Need a MP3 ID3 tagger, and cover fetcher

Question

I need to tag my MP3 library, and have tried kid3 (which was manual tagging), when I used Kubuntu 9.10 (I now use Ubuntu Meerkat) Here are the features I am hoping for:

A good and clean UI.
Tagging should be automatic, like Winamp's autotag feature, which rocks, btw!
It should also embed the cover-art in the mp3, not copy a jpeg file in the folder, because now-a-days all players support displaying cover art. But acceptable if not possible.
Rename the files as per some regular expression like %TrackNo - %Artist - %Title.
Should be accurate, and more importantly smart. I want to start tagging at night, and hopefully my collection should be done by the morning, w/o it being stuck at a user prompt at 1%.

If one app cant do all, I am willing to use 3, wouldn't mind exposure to a few more apps ;)

I have used picard or someting, and I didnt like it quite a lot. But wouldn't mind using it, if there is no other alternative.

Thanks for your time!

Command-line only alternatives – Pablo Bianchi May 24 '19 at 15:34 — Pablo Bianchi, May 24 '19 at 15:34

score 49 · Accepted Answer · edited May 24 '19 at 15:37

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EasyTAG

You can try EasyTAG, a nice graphical editor for tags in mp3 and aac files.

edited May 24 '19 at 15:37

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Dec 03 '10 at 14:08

Vojtech Trefny

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yeah, seems good enough, I dont have enough English songs atm, All I have are hindi, and it couldnt tag them properly, I guess freedb doesnt have that info. Winamp uses gracenote, and it has all the info. – theTuxRacer Dec 03 '10 at 14:33
+1 - Good suggestion. It has a few quirks but is the best I've used in GNU/Linux. – boehj May 16 '11 at 08:14
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At the program - can I change / copy metadata to all selected files from the one being edited? Oh, got it! Right-click selected files and scaner option. – Esamo Aug 04 '14 at 12:41

score 16 · Answer 2 · edited May 24 '19 at 01:52

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MusicBrainz Picard

i just went over my entire collection 80gigs+, i did a lot of research and tried easytag, banshee, etc the only that really stands out for me was MusicBrainz Picard.

Its very clever, backed up a by a huge database. The scanning functionality is what really impressed me, it plays the song and then makes an audio fingerprint of it. It then compares it to the database and populates all the metadata. neat

edited May 24 '19 at 01:52

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Dec 04 '10 at 19:32

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what did u use for the album art? – theTuxRacer Dec 05 '10 at 04:10
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The only problem with Picard is that the same track can belong in more than one album release, so if you fingerprint it may associate the track with "greatest hits 1" instead "the best of" so you end up with a muddled collection – Bealer Aug 04 '12 at 14:10
This is a great piece of software! – Maduka Jayalath Apr 05 '16 at 11:07

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 25 '22 at 06:03

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Audio Tag Tool (`tagtool`)

You can also install tagtool. This will allow you to edit the ID3 tags of OGG and MP3 files using a nice GUI.

Warning: Last update: 2013-04-24

edited Jul 25 '22 at 06:03

almaceleste

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answered Dec 03 '10 at 14:40

karthick87

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does it fetch tags from the internet, and maybe covers too? – theTuxRacer Dec 03 '10 at 14:52
@KaustubhP not sure on fetching tags from internet. – karthick87 Dec 03 '10 at 15:35

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited May 24 '19 at 01:56

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For

automatic tagging, I recommend Musicbrainz Picard.
manual tag editing and robust pattern-based file renaming, I recommend Ex Falso.

I can't recommend anything for you for album art, since I use the "picture in the same folder" method.

edited May 24 '19 at 01:56

Pablo Bianchi

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answered May 16 '11 at 08:58

Ryan C. Thompson

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score 4 · Answer 5 · edited May 24 '19 at 01:29

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Beets

You definitively want beets:

pip install beets

config.yaml:

plugins: fetchart
paths:
  default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track - $albumartist - $title

beet import <directory>

... and let the magic happen.

See also the official getting started guide.

edited May 24 '19 at 01:29

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Jan 23 '19 at 09:51

vmassuchetto

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score 4 · Answer 6 · edited May 24 '19 at 01:51

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Puddletag

You might be interested in using Puddletag. It has all the features you mentioned, as well as some more automated %Filename - %Artist - %Title customization.

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Included with puddletag are tag sources supporting lookups from Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB and MusicBrainz and AcoustID. There is also quite a number of features this application supports.

edited May 24 '19 at 01:51

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Apr 04 '15 at 12:26

VRR

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 07 '11 at 00:08

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Only today I discouvered MP3 Diags. It has a file renamer and a tag editor with Discogs and Musicbrainz support and can parse directory and filenames. Also, it fixes various low level issues.

answered Jan 07 '11 at 00:08

Frank

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 03 '10 at 17:29

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i would recommend amarok or songbird . both are good..

answered Dec 03 '10 at 17:29

FOSS DIVERSER

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As of 2016, Amarok still doesn't show custom ID3v2 tags. – Dan Dascalescu Jul 27 '16 at 00:44

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 07 '11 at 01:20

as for me. the only tagger I've used and worked nice is Mp3Tag using wine. Not slow and you can download album details from amazon.com or amazon.de mp3tag page also music brainz and it has a clean UI more focused on tagging. I recommend this than easy tag

score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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I usually use the zortam online mp3 tagger which can fetch cover arts and lyrics as well. For me it did the job, and it's very accurate. I use Fedora, but normally it should work on any OS if you have Java installed.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

Community

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answered Oct 13 '11 at 10:11

perfectvibes

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Dec 04 '10 at 07:36

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Have you tried Winamp via Wine? It seems that Winamp works without major problems.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2723&iTestingId=54480

answered Dec 04 '10 at 07:36

Vojtech Trefny

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Need a MP3 ID3 tagger, and cover fetcher

11 Answers11

EasyTAG

MusicBrainz Picard

Audio Tag Tool (`tagtool`)

Beets

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Need a MP3 ID3 tagger, and cover fetcher

11 Answers11

EasyTAG

MusicBrainz Picard

Audio Tag Tool (tagtool)

Beets

Puddletag

Linked

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Audio Tag Tool (`tagtool`)