# Mp3tag > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mp3tag > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mp3tag.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3tag > Source revision: 1344159765 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Tag editor for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Please help improve this article by citing more sources. Find sources: "Mp3tag" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2026) Mp3tag Original author Florian Heidenreich Release before 2003[1] Stable release v3.33.1 / February 6, 2026; 4 months ago (2026-02-06)[1] Preview release v3.30c / June 26, 2025; 12 months ago (2025-06-26)[2] Written in C++ Operating system Windows and macOS Size 4.21 MiB (32-bit); 4.65 MiB (64-bit) for stable release version Available in 39 languages List of languages 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 Type Tag editor License Proprietary Website mp3tag.de/en **Mp3tag** is a metadata [tag editor](/source/Tag_editor) that supports many popular [audio file formats](/source/Audio_file_format).[3] It is [freeware](/source/Freeware) for [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows), while it is a paid application for [Apple macOS](/source/MacOS) in the Mac App Store.[4] ## Features Mp3tag has the following features:[3] - Batch Tag Editing. Write [ID3v1.1](/source/ID3v1), [ID3v2.3](/source/ID3v2), [ID3v2.4](/source/ID3v2), [MPEG-4](/source/MPEG-4), [WMA](/source/Windows_Media_Audio), [APEv2](/source/APEv2) tags, and [Vorbis comments](/source/Vorbis_comment) to multiple files at once. - Full [Unicode](/source/Unicode) support - Support for embedded album [cover art](/source/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](/source/Regular_expressions) - Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e. [HTML](/source/HTML), [RTF](/source/Rich_Text_Format), [CSV](/source/Comma-separated_values), [XML](/source/XML) and [TXT](/source/Text_file)) - Import tag information from online databases like [freedb](/source/Freedb), [discogs](/source/Discogs), [MusicBrainz](/source/MusicBrainz) or [Amazon](/source/Amazon.com) (also by text-search) - Import tag information from local [freedb](/source/Freedb) databases - Support for [ID3v2.3](/source/ID3v2) (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and [ID3v2.4](/source/ID3v2) with [UTF-8](/source/UTF-8) It includes support for the following audio formats:[3] - [Advanced Audio Coding](/source/Advanced_Audio_Coding) (.aac) - [Apple Lossless](/source/Apple_Lossless) Audio Codec (.alac) - [Audio Interchange File Format](/source/Audio_Interchange_File_Format) (.aif/.aifc/.aiff) - [Direct Stream Digital](/source/Direct_Stream_Digital) Audio (.dsf) - [Free Lossless Audio Codec](/source/FLAC) (.flac) - [Matroska](/source/Matroska) (.mka/.mkv) - [Monkey's Audio](/source/Monkey's_Audio) (.ape) - [MPEG Layer 3](/source/MP3) (.mp3) - [MPEG-4](/source/MPEG-4) (.mp4/.m4a/.m4b/.m4v) - [Musepack](/source/Musepack) (.mpc) - [Ogg Vorbis](/source/Vorbis) (.ogg) - [IETF Opus](/source/Opus_(audio_format)) (.opus) - [OptimFROG](/source/OptimFROG) (.ofr/.ofs) - [Speex](/source/Speex) (.spx) - Tom's Audio Kompressor (.tak) - True Audio (.tta) - [Windows Media Audio](/source/Windows_Media_Audio) (.wma) - [WavPack](/source/WavPack) (.wv) - [WAV](/source/WAV) (.wav) - [WebM](/source/WebM) (.webm) ## Playlist example The following is an example of an [M3U](/source/M3U) playlist file for "[Jar of Flies](/source/Jar_of_Flies#Track_listing)" album by "[Alice in Chains](/source/Alice_in_Chains)" that was created by Mp3tag with the following custom option settings:[5][6][7] - playlist extended info format = "%artist% - %title%" - playlist filename format = "%artist%_%album%_00_Playlist.m3u" - tag to filename conversion format = "%artist%_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title%" #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 ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-changelog_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-changelog_1-1) ["Mp3tag Changelog"](https://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html). *mp3tag.de*. Retrieved 2026-03-18. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Mp3tag Development Build Status"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-development-build-status/455). *community.mp3tag.de*. 6 September 2003. Retrieved 2022-12-02. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Mp3tag-homepage_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Mp3tag-homepage_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Mp3tag-homepage_3-2) ["Mp3tag Website"](https://www.mp3tag.de/en/). *MP3tag*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20260112160827/https://www.mp3tag.de/en/) from the original on January 12, 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Mp3tag"](https://mp3tag.app). Retrieved 9 November 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [MP3tag Export Settings.](http://help.mp3tag.de/options_export.html) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [MP3tag Playlist Settings.](http://help.mp3tag.de/options_playlist.html) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [MP3tag Scripting Functions.](http://help.mp3tag.de/main_scripting.html) ## External links - [Official website](http://www.mp3tag.de/en) - [MP3tag developers](http://developer.mp3tag.de/) - Seth Rosenblatt (August 24, 2008). ["Featured Freeware: Mp3tag"](https://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10023772-12.html). *The Download Blog*. CNET.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011. - Joe Betz. *[MP3: Musik finden, laden, hören, brennen](https://books.google.com/books?id=aI2fIwyPF0MC&pg=PA162)*. Pearson Deutschland GmbH; 2004 [cited September 24, 2011]. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-8272-6730-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-8272-6730-6). p. 162. (in German) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mp3tag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3tag) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3tag?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.