MP3 Diags!

In May 2008 I decided to improve my MP3 collection, by properly tagging all the files (including composer data, adding album cover art, fixing VBR headers, re-ripping albums that have poor sound quality, and more. I tried several programs, but I wasn't happy with how they worked. None of them did all the things that I wanted, and some corrupted the files. Worse, none allowed me to look inside an MP3 file, so the best way to see what was wrong with a file was to open it with a hex editor and try to see how some specifications mapped to the various pieces of the file. After a while I decided to give up on the tools I was experimenting with and write my own. The result is MP3 Diags. There are many programs that create and edit MP3 files, and many of them are broken. As a result, many MP3 file

MP3 Diags alternatives

  • Mp3tag

  • Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

    tags: album-artwork audio-tagging batch-mode donationware id3-tag-editor
  • TagScanner

  • TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames.

    tags: audio-tagging batch-mode built-in-player file-renaming id3-tag-editor
  • EasyTAG

  • EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags.

    tags: audio-tagging automatic-file-renaming automatic-tagging cddb metadata
  • Tag&Rename

  • Tag&Rename is a music files tag editor that easily handles all popular digital audio formats. No matter what music compressor you prefer, you can keep your music collection organized with Tag&Rename. It is the only tag editor and organizer which has full native support for: mp3 (ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags), MusePack mpc/mp+ (APEv1, APEv2 and ID3v1 tags), Windows Media wma, asf and wmv files, Ogg Vorbis/Flac/Speex (vorbis comments), Apple iTunes and iPod aac (m4a) files including mp4, lossless m4a and protected m4p files, most popular lossless codecs including Monkeys Audio, Flac, Wav Pack, Optim Frog, True Audio, Apple, Windows Media lossless and Wav. ยป

    tags: album-artwork audio-tagging id3 id3-tag-editor id3v2
  • Jaikoz

  • Jaikoz is a tagger that specializes in mass tagging of music file tags. Jaikoz performs acoustic fingerprint matching and metadata lookups automatically using the MusicBrainz, Discogs and Acoustid databases. It can also look up artwork and find duplicates songs.

    tags: audio-tagging automatic-tagging musicbrainz music-tagging discogs
  • The GodFather

  • Do you own mp3 files? How about ogg, mpc, ape, flac, aac, apl, wv, mp4, ofr, or spx files? Do you have a lot of them?If yes, then you probably already know that it is easier to create a chaotic budge of files with strange names and in wrong locations than to have a clean and nice collection where every file is where it is supposed to be, with a perfect name and tag information.Sounds like the truth? Don't worry, The GodFather is here to put order to chaos and put you in control.

    tags: audio-tagging music-library music-organization rename-files
  • Finetune

  • Finetune is the easiest way to fix your music. Fix song information, cover art, lyrics and remove duplicate and missing tracks from your library. Unlike other tagging tools, Finetune works mostly in an automatic way. You just review the proposed changes, maybe tweak them and apply. Finetune listens to your music and calculates its acoustic fingerprint, then it searches for matches in the AcoustID database.

    tags: acoustic-fingerprinting album-artwork audio-tagging automatic-tagging id3
  • Metadatics

  • Metadatics is a powerful and advanced audio metadata editor. It supports batch editing of most common audio file types including MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA, and more. Lookup metadata from online sources, rename files based on metadata, or manipulate metadata using one of the many built in functions. Metadatics provides all you need to edit metadata with ease and flexibility.

    tags: album-artwork audio-tagging automatic-tagging batch-mode id3
  • PerfectTUNES

  • Optimizing your music collection can be a daunting task, from tracks with missing metadata tags (track, artist, album names), albums missing artwork, duplicated tracks, to corrupted tracks, typically correcting these issues can be a time consuming task. No longer, imagine if a trained professional was on hand to help, PerfectTUNES is that professional

    tags: album-artwork audio-tagging itunes-cleaner metadata-editor
  • Magic Mp3 Tagger

  • Here you can get an overview of the features of Magic MP3 Tagger.

    tags: automatic-tagging id3-tag-editor
  • wxMP3val

  • wxMP3val is a free front-end for the MP3val.

    tags: mp3 fix-error wxwidgets mp3-repair mp3-error-correction
  • AMVidia Tag Editor for MAC

  • Discover the newest way of editing tags and renaming music files through the handy spreadsheet. Tag Editor allows to download, edit, clean up multiple tags and rename files by batch in one spreadsheet with full control over changes. Tidy your entire audio collection by both auto and manual methods quickly and easily! Tag Editor supports ID3 tags for MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, and MP4 tags for MP4 and M4A (Apple lossless) files.

    tags: edit-tags id3 id3-tag-creator id3-tag-editor id3v2
  • MetatOGGer

  • MetatOGGer can rename, tag and classify music files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC-, Speex, MP3, Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack and Monkey's Audio). It supports acoustic fingerprinting and scripting and can download lyrics and cover art. It has a simple beautiful ribbon-interface and it's available in English, French, Italian and Spanish.

    tags: acoustic-fingerprinting album-artwork id3 id3-tag-editor lyrics