Meta — Music Tag Editor App Reviews
Meta was an excellent replacement for MP3Tag but since the last update to v 1.6.1, it takes ages to change each tag. I hope the developer remedies this in the next update.
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Thank you for update )
Fantastic
I love this app. It makes copying and pasting my iTunes tags from lower quality AAC/MP3s over to FLAC and ALAC painless. Couldn’t ask for much more.
This app has the potential to be truly great…However, the lack of the following two fuctions makes it not as good as it may seem: 1) Doesn`t support .dsf files 2) Cannot “duplicate all metadata from top to bottom / bottom to top” (In Yate, users can easily duplicate all metadata from files to files) If these two problems are all fixed, this app will be my best 5 stars app. Before that happens, I won`t use it because its lack of necessary functions. I`ll update the review if this app does improve.
Awesome app
Super fast, great UI, and tons of options to make for efficient file handling. Nicely done.
This app does everything it advertises and it does it perfectly. Extremely intuitive and very fast and easy to use. Highly highly recommended!!! Thanks so much for saving me so much time!
Impressed
I just bought a bunch of apps and tried one after the other. None really did it for me. This is THE ONE that I will use.
This is a great app to go through and quickly clean up details in your music collection. Only feature missing, it would be great to have access to online databases. Works fine in Yosemite.
Does exactly what I need it to do. No issues so far. Price is way too high for such a simple program, but no other options out there that I could find.
Tried to drag and drop artwork. Didnt work. Tags that were already complete showed as empty. Tags that were empty in iTunes showed as completely accurate.
Great app with a great interface! It has all the basic functions you need for meta tag editing and compared to other apps the interface really makes the difference!
love this app it only needs to dd the feature to number tracks automatickly by pressing one button!!!! other than that this does it all love it please add this feature,,,...
With the last update, the app made itself the default application for iTunes files, so that double-clicking a m4v file lauches the Meta app, even though Meta cannot even handle m4v file tagging.
Finally an intuitive, elegant, way to edit music metadata seamlessly across all the main file formats (for me mp3, flac, aac). Allows you to easily see missing artwork, tag formats and of course adjust or add them. An ability to automatically edit tags (remove, replace, move between fields etc) based on regular expressions is all that is missing….
I’ve recently been saving my CD’s to flac and playing them on my OPPO blu ray and Onkyo HF player. However, flac is a tricky format to tag and even an extensive seach wasnt very helpful with some online taggers that were very confusing to use and not very intuitive. I used this once and it work right away. album art, correct track lists, artist, etc. Yeah, it’s $10 but in the scope of things, if your listening to FLac Files, you’ve probably already spent some dough on a good player and headphones so sping the extra for an easy tagger.
Why is no one writin good reviews about this app..? Odd. I am currently redoing all the F^ck us that iTunes Match has forced upon me and this app is rocking the socks off this joint.
I started off by searching for a great ID3 tag editor for Mac. As many know, I’m assuming because every review seems to say, PC’s have the best ID3 tag editors. Not many are present for the mac for some very strange reason. With that said, I wanted a simple, yet effective ID3 tag editor to batch edit files that have wrong copyright/encoding information. Somehow music files tend to become corrupted easily so all the Metadata is wrong. This application does just that. You can batch remove comments, batch remove encoding information, batch remove artwork, etc. I will admit that there is a minor learning curve for a few features. One such feature is removing all files after importing them. In order to do this you left click the “-“ symbol and “Remove all” pops up. The average, simple user would have a hard time figuring that out or knowing that. 5 stars simply because it does exactly as advertised. Yes, there are other apps that can do what Meta does. But they’re 15, 20, 30 dollars. This is 10. …and it’s a native app on your computer. You also know you’re not downloading extra spyware/malware because it’s from the App Store. So get this!
This app may well have lots of capability, but the UI is not at all intuitive. Additionally, I had strange changes made to my data for no apparent reason. Probably my error, but more evidence of a poor UI.
I just paid for this thing 5 minutes ago, and do I have buyer’s remorse! This thing doesn’t do 1/10 of what the ancient Media Rage does. Media Rage isn’t even supposed to mess with m4as of any kind, yet will find and attach artwork, and allow one to modify such files far beyond what this thing does. What Media Rage won’t do is modify sorting tags even though they are listed. Again, that app is essentially for mp3s yet does more that Meta. Foolishly thinking that what Media Rage does would be the norm and that Meta sepcifically listing m4as as one of its reasons for existing would make it my all in one tag editor, I was shocked at how little this thing does. Even if I could just edit the sorting tags, I would feel better, but those tags aren’t even available. Instead, I just threw away $15 on an app that does only a tenth that Media Rage has been doing for my Apple Lossless and ACC files for years. I hate to discourage an Apple developer, but get yourself a copy of Media Rage and see what it does. Then make Meta do all that Media Rage can do for mp3s for m4as of all kinds. As it is, I’m going back to Media Rage, because it can do more for and to Apple Lossless and ACC files that Meta can even though it’s not designed to work with those files.
I absolutely loved Meta for a while (before this version), and now the new Yosemite inspired blew my mind. I’m a Mac app developer myself, and I can tell this app is very much polished and made with a huge concern of details. I have been managing my music files with iTunes for a long time, and I must say it’s good for a lot of things, but iTunes just can’t get music tag edition right + a lot of other things makes me not so happy with it. Meta is great for the way you can rename or extract fields from filenames. Great work!
Worthless Destroyed My Audio
Bought because I had 1 song I needed to add metadata for and it corrupted when I added art. Give me a refund this is too expensive to not work.
2 years since last update?
With the latest macOS Tahoe… can we get a new update with this app? At least for the icon?
Does a lot of things right, but suffers with larger libraries; crashes
For the price I expected better. As others have pointed out, the app hangs for long periods of time when music is added. This is especially painful when adding large amounts of music from SMB shares. Adding ~3k files takes 5-10 minutes and this needs to be repeated _every time you launch the app_. Adding ~30k files, I gave up after a couple of hours. Once the data is loaded, it’s a very competent tag editor. I have experienced multiple crashes while editing tags, and one crash when the app was just in the background. Annoyingly, if there are any hiccups with file shares, then the app produces an endless stream of modal dialogs (I had to force quit the app). If you have a small-ish library, I can recommend this app. If you have a medium-to-large library, the price of this app is not justified. Update: I received a reply from the developer regarding this, confirming that the app does indeed lend itself better to collections that aren’t massive. Upgrading to a fourth star for an honest and prompt reply.
Best Tag Editor for macOS
Fast and easy to use tag editor. Handles all my audio tagging needs, and is m1 compatible. Love it.
add lrc synced feature
convinent app to edit
Beautiful program -- when it doesn't fully corrupt all your audio files
This program is beautiful and works great some of the time, but other times it straight up fully corrupts all your audio files. I just did a batch of 123 GBs of audio files and all of them ended up corrupt after carefully editing each of the meta data of each file. Users beware.
Consistently Awesome
I've been using Meta for tagging my files for a couple of years now, and wouldn't even consider another program. It does a great job with tagging and cover art. Then, last night out of the blue I discovered that I can use it to move files into a directory with my chosen folder format. I had no idea Meta could do that, and it's value to me personally just skyrocketed. Solid program, thanks for your hard work.
The best tag editor, far and away
This is the best tag editor I've ever used, on any platform. Absolutely killer app that does one thing and does it very very well. I love the templates for creating titles and filenames. I use this all the time to create playlists and files that for players like VLC or to burn an MP3 DVD to play on an offline stereo or another hardware player. Indispensable if you need to manipulate MP3 tags in bulk.
One of the best music metadata managers.
Does exactly what you'd expect a good one to do. The UI is fantastic, and the app functions well.
The best metadata app
I work for an indie label, we use this for our entire catalog. It's enabled us to edit our data quickly and easily. My favorite app!
Excellent App
For my 600 CD’s FLAC ripping project I needed something to help re-tag, and re-org my Folders and Library. I tried about 10 other apps. They were all too difficult and cumbersome to use. This app is great. It is intuitive and easy to use. I was able to tag, find art work, change folder setting, easy no issue. The support is good and responsive. Very pleased with the purchase.
best tag editor
like every APP always need a improvements, with the cover finder got a huge tool for anyone like all set, one nice future update will be a tag updates from discogs, amazon or any on line data base.
The best music tag editor, by far!
I've used a lot of Doug's AppleScripts and other tag editor for managing my library, but Meta is by far the fastest. It's also looks great :-)
poor experience (but growing on me?)
Doesn't save any sort of state so every time you open, you have to navigate to your files and load metadata for all your files from scratch. This can take hours. Crashes often, so then have to load all metadata from scratch, potentially costing you hours. Automates virtually nothing. You will get no assistance from web databases of music like Musicbrainz, discogs, lastfm. You will have to manually edit all metadata with no assistance. This app is probably ok if you just download or rip stuff and want to get it into itunes piecemeal, but is not great for managing a library you have no interest in putting into iTunes/Music. UPDATE after more time giving the app a chance: I may have been using it wrong or at least in a way it wasn't intended. It seems it is best used as a scalpel. In other words, don't load your full library into the app every time you launch, but rather go in and edit specific artists/albums. When I limit its use to manage a catalog of local music for my bluesound home audio system, it is much more manageable. Still occasionally the app struggles to save metadata to files and often gets stuck forcing me to cancel and close/reopen. With some stability improvements and future integrations of internet sources of info will possibly make this a 4 or 5 star app. Until then, it is just the best looking id3 tag editor, but not quite the best.
Well designed app
I've been using Meta off an on for a few years. I had several hundred CDs that I imported into iTunes, but there was always something needing correction. Meta was perfect for this task, allowing me to change track name, album name, artist, cover art, etc. My only suggestion would be a change to the file naming process to have a token to allow automatic numbering of tracks, useful when combining double CDs. Other than that, perfect!
Fantastic app!
I'm finally able to fix the metadata in all my ripped CDs. The lack of consistency in the original coding is frustrating, but since I downloaded this app I've got my music library just about where I want it. And I can find what I want to play!
Highly Recommended
Worth the price. Very well done, good user interface. Consider adding a way for Cover finder to work automatically over the selected albums and offer cover art to be accepted or not one by one. Would serve as a great first pass that would improve utility. Also consider adding a conection to Dicogs or similar to map from filenames to album/artist/songs.
Best metadata editor I've used
Meta is a great, simple tag editor. I've tried many others that are extemely confusing with terrible documentation... resulting in me screwing up the tags on a bunch of files. Using Meta, it's very clear what a given action/button does. I've been cleaning up my FLAC library with Meta, and it's been very easy & reliable to use. Highly recommended!
Absolutely Crucial for DJs and Digital Music Lovers
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's messy digital libraries of anything, and since my music is sacred and need a tool to sort it all out. Meta is the best tag editor I have ever used. It's fast, user friendly, and the developers are responsive. Highly recommend!!
You can trust Meta with your music
If you're reading this review its most likely because you have an music library that is very important to you. I did my research (and trialed as another reviewer mentioned) before purchasing this and have no regrets. If you care about your music library as much as I do then do yourself a favor and DO NOT gamble on free / cheap competitors of this software that are abundant on the itunes store. As a software engineer myself, I can tell you that the team behind this app takes their product seriously and will not harm your library. A small design flaw could mean hours of repair to your music data at least, or worse could cause permanant damage to your library. A couple suggestions: - The app is fairly intuituve but I definitely had to do quite a bit of trial and error before feeling comfortable and efficient. The website does a good job explaining the functionality of the app but the Pattern-Based Operations section could be expanded upon. An "app tour" might help users when first using / opening the app. - When performing operation on a track(s) I would sometimes get eror dialogs due to XYZ reasons. The error dialog might read something like "error 3002". Im guessing each tag engine has a documentation site of error codes and their descriptions which would be very helpful to display in the Meta error dialogs instead of the error codes. - Although its pretty user friendly, it would be nice if there was a option for advanced users to use real regular expressions in the "pattern based operations" windows as oposed to the watered-down pattern editor.
There must be some secret...
...to have this load the files I actually want to work on and not a thousand ones I don't. There seems to be no way to work on individual folders. No matter 'what' folder I select, the same random 1000 files load even if the folder only has 10 (like all the 990 files from the parent above). Really mystified at the UI.
Waste of money. Does not import Metadata
$17.99 for an app that does not inport track Metadata. You also have to pay $3.99 just to import artwork. I could have used iTunes to edit the tags for free.
By far the best design & interface of the tagging apps out there
It's great being able to hit the "send to iTunes" button to make all the changes. However, since upgrading to Mojave, I get this error "Some files couldn't be added to iTunes". I wonder if it's due to permissions. When I launched the app for the first time after upgrading to Mojave, it asked me to allow Accessibility options, but I'm not sure if it stuck? Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tried them all...
This was the best. By far. Clean UI, does in-depth things like creating tags from filenames, and is very easy to use.
It’s good! After a bit of a learning curve, it works even better..
First, I was not paid to do this review, in fact I bought the app before doing it. Veresion 1.6.7. I tried several programs before settling on this one. Only used it for 1 day so far. My first impression is that it does what I want it to do: edit meta tags for my LP converted library in the workflow I’m using, without populating information with someone else’s idea of field content (like the Album Artist field) which is lain wrong for some apps. Took off one star for a non-traditional approach… But, it works fine a short learning curve. No manual needed. Pro: In short, it’s very iTunes friendly! Easy metadata import (file or iTunes), selecting multiple tracks gives the ability to enter common fields all the selected entries, easy export to existing iTunes albums or to the file sources (if not in iTunes). Can’t speak for other apps. Con: Not a traditional spreadsheet list editing format. Unlike other editors it’s user-based, not spreadsheet-based. Took some playing with it, for me to be comfortable.
Looking to add ISRC codes to youe music? Meta is your tool!
I was looking for an app that allowed me to easily edit the ID3 tags, and allow me to add ISRC codes for the music I write. Before purchasing, I did some homework and looked to see what apps were out there. I even checked iTunes to see if was an option that I had overlooked somehow. Not finding many apps, I came to the App Store and just typed “metatags” into the search. What caught my attention was the beautiful, single spindle cassette tape icon. Once I clicked on it, I went to the creator’s website (why don’t more people do this before buying an app?), and read all the information there. While I didn’t initially see what I wanted to see (the ISRC option), I liked what I did see so much that I emailed the company, and I aksed if it had the option to add the ISRC codes. The next day, I got an email from Benjamin (the author of Meta), and he explained that the ISRC option was indeed in there. So this morning I bought Meta, loaded the new dance track I wrote into it, and easily found the option to add the ISRC code tag option to my MP3! Now, I just wanted to say that if people would A) check the develper’s website, B) email the company if they had further questions, and C) download a trial from the developer’s website if it’s offered. Do this BEFORE just clicking the Buy button, and being disappointed enough to write a bad review. Maybe the previous reviews were for a previous version of the app, and if that is indeed the case, fine. I’ll be using Meta for all the music I write. Thank you Benjamin, for a easy to use, well thought out tool!
This app has the potential to be truly great…However
This app has the potential to be truly great…However, the lack of the following two fuctions makes it not as good as it may seem: 1) Doesn`t support .dsf files 2) Cannot “duplicate all metadata from top to bottom / bottom to top” (In Yate, users can easily duplicate all metadata from files to files) If these two problems are all fixed, this app will be my best 5 stars app. Before that happens, I won`t use it because its lack of necessary functions. I`ll update the review if this app does improve.
Fantastic
I love this app. It makes copying and pasting my iTunes tags from lower quality AAC/MP3s over to FLAC and ALAC painless. Couldn’t ask for much more.
Great app!
I absolutely loved Meta for a while (before this version), and now the new Yosemite inspired blew my mind. I’m a Mac app developer myself, and I can tell this app is very much polished and made with a huge concern of details. I have been managing my music files with iTunes for a long time, and I must say it’s good for a lot of things, but iTunes just can’t get music tag edition right + a lot of other things makes me not so happy with it. Meta is great for the way you can rename or extract fields from filenames. Great work!
Very limited capabilities
I just paid for this thing 5 minutes ago, and do I have buyer’s remorse! This thing doesn’t do 1/10 of what the ancient Media Rage does. Media Rage isn’t even supposed to mess with m4as of any kind, yet will find and attach artwork, and allow one to modify such files far beyond what this thing does. What Media Rage won’t do is modify sorting tags even though they are listed. Again, that app is essentially for mp3s yet does more that Meta. Foolishly thinking that what Media Rage does would be the norm and that Meta sepcifically listing m4as as one of its reasons for existing would make it my all in one tag editor, I was shocked at how little this thing does. Even if I could just edit the sorting tags, I would feel better, but those tags aren’t even available. Instead, I just threw away $15 on an app that does only a tenth that Media Rage has been doing for my Apple Lossless and ACC files for years. I hate to discourage an Apple developer, but get yourself a copy of Media Rage and see what it does. Then make Meta do all that Media Rage can do for mp3s for m4as of all kinds. As it is, I’m going back to Media Rage, because it can do more for and to Apple Lossless and ACC files that Meta can even though it’s not designed to work with those files.
Not intuitive
This app may well have lots of capability, but the UI is not at all intuitive. Additionally, I had strange changes made to my data for no apparent reason. Probably my error, but more evidence of a poor UI.
Great
I started off by searching for a great ID3 tag editor for Mac. As many know, I’m assuming because every review seems to say, PC’s have the best ID3 tag editors. Not many are present for the mac for some very strange reason. With that said, I wanted a simple, yet effective ID3 tag editor to batch edit files that have wrong copyright/encoding information. Somehow music files tend to become corrupted easily so all the Metadata is wrong. This application does just that. You can batch remove comments, batch remove encoding information, batch remove artwork, etc. I will admit that there is a minor learning curve for a few features. One such feature is removing all files after importing them. In order to do this you left click the “-“ symbol and “Remove all” pops up. The average, simple user would have a hard time figuring that out or knowing that. 5 stars simply because it does exactly as advertised. Yes, there are other apps that can do what Meta does. But they’re 15, 20, 30 dollars. This is 10. …and it’s a native app on your computer. You also know you’re not downloading extra spyware/malware because it’s from the App Store. So get this!
Simple. Perfect.
Why is no one writin good reviews about this app..? Odd. I am currently redoing all the F^ck us that iTunes Match has forced upon me and this app is rocking the socks off this joint.
Finally an easy FLAC tagger
I’ve recently been saving my CD’s to flac and playing them on my OPPO blu ray and Onkyo HF player. However, flac is a tricky format to tag and even an extensive seach wasnt very helpful with some online taggers that were very confusing to use and not very intuitive. I used this once and it work right away. album art, correct track lists, artist, etc. Yeah, it’s $10 but in the scope of things, if your listening to FLac Files, you’ve probably already spent some dough on a good player and headphones so sping the extra for an easy tagger.
The Best Answer
Finally an intuitive, elegant, way to edit music metadata seamlessly across all the main file formats (for me mp3, flac, aac). Allows you to easily see missing artwork, tag formats and of course adjust or add them. An ability to automatically edit tags (remove, replace, move between fields etc) based on regular expressions is all that is missing….
Amateur
With the last update, the app made itself the default application for iTunes files, so that double-clicking a m4v file lauches the Meta app, even though Meta cannot even handle m4v file tagging.
great app!!!
love this app it only needs to dd the feature to number tracks automatickly by pressing one button!!!! other than that this does it all love it please add this feature,,,...
Clean and simple
Great app with a great interface! It has all the basic functions you need for meta tag editing and compared to other apps the interface really makes the difference!
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Tried to drag and drop artwork. Didn't work. Tags that were already complete showed as empty. Tags that were empty in iTunes showed as completely accurate.
It just works
Does exactly what I need it to do. No issues so far. Price is way too high for such a simple program, but no other options out there that I could find.