Last Updated on August 11, 2021
In Operation
Here’s an image of GabTag in operation.

The interface is divided into two halves. On the left hand side we have a list of the tracks, and the right hand side is devoted to tags. Editing is simple. Edit the tags and click the Save all button in the program’s header bar. You can add, modify or delete basic tags (title, album, artist, genre).
Features include:
- Album art.
- Fetch album and track details from MusicBrainz and lyrics.wikia.
- Lyrics support.
Summary
GabTag is an easy-to-use tool for editing existing tags in bulk. Its interface is intuitive. It offers a quick solution to tidying up your music tags.
The biggest limitation of the software is that it offers very limited codec support. It only supports mp3. With no support for FLAC or Ogg, you’ll need to use a different tool if your music collection is in these formats.
Website: github.com/lachhebo/GabTag
Support:
Developer: Ismaïl Lachheb
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
GabTag is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation / Summary
Related Software
| Music Tag Editors | |
|---|---|
| MusicBrainz Picard | Cross-platform MusicBrainz tag editor written in Python |
| Kid3 | Highly efficient audio tagger |
| Beets | Music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database |
| Tag Editor | Tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface |
| puddletag | Similar to Mp3tag |
| EasyTAG | Tag editor for MP3, Ogg Vorbis files and more |
| Tagger | Simple GTK utility that lets you tag your music |
| One Tagger | Music tagger with Beatport, Discogs, Musicbrainz, Spotify support |
| Ear Tag | Primarily geared towards making quick edits or bulk-editing tracks |
| GabTag | Audio tagging tool written in GTK 3 |
| Qoobar | Simple tagger for classical music |
| idntag | Identify and tag audio files |
| Pinky-Tagger | Mass tagger which supports the MusicBrainz (PUID & TRM) service |
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There is already easytag and Kid3. You can also use audio players like Clementine to look up tags and album covers and edit tags. What does GabTag offer over these other taggers?
We’ve already updated our Music Tag Group Test including GabTag.
Gabtag isn’t worth installing tbf