EasyTAG is a comprehensive tagging application that will help you keep your music archives and files documented and organized. Unlike most tagging tools, EasyTAG is not the typical “ID3 tags only” application - in fact, you will be able to add metadata also to any MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP4/AAC, MusePack, APE (Monkey’s Audio), and WavPack file. The number of tag fields available is really impressive, including the copyright notice, the URL, the encoder used, etc. In those audio files that use the ID3 standard, you can even add images to complete the information stored in the standard text-based tags. EasyTAG offers you an extra tag where you can record specific information about this attached image.
The editing functionalities available will surely cover all your expectations… and more. By using masks, the tags used for one of your tracks can be used to rename full directories or albums, and also the other way round – you can rename all the tracks in a folder using the folder’s name. Its batch processing capabilities will perform specific actions to any number of audio tracks saving you time and reducing the risk of typing mistakes. However, if these occur do not panic – EasyTAG’s undo option will reverse any change you just made. Individual fields can also be edited. Here you can replace a character or a string of characters in the selected field or fields, change their case, replace the spaces with something else, etc. more
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The one which causes the most difficulty is the lack of an "Edit" menu in the main menu bar. This is standard Mac OS interface design, and it puzzles me why the program commands have not been appropriately mapped to this menu, particularly since the contextual menu (right click | ctl click) is so well-implemented.
The key bindings are non-standard to Mac OS. Many of them can be adjusted in the "Keyboard" pane of "System Preferences". Those that would normally appear in the "Edit" menu cannot, because there is none.
Editing each tag is a three-step process that requires typing or pasting the information into a field, clicking on a check box (or using a contextual command) to enter the info into the memory buffer, and then saving to disk, which actually writes the tag to the file. It would be convenient to assign a key binding to the second step, but because there is no menu entry for it, it is impossible to do so, nor is it possible to discover if one is already assigned.
This one omission makes the learning curve much steeper than it ought to be for what is otherwise a well-designed tag editor.