adding and editing metadata for audio files under Unix-like operating systems such as GNU / Linux and is often considered one of the best of its kind.

It is also available as free software in source code under the conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). In most major Linux desktop distributions, it is available from the standard package sources . On Arch Linux (-based) it can be obtained from community repositories.

The user interface is based on the popular Windows freeware Mp3tag . It is structured in a table so that all tags that a user would like to edit by hand are visible and easy to edit. All of the other audio taggers available for Linux take a different approach to user interface design. The surface elements can be arranged freely. In line with the popular Windows model that it is intended to replace under Linux, it is also regularly praised for its particularly large range of functions and regularly recommended for more demanding users.

In July 2008 the first version (0.1) was published via SourceForge . The website counted several thousand downloads for each release before the project finally left the platform in early 2016 and was included in the repositories of most major Linux distributions. Version 1.0 was released in 2012, which introduced support for AcoustID.

Puddletag is written in Python 2.x and uses Qt 4 (via PyQt) for its graphical user interface. It uses Mutagen, a Python module for processing audio metadata, as a backend . Mutagen works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 (CPython and PyPy) and has no other dependencies besides the Python standard library.

Functionality

Puddletag (or mutagen) supports the tag formats ID3 (for MP3 etc.), APEv2 tags ( Monkey's Audio , WavPack , ...), Vorbis comment for audio formats Ogg family ( Opus , FLAC , Vorbis . ..) as well as those of MP4 ( AAC , M4A, ..., iTunes compatible), Advanced Streaming Format ( WMA ) and AIFF files. Unicode is fully supported (for ID3v2.3 with ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16 and for ID3v2.4 with UTF-8). ID3v1.1 and all versions of ID3v2 are supported and all standard ID3v2.4 fields are parsed. ID3 and APEv2 tags can be edited regardless of the audio format. It can also manipulate Ogg data streams at the level of individual packets / pages. It can read Xing headers to accurately calculate the bit rate and length of MP3 files.

Tag information can be imported from file / folder names, text files, the clipboard and from local databases with a freedb interface, or it can be obtained from online databases such as freedb , Discogs , MusicBrainz or Amazon (also via text search). File contents can be determined using the audio data using so-called acoustic fingerprints via the AcoustID database. Tag information can be exported in user-defined formats (for example HTML , RTF , CSV , XML , ASCII text and JSON ).

Puddletag can automatically write or remove tags en masse in several files in batch processing , including the possibility of enriching existing metadata from one or more metadata sources in a single operation. A preview function shows the changes before they are written to the files. Tagging results for single or multiple albums can be accepted, edited and rejected at the title and / or field level.

Embedded album covers and custom data fields are supported. Playlists can be created automatically .

Puddletag supports formatting tags and file names, can rename and / or move files and folders based on the tag information, iterate through subfolders recursively, and supports search and replacement of strings in tags and file names, even using regular expressions .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release 1.2.0 . November 27, 2016 (accessed March 15, 2018).
  2. ↑ Release 1.2.0 . November 27, 2016 (accessed August 15, 2020).
  3. ↑ www.openhub.net .
  4. ↑ github.com .
  5. ↑ Linux finally gets a great audio tagger. In: Ubuntu Geek. October 18, 2010, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Author Ricky Laishram: puddletag Is Probably The Best Audio Tagging Tool For Linux. In: Techie Buzz. January 11, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2019 (American English).
  7. ↑ Alex Miller: The 5 Best MP3 Tag Editing Tools For Linux [Guide]. In: Techniorg.com. December 7, 2018, Retrieved April 24, 2019 (American English).
  8. ↑ Elva: Best MP3 Tagger for Windows Mac OS Linux. October 25, 2018, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sunena Basheer: Best Mp3 tag editor for ubuntu - Puddletag 0.9.6. In: Multimedia boom. October 18, 2010, Retrieved April 24, 2019 (American English).
  10. ↑ Michael Deguzis: Software Spotlight - Organize Your Music With PuddleTag For Linux. In: The Linux Cauldron. December 30, 2013, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ https://repology.org/project/puddletag
  12. ↑ https://sourceforge.net/projects/puddletag/files/puddletag/
  13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160128205055/puddletag.sourceforge.net