Music

Kid3 – audio tagging software

Kid3 is an open source Qt-based application to edit the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in MP3 files in an efficient way. These tags can be edited by most MP3 players, but not in a very comfortable way. Tags in Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio and WavPack files are supported too.

Where most other programs can edit either ID3v1 or ID3v2 tags, Kid3 has full control over both versions, can convert tags between the two formats and has access to all ID3v2 tags.

The tag information for full albums can be taken from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon or other sources of track lists. The import format is freely configurable by regular expressions.

kid3-cli provides a command-line-interface for Kid3.

Please note, Kid3 does not grab, encode nor play MP3 files.

Features include:

  • Edit ID3v1.1 tags.
  • Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames.
  • Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.
  • Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio and WavPack files.
  • Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together.
  • Generate tags from filenames.
  • Generate filenames from tags.
  • Rename and create directories from tags.
  • Generate playlist files.
  • Automatic case conversion and string translation.
  • Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon and other sources of album data.
  • Import and export album data.
  • Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats.
  • Edit synchronized lyrics and event timing codes, import and export LRC files.
  • Automate tasks using QML/JavaScript, D-Bus or the command-line interface.
  • Assign keyboard shortcuts to user actions.
  • Supports audiobook and podcast frames.

Website: kid3.kde.org
Support: Handbook, SourceForge
Developer: Urs Fleisch
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Kid3

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