Meta is a smart music tag editor made for macOS, that streamlines the editing of audio metadata. It allows you to write metadata to any number of audio tracks, customize metadata formats, and organize files consistently. By keeping metadata updated, the app makes your music collection easy to manage. For DJs, musicians, podcasters, and all music fans.
Meta's layout presents as a list of files, and a sidebar.
Editing multiple files at once, also known as “Batch editing” is accomplished by selecting a group of files and working in the app's sidebar.
The sidebar mirrors the contents of the currently selected files, so that edits performed there will be applied across all selected files. This being true of tags and artworks as well.
Find tags and album artworks online thanks to the Discogs online database.
Filter results by media type (CD, Vinyl, File, Cassette…) and apply changes in a single click.
Find hi-quality album artworks online instantly and effortlessly,
and specify your preferred image size (Normal, Large, XL).
Album artworks are easily set or replaced by dragging images. You can adjust existing images on-demand (scale, crop, compress), and configure Meta to automatically adjust new images, in order to keep your files size to a minimum.
Compose a file-name pattern and rename each file according to its internal metadata.
Compose a file-path pattern, with slashes as folder delimiters, to organise files in sub-directories.
Extract Tag information from file names, file paths, or other metadata, by matching it against a pattern.
Find and replace text, words, or regular expressions in the Tags, using the native text finder interface.
Perform text replacements iteratively or in a single go using the Replace All command.
Create as many sidebar layouts as you wish to fit your preferences and needs. Simply select the tags you want to see displayed in each category.
You will then be able to switch between various layouts (Publishing, Classical, Podcasts…) at will.
Meta's sidebar features editing interfaces that help you with the input of some of the more complex tags, like with Multiline Text (Lyrics, Comments…), Tempo (BPM), or Dates (Requiring ISO8601 Formatting).
Metadata preferences allow you to choose which type of metadata formats will be written to your files. Different versions of the ID3v2 format are available.
To input Cyrillic, you will need to use ID3v2.4 encoded with UTF-8 or UTF-16.
Meta supports all popular audio formats such as mp3, mp4, m4a, m4b, m4v, aiff, wav, flac, ogg, oga, opus, spx, dsf, dsdiff, and writes metadata formats ID3v1, ID3v2 (v2.3, v2.4), MP4, Vorbis, INFO and APE Tags.
Stay in-sync when you make changes in Meta thanks to built-in support for iTunes, Music, and Doppler media libraries.
Meta embraces macOS standards and best practices, and is built with care for great user experience.
Meta is powered by an open-source tag engine called TagLib, which ensures swift edits and reliable “to-spec” file writes.
