{{Short description|Tag editor for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS}} {{one source|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox software | name = Mp3tag | logo = Mp3tag Logo.png | logo size = 240px | screenshot = | screenshot size = 300px | caption = Mp3tag 3.27c on [[Windows 10]] | author = [https://fheidenreich.de/apps/ Florian Heidenreich] | released = before 2003<ref name="changelog"/><!-- Per change log v2.09 was released on 2003-03-15, per webpage copyright starts at 1999 but need further proof for earlier date --> | latest release version = v3.33.1 | latest release date = {{Start date and age|2026|02|06|br=yes}}<ref name="changelog">{{cite web |url= https://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html |title= Mp3tag Changelog |website= mp3tag.de |access-date= 2026-03-18}}</ref> | latest preview version = v3.30c | latest preview date = {{Start date and age|2025|06|26|br=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url= https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-development-build-status/455 |title= Mp3tag Development Build Status |website= community.mp3tag.de |date= 6 September 2003 |access-date= 2022-12-02}}</ref> | programming language = [[C++]] | operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[macOS]] | size = 4.21 MiB (32-bit); 4.65 MiB (64-bit) for stable release version | language = Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | language count = 39 | genre = [[Tag editor]] | license = [[Proprietary license|Proprietary]] | website = {{URL|https://mp3tag.de/en}} }}
'''Mp3tag''' is a metadata [[tag editor]] that supports many popular [[Audio file format|audio file formats]].<ref name="Mp3tag-homepage">{{cite web |title=Mp3tag Website |url=https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ |website=MP3tag |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260112160827/https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ |archive-date=January 12, 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is [[freeware]] for [[Microsoft Windows]], while it is a paid application for [[macOS|Apple macOS]] in the Mac App Store.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mp3tag |url=https://mp3tag.app |first= |last= |date= |accessdate=9 November 2021}}</ref>
==Features== Mp3tag has the following features:<ref name="Mp3tag-homepage"/> * Batch Tag Editing. Write [[ID3v1|ID3v1.1]], [[ID3v2|ID3v2.3]], [[ID3v2|ID3v2.4]], [[MPEG-4]], [[Windows Media Audio|WMA]], [[APEv2]] tags, and [[Vorbis comment]]s to multiple files at once. * Full [[Unicode]] support * Support for embedded album [[cover art]] * Automatically creates playlists * Recursive subfolder support * User-defined field mappings * Remove parts of a tag or the entire tag from multiple files * Rename files based on the tag information * Import tags from filenames and text files * Format tags and filenames * Replace characters or words from tags and filenames * [[Regular expressions]] * Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e. [[HTML]], [[Rich Text Format|RTF]], [[Comma-separated values|CSV]], [[XML]] and [[Text file|TXT]]) * Import tag information from online databases like [[freedb]], [[discogs]], [[MusicBrainz]] or [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] (also by text-search) * Import tag information from local [[freedb]] databases * Support for [[ID3v2|ID3v2.3]] (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and [[ID3v2|ID3v2.4]] with [[UTF-8]]
It includes support for the following audio formats:<ref name="Mp3tag-homepage"/> * [[Advanced Audio Coding]] (.aac) * [[Apple Lossless]] Audio Codec (.alac) * [[Audio Interchange File Format]] (.aif/.aifc/.aiff) * [[Direct Stream Digital]] Audio (.dsf) * [[FLAC|Free Lossless Audio Codec]] (.flac) * [[Matroska]] (.mka/.mkv) * [[Monkey's Audio]] (.ape) * [[MP3|MPEG Layer 3]] (.mp3) * [[MPEG-4]] (.mp4/.m4a/.m4b/.m4v) * [[Musepack]] (.mpc) * [[Vorbis|Ogg Vorbis]] (.ogg) * [[Opus (audio format)|IETF Opus]] (.opus) * [[OptimFROG]] (.ofr/.ofs) * [[Speex]] (.spx) * Tom's Audio Kompressor (.tak) * True Audio (.tta) * [[Windows Media Audio]] (.wma) * [[WavPack]] (.wv) * [[WAV]] (.wav) * [[WebM]] (.webm)
==Playlist example== The following is an example of an [[M3U]] playlist file for "[[Jar of Flies#Track listing|Jar of Flies]]" album by "[[Alice in Chains]]" that was created by Mp3tag with the following custom option settings:<ref>[http://help.mp3tag.de/options_export.html MP3tag Export Settings.]</ref><ref>[http://help.mp3tag.de/options_playlist.html MP3tag Playlist Settings.]</ref><ref>[http://help.mp3tag.de/main_scripting.html MP3tag Scripting Functions.]</ref> <!-- NOTE: This example was posted by User:Sbmeirow --> * playlist extended info format = <code>"%artist% - %title%"</code> * playlist filename format = <code>"%artist%_%album%_00_Playlist.m3u"</code> * tag to filename conversion format = <code>"%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%"</code>
<pre> #EXTM3U #EXTINF:419,Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_01_Rotten Apple.mp3 #EXTINF:260,Alice in Chains - Nutshell Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_02_Nutshell.mp3 #EXTINF:255,Alice in Chains - I Stay Away Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_03_I Stay Away.mp3 #EXTINF:256,Alice in Chains - No Excuses Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_04_No Excuses.mp3 #EXTINF:157,Alice in Chains - Whale And Wasp Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_05_Whale And Wasp.mp3 #EXTINF:263,Alice in Chains - Don't Follow Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_06_Don't Follow.mp3 #EXTINF:245,Alice in Chains - Swing On This Alice in Chains_Jar of Flies_07_Swing On This.mp3 </pre>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.mp3tag.de/en}} * [http://developer.mp3tag.de/ MP3tag developers] * {{cite web |url= http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10023772-12.html |title=Featured Freeware: Mp3tag |author=Seth Rosenblatt |work=The Download Blog |publisher=CNET.com |date=August 24, 2008 |accessdate=September 24, 2011}} * Joe Betz. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aI2fIwyPF0MC&pg=PA162 MP3: Musik finden, laden, hören, brennen]''. Pearson Deutschland GmbH; 2004 [cited September 24, 2011]. {{ISBN|978-3-8272-6730-6}}. p. 162. {{in lang|de}}
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