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Edit audio file tags with EasyTAG

EasyTAG is a tag editor which supports a variety of audio file types:

EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux.

Tag info is metadata that is embedded in an audio file. Tag fields include the track title, artist, date, genre, album, comments, copyright, URL, Encoder name and even an attached photo.

[EasyTAG] A condensed feature list of the latest version follows:

Supports a wide variety of audio formats.
Auto-tagging information can be derived from the song's filename and directory.
Supports renaming of files from tag information.
Supports global field setting across multiple files.
Has one level of undo/redo.
Can run batch processes on field data.
Can run an external application on a directory or file.
Can retrieve CDDB information from Freedb servers.
The GUI has windows for browsing selections, generating playlists, and searching files.
Features translations for numerous languages.

The software was written in C and uses a GTK-based user interface, it has been licensed under the GNU General Public License. Installation of an older version on a Fedora Core 3 system was fairly easy, it involved locating and installing rpms for the id3lib and flac libraries and installing the EasyTAG rpm files from the project download site (there is also a package in Fedora extras). Packages are available for Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, SUSE, NetBSD and MacOSX. Source code can be compiled for other platforms and distributions.

Development version 1.99.7 of EasyTAG was released this week, it features a lot of bug fixes and translation improvements.

Operation of the basic features was easy and obvious, editing tag information on mp3 and ogg was trivial. The tag information on a test mp3 file showed up on both the mpg123 and mpg321 players with no troubles. EasyTAG will definitely go into this editor's collection of useful audio utilities.

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