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Mp3 tag editor for Mac? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/macos

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The infotainment system in my truck uses metadata tags to organize all of the music. I’ve the past few years I have thought I was doing something wrong with the new music I was adding, but apparently the Music app’s edits of the data were not “sticking “.

I found a large number of music I had added but was not available to play in the Unknown folder.

Are there any free, or cheap Mac apps for editing the data?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've used MusicBrainz Picard for this task on Mac in the past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This has a really screwy interface. After playing with it a bit I am unable to see where I can manually change/add tags (I add the release year to all I of my album tags), only download them. It added a lot of interesting tags, such as each instrument and who is playing it.

Something I will play with a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is still relevant, or if the mac version differs, but try right click on the tag area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I will check that. I did find an app that tags the way I want, but had issues with accents in track titles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For those of you looking for command line options, ffmpeg can do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've used the windows version of MP3Tag in the past. There's a Mac version but it's paid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I had looked at that one, I am going to give the trial a shot today to see if its tag editing actually changes the tags for my infotainment unit.

[–] satanmat 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

May not be quite the thing… media human

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That appears to have a lot of features… and a lot of different apps, but from what I saw it does not do and tagging.

[–] satanmat 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ahh. Right. Sorry. Normally for conversion it does the automatic tagging.

Which is what I normally do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah if I was doing file conversions I think this would work.