Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use universal Tag Editor that allows editing metadata of common audio formats, supporting ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments, and APE Tags. If you look for a top free audio tag editor to batch edit music files, Mp3tag offers a user-friendly interface and powerful features to manage your entire music library efficiently.
It can rename files based on tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import /export tag information, create playlists, and more.
Mp3tag supports online database lookups from Amazon, Discogs, and Freedb, allowing automatic retrieval of accurate tags and cover art for your music library.
Beyond its core capabilities, MP3tag offers a variety of additional functions, including batch export of embedded album covers, support for iTunes-specific tags (such as media type or TV Show settings), and the ability to combine multiple actions into groups that can be applied with a single click.
MP3tag supports the following audio formats:
- Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- Monkey’s Audio (ape)
- Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
- MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes applicable)
- Musepack (mpc)
- Ogg Vorbis (Ogg)
- OptimFROG (ofr)
- OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
- Speex (spx)
- Tom’s Audio Kompressor (tak)
- True Audio (tta)
- Windows Media Audio (WMA)
- WavPack (WV)
Main features:
- Batch-Tag Editing Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, WMA, APEv2 Tags, and Vorbis Comments to numerous files instantly.
- Cover art download support lets you apply album covers to your files, strengthening your library’s visual impact.
- Import from Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB, and MusicBrainz. Save typing and import tags from online databases such as Amazon, Discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and others.
- Replace characters or phrases. Replace strings in tags and filenames (with help for Regular Expressions).
- Create Playlists automatically. Create and manage playlists automatically while editing.
- Rename files from tags. Rename files based on the tag information and import tags from filenames.
- Export to HTML, RTF, or CSV to generate detailed reports and lists of your collection using customizable templates.
- Complete Unicode support ensures the user interface and tagging are fully compliant.
What’s New in Mp3tag version 3.33 (2026-01-22) :
- FIX: Drag-and-drop functionality from other applications failed in some cases starting with v3.32.
- FIX: Added a workaround for an issue introduced by a Windows Update where increasing file size, such as when adding cover art, caused error 380 on file systems backed by cloud storage like OneDrive or Dropbox.
- CHG: adding cover art using ‘Manage covers…’ now opens the same folder as adding cover art via the Tag Panel context menu.
- CHG: Changed the resizing behavior of minimum size mode when adjusting covers to target the requested size.
- FIX: Cover thumbnails in the list of Tag Sources query results were not displayed in some cases.
- NEW: added support for horizontal scrolling in File List via Shift + mouse wheel.
- NEW: added options to scale proportionally, scale to square, and crop to square when adjusting album covers.
- NEW: added option to skip resizing when adjusting album covers.
- NEW: added support to resize to the minimum size when adjusting album covers.
- CHG: PNG transparency is now converted to white instead of black when changing format to JPEG while adjusting album covers.
- FIX: regression where the previous compatibility adjustment of writing covers of type Artist, Media, and Icon for MP4 via Nero tags was no longer used.
- FIX: writing MP4 tags to specific fragmented/streaming MP4 files is no longer refused.
- FIX: writing MP4 tags to specific fragmented/streaming MP4 files corrupted the file, and now it simply refuses to tag the file.
- CHG: auto-completion of custom values when editing in File List and Extended Tags is now only enabled if custom values exist for the field.
- CHG: The json_select_array function in the Web Sources Framework now supports JSON arrays as an unnamed root element.
- FIX: ID3v2 frames using a text encoding different from the one requested were not modified in the previous development build.
- CHG: versioning scheme now includes pre-release indicators and allows for patch versions.
- FIX: Bitrate reporting for MP3 files was inaccurate on tracks with durations below 1 second.
- CHG: Writing ID3v2 tags now preserves the original ID3v2 frames that were not modified.
- CHG: writing ID3v2 tags allows for writing multiple non-standard
WXXXframes with - the same description.
- CHG: writing WMA tags stores multiple values for fields that don’t support multiple
- values as
Value 1; Value 2. - FIX: folders were automatically created if a format string was entered at ‘Convert >Tag – Tag’ for
_FILENAME, which contained directory separators\. - FIX: Addressed an issue where drag-and-drop actions triggered the server busy dialog while system dialogs were shown (since v3.31h). (#70194)
- FIX: Drag-and-drop functionality now works again for apps supporting link operations only (since v3.32a).
- NEW: added support for reading cover art from the deprecated field
COVERARTin Ogg Vorbis files; rewriting now converts it to the recommendedMETADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE. - NEW: Support for the Insert command is now available in the Web Sources Framework.
- FIX: Output variables beginning with an underscore were silently ignored by the Web Sources Framework functions SayFormat and UseFormat.
- CHG: File List drag-and-drop functionality has been limited to move and copy actions again.
- CHG: Determining the available space required for a write operation to perform now resolves any reparse points of the given path.
- LNG: updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Corsican, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
Official Homepage – https://mp3tag.de
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
