Music id3tag app

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Hi all, hope all is well. Anyone on a mac that can recommend a music id3tag app? Or what is the best music id3tag app for mac?

Thanks, Dj Evon

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I like Kid3ā€¦ https://kid3.kde.org/

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I use Mp3Tag for years. Now with an Mac Version can be load in the App Store.

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Iā€™m in the process of switching to Mac and Iā€™m going to buy mp3tag because itā€™s so damn good

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https://2manyrobots.com/yate/

This is better, itā€™s Beatport tagging is much better, and it does Discogs and MusicBrainz too.

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Looks nice, Iā€™ll give it a go!

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Mp3tag is exceptionally versitile. I spent hours searching for an appropriate tool to harmonise all my tagging and this is what I settled with. The ability to create simple scripts and sequence file tag changes is powerful and is the thing that swung it for me. Itā€™s also free, which is another reason but functionality wise it does what most people need, and in a very simple way once youā€™ve learned the GUI

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Only the Win Version is free. Mp3Tag for Mac is about 25ā‚¬. Mac Version is much more expensive devolpement and the App Store fee.

I think DJā€™s who pays for an Mac and gear for professional work, can be able to pay for an reeealy good software to handle the whole track library clean.

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thanks for your responses guys. I just purchased Mp3tag for mac and giving it a try. I read somewhere that mixed in key has an app for that too. If anyone has it, let me know how it is.

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KeyFinder is another good App from App Store for tagging Key.

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OneTagger will go out ant attempt to ID your tracks automatically. https://onetagger.github.io

other tan that MP#Tag is great for manual tagging.

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Iā€™ll check it out this week and thanks

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Thank you I will look into it.

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Personally, I use MusicBrainz Picard.

This allows me to tie my tracks to the exact release, which isnā€™t as important in the digital age, but allows me to keep track of my tracks and if it came from a deluxe CD, or a record vs CD, etc.

It has the additional benefit of allowing you to use audio fingerprints to match tracks to releases, and submit fingerprints for others to use in the future.

It also allows you to create scripts and execute them against selected tracks. So, Iā€™ve got a ā€œBeatport Cleanupā€ script which I run against all the tracks I get from Beatport, getting the tags how I like them.

Iā€™ve also got a ā€œmeLon Sessionā€ script which I use to help tag my recorded sessions to ready them for upload to SoundCloud or whatever.

You can even have different ā€œFile Naming Scriptsā€ that allow you to store your track in a specific location, according to the tags. This means you can have Picard sit on your download directory waiting for new tracks, load up the tracks, edit any tags you need, and then save your changes, moving the track to the right location.

This allows me to store tracks with the following naming scheme:

LABEL/ALBUM_ARTIST/ALBUM [CATALOGNUMBER||YEAR] [MEDIUM]/TRACKNUMBER ARTIST - TITLE.ext
Univack/ISMAIL.M & Redspace/Mekbuda [UV219] [Digital Media]/01 ISMAIL.M & Redspace - Mekbuda (Original Mix).flac

In addition to the metadata, saving tracks can also read media info, so you can do something like store all your 320 MP3s in one directory, and put all your VBR or lower quality MP3s in an alternative directory, making it easy to not accidentally load up a 192KB MP3 on the decks.

I also have Picard key off of a custom ā€œCollectionā€ tag when saving out my files. This allows me to store my tracks, DJ sets and samples in different directories.

I use Picard via X-Forwarding over SSH. This means I can interact with the files ā€˜localā€™ to the server storing the files, from the comfort of my desktop. Picard works on Windows, macOS and Linux.