EasyTAG

EasyTAG is an open source graphical application that allows users to view and edit tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, WavPack and Monkey's Audio files. It supports Linux and Microsoft Windows OSes.

Features at a glance

The program features a simple, easy-to-use and user-friendly interface written in the GTK+ toolkit, which makes audio tagging operations a breeze under GNU/Linux operating systems. With this application you will be able to edit several tag fields, including title, album, artist, year, original artist or performer, composer, track number, disc number, comment, copyright, encoder name, and URL.

Renaming files and folders from the tag is also possible, as well as the ability to browse subdirectories and edit selected audio files of the selected folder. Also, the tagging, renaming, removing and saving operations can be recursive. In addition, users will be able to set a field like title or artist to all other files, undo and redo the last changes made to a file or entire directory, open a file or a folder with an external application, and convert letters into lowercase or uppercase.

Modern CDDB functionality

Another interesting feature is the ability to automate some operations, especially when completing the fields during batch tagging, or completion of the date. Modern CDDB (Compact Disc Database) functionality is integrated in EasyTAG. It uses the Gnudb.org and Freedb.org servers to retrieve information for Audio CDs. The application’s interface features a tree-based browser, a file searching window, a list to select files, and a playlist generator window. It is the most appreciated open source tag editor among the Linux community.

Under the hood and supported OSes

The entire application is written in the C programming language, which means that it can run on both Linux and Windows operating systems, it is translated into many languages, and provides users with many attractive features not found on other similar apps.

What is new in this release:

• Fix two crashes in the dialog to load filenames from a file
• Avoid a crash when adding an image and no files are selected
• Avoid a crash when saving ID3v2.4 tags and no audio is present
• Fix a crash when applying CDDB results
• Fix saving of ID3v1 genres when also using ID3v2.4
• Fix Ogg tag writing on Windows
• Ensure that a selected path in the browser is shown in the path list
• Open the online version of the help if Yelp is not available
• Fix handling of MP4 files with empty tag fields
• Fix the artist/album toolbar icon
• Eckhard M. Jager's Adwaita-style artist/album icons
• Add support for MP4 files with the .aac file extension
• Anders Jonsson's Swedish translation update
• Balazs Ur's Hungarian translation update
• Charles Monzat's French translation update
• Cedric Valmary's Occitan translation
• Walter Cheuk's Chinese (Taiwan) translation update
• Jobava's Romanian translation update
• Jordi Mas's Catalan translation updates
• Piotr Drag's Polish translation updates
• Rafael Fontanelle's Brazilian Portuguese translation update
• Tiago Santos' Portuguese translation update
• Daniel Mustieles' and Monica Canizo's Spanish translation updates
• gogo's Croation translation

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Fix a crash when renaming directories
• Fix input of new file names in the file area
• Add case-insensitive sorting of the artist/album list
• Improve searching within UTF-8 strings
• Handle UTF-8 strings when sorting the file list
• Fix display of the Monkey's Audio file type
• Avoid locale-sensitive tag reading issues (especially for FLAC and Ogg)
• Only install the metainfo file for the Nautilus extension if requested
• Refactor reading of Ogg and FLAC tags
• Refactor Monkey's Audio and Musepack header reading

What is new in version 2.4.0:

• Correct the disc number format specifier to %z
• Fix multiple CDDB searches during a single run
• Improve handling of tags with empty images
• Link to the online application help on Windows
• Remember the paned position in the main window between restarts
• Improve handling of file list selection
• Fix a crash when deleting files from within the application
• Fix a crash when reading FLAC files
• Fix a crash when navigating the directory browser with the keyboard
• Remove a few internal FIXMEs with some refactoring
• Updated British English translation
• German translation update
• Hungarian help translation
• Hungarian translation update
• French translation updates
• Turkish translation update
• Spanish translation updates
• Czech translation updates
• Catalan translation update
• Polish translation updates

What is new in version 2.3.7:

• Add preliminary support for HiDPI displays
• Fix missing libepoxy DLL in the Windows installer
• Convert several widgets to use templates
• Use new G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_PRIVATE support in GObject
• Czech translation update
• French translation update
• Polish translation update

What is new in version 2.3.6:

• Fix renaming files in the scanner
• Improve minimum size of log area
• Improve several UI strings
• Ekaterina Gerasimova's symbolic application icon, and improvements to Mallard help
• Add several comments for translators
• Add a test for the file renaming code
• Fix compiler warnings due to switch-enum warning when disabling tag support
• Improvements to several internal string-handling functions
• Remove setting for controlling the maximum number of log lines
• Remove quit confirmation dialog
• Further refactoring of internal file list code
• French translation update
• Polish translation update
• Updated British English translation
• Czech translation updates
• Catalan help translation
• Catalan translation updates
• Bosnian translation

What is new in version 2.3.5:

• Fix changing tag fields containing certain characters
• Fix for truncated CDDB results
• Fix changing the artwork description
• Avoid a crash when reading FLAC files with no tags
• Avoid a crash when reading invalid MP3 files
• Further refactoring of the internal file list code
• Add several unit tests
• Handle empty descriptions in ID3 tag artwork
• Build against the patched Debian version of id3lib
• Fix compilation when FLAC support is disabled
• Avoid a runtime warning in the file browser
• Fix a couple of Coverity warnings
• Fix string format sign warnings with GCC 5.0
• Further improvements to compiler warning flag checking
• Marek Cernocky''s Czech translation updates
• Piotr Drag's Polish translation updates
• Aka Sikrom's Norwegian bokmal translation update
• Osman Karagoz's Turkish translation update

What is new in version 2.3.4:

• Fix crash when saving FLAC tags
• Port to use AX_COMPILER_FLAGS for improved compiler warning checks
• Many compiler warning fixes, discovered after enabling extra warnings
• Fixes for two Coverity warnings
• Improve validation of Vorbis artwork and MIME types
• Refactoring of internal file list code
• Relicense id3lib wrapper to GPLv2+
• Updated German help translation
• Updated Czech help translation
• Updated Spanish translation update

What is new in version 2.3.3:

• Add album artist support for WavPack and APE tags
• Add channel mask reading support for WavPack tags
• Reduce memory usage when copying cover art, such as when modifying tags which contain images
• Use GIO when reading and writing FLAC, ID3v2.4 and WavPack tags
• Use GIO for reading and writing list store files
• Fix an error check when saving WavPack tags
• Clear empty fields when saving WavPack tags
• Allow the search dialog tree view to expand to fill the dialog
• Fix the disc number preferences controls
• Fix a crash when migrating configuration directories
• Fix a double unref when renaming files
• Fix memory leaks in the CDDB dialog, Ogg tagging code, Speex tagging code, FLAC tagging code, images tree view and the WavPack tagging code
• Fix stripping of disc number fields in ID3v2.4 tags
• Fix Ctrl-clicking to modify the file list selection
• Add an automated test for file type detection
• Refactoring of internal file list code
• Refactoring of FLAC and WavPack tagging code
• Relicense all code (excluding the Nautilus extension) under the GNU GPL version 2 or later
• МироCлaв Николић's Serbian translation update
• Rafael Ferrera's Brazilian Portuguese translation update
• Balazs Ur's Hungarian translation update
• Marek Cernocky''s Czech translation updates
• Muhammet Kara's Turkish translation update

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• Fix a crash when reading empty FLAC tags
• Fix an assertion failure when reading empty ID3 tags
• Fix incorrect track durations when searching CDDB
• Fix the log view being forcibly shown on startup
• Fix launching of external applications
• Fix many memory leaks in the CDDB search dialog
• Improve setting handling for the process fields scanner
• Improve file list selection handling
• Allow the tag area images tree view to expand if space is available
• Improve ID3v2 handling with Ogg files
• Add more fragments from which to guess the image type
• Add AppData metainfo description for Nautilus extension
• Add several automated tests
• Add a separator row below the all albums row in the artist tree view
• Ekaterina Gerasimova's improvements to the Mallard help
• British English translation update
• Czech translation updates
• Polish translation updates
• Serbian translation

What is new in version 2.2.5:

• Fix many memory leaks in the CDDB search dialog
• Clear empty cover art and album artist fields in MP4 tags
• Fix a memory leak and invalid read in the MP4 tagging code
• Improve ID3v2 handling with Ogg files
• Improve file list selection handling
• Fix several memory leaks in the file browser
• Show updated images in the Windows installer
• Aka Sikrom's Norwegian bokmal translation

What is new in version 2.2.4:

• Fix a crash when reloading the directory tree
• Fix delays, and a possible crash, when running CDDB searches
• Handle renaming on case-insensitive filesystems
• Provide a useful error message when failing to write files
• Fix memory leak in check for buggy id3lib version
• Improvements to scanner help
• Scanner help fixes
• Polish translation updates
• Indonesian translation
• Spanish help translation

What is new in version 2.2.3:

• Avoid a crash when browsing hidden directories
• Andreas Winkelmann's browser crash and memory leak fixes
• Avoid a crash with GtkFileChooser on Windows
• Restore process fields options correctly
• Add .m4v as a supported MP4 extension
• Korean translation
• Greek translation update
• Serbian translation update

What is new in version 2.2.2:

• Fix loading filenames from a text file
• Fix saving Ogg cover art without a description
• Fix check for broken id3lib UTF-16 writing
• Fix keyboard navigation to allow escaping the tag area
• Update ID3v1 genre list
• Revert asynchronous image handling changes
• Andreas Winkelmanna€s ID3 memory leak fix
• Andika Triwidadaa€s Indonesian translation
• Dimitris Spingosa€s Greek help translation

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Fix image loading with HTTP URLs and empty images
• Fix bogus track numbers when automatically numbering files
• Add Opus and Speex MIME types to desktop file
• Abhinav Jangda's fix for numeric characters in ID3 TPOS fields
• Roman Bogorodskiy's ID3 wrapper compilation fix
• Improvements to MP4 GIO wrapper
• Fix a scanner bug when converting " " to " "
• Fix compilation if TagLib or libogg is unavailable
• Depend on TagLib 1.9.1 for MP4 support
• Use CXXFLAGS from the environment
• Brazilian Portuguese translation update
• Lithuanian translation update
• Hungarian translation update
• Slovenian translation update

What is new in version 2.2.0:

• Several stability fixes, found with Valgrind and the Fedora retrace server
• Use GTK+ 3 by default, but still allow building against GTK+ 2
• Support extended tag fields in MP4 files
• Support GIF images in tags
• Ogg Opus support, asynchronous image loading, scanner function tests and new Vorbis cover art support
• MP4 cover art and GIO support, fix for Roman numeral capitalization
• Ask for confirmation before overwriting during renaming
• Mallard help updates
• Avoid truncating Vorbis audio data when saving
• Italian translation update
• French translation updates and typo fix
• German translation updates
• Polish translation updates
• Serbian translation update
• Spanish translation updates
• Hungarian translation updates
• Brazilian Portuguese translation updates
• Czech translation updates
• Lithuanian translation update

What is new in version 2.1.10:

• Several memory leak and crash fixes, found with the Fedora retrace server, Coverity and Valgrind
• GFileInfo porting and dummy browser row fixes
• Add a Contents item to the Help menu, for viewing the Mallard help
• Use g_spawn_async() to spawn child processes
• Reinstate ID3 tag support on Windows
• Remove the Quit button from the toolbar
• Scanner memory leak fix
• Add AppData XML
• Lithuanian translation update
• Brazilian Portuguese translation update
• Serbian translation update
• Czech translation updates
• Polish translation updates
• German translation update

What is new in version 2.1.9:

• Lots of general refactoring and stability improvements
• Replace most mini buttons with GtkEntry icons
• Many memory leak and invalid read fixes, found with Valgrind, cppcheck and the CLang static analyzer
• Fix crash when the MusicBrainz CDDB search fails
• Remove ancient libmpg123 code and use id3lib for reading the MPEG header
• Use GtkDialog for child windows
• Many fixes when building for MinGW
• Rearrange menus and adjust keyboard accelerators to better fit with the GNOME HIG
• Abhinav Jangda's numerous bug fixes and porting to GIO/GFile
• Darshan's column resizing and reordering patches
• Use GApplication for application life cycle
• Remove several custom icons and instead use the themed equivalents
• Do not split FLAC and Ogg tags by default
• Drop old Vorbis comment compatibility (XMMS and COMMENT fields)
• Mathias Reineke's total tracks support, and several other fixes
• Adrian Bunk's FLAC ID3 tag and obsolete translation improvements
• Do not set a custom wmclass on the scanner window
• Stop installing TODO, HACKING and THANKS files
• DocBook XML man page
• Marius Gavrilescu's improvement for illustration image filenames
• Dominique Leuenberger's licence and build improvements
• Florian Mullner's GTK+ 3 deprecation fixes
• Ekaterina Gerasimova's Mallard help, and removal of the outdated user guide
• Enrico Nicoletto, Rafael Ferreira and Antonio Fernandes C. Neto's Brazilian Portuguese translation updates
• Marek Cernocky''s Czech translation update
• Osman Karagoz's Turkish translation
• Gil Forcada's Catalan translation
• Balazs Ur's Hungarian translation update
• Christian Kirbach's German translation update
• Aurimas Cernius's Lithuanian translation update
• Stas Solovey's Russian translation update
• Matej Urbancic and Martin Srebotnjak's Slovenian translation updates
• МироCлaв Николић's Serbian translation update
• Piotr Drag's Polish translation update
• Milagros Infante Montero's Spanish translation update

What is new in version 2.1.8:

• Port to and require the most recent GTK+ 2 release (2.24)
• Allow experimental compilation against GTK+ 3
• Many memory leaks fixed
• Remove the Debian and RPM packaging
• Christoph J. Thompson's change to not install the ChangeLog
• Adrian Bunk's FLAC, configure, sign comparison warning and GBase64 fixes
• Waqa Qamar's new icons
• Small fixes to allow compilation under mingw
• Fix overlaid text in scanner legend
• Alessio Ababilov's SIGCHLD handling fix
• Move configuration files to XDG firectories
• Andreas Winkelmann's configuration file, remove all text, disc number column and compiler warning fixes
• Switch to TagLib for MP4 tag editing and drop libmp4v2 support
• Fix album artist entry focus chain order
• Remove Changes tab in about dialog
• Tidy and internationalize the desktop file
• Fix many spelling errors and typos
• Several translation updates
• Rewrite build system
• Use intltool for internationalization
• Drop dependency on libtool
• Leonid Podolny's easytag-2.1.6-from-txt.patch for segfault when pressing "Apply" in "Load filenames from TXT" dialog,
• WiseLord's fix-genre-tag.patch to fix predefined genres displayed under legacy systems.
• Michal Smoczyk's updated Polish translation
• Christoph J. Thompson's .desktop cleanup patch
• Christoph J. Thompson's add a new option to trim spaces when renaming files patch
• Nick Lanham's to make easytag compile against newest version of libmp4v2
• Wojciech Wierchola's file save performance improvement
• Julian Taylor's fix out of bound array access
• Honore Doktorr's revised libmp4v2 patch
• Algimantas Margevicius's Lithuanian translation

Requirements:

• gtk+