Meta — Music Tag Editor

Name: Meta — Music Tag Editor
Price: 22.99 USD
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Benjamin Jaeger

Music Metadata | Tag Editor

Only for Mac

$22.99

Ages

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Benjamin Jaeger
Language

EN
+ 5 More
Size

16.3
MB

Mac

If you’re a musician, DJ, or music enthusiast, chances are you care deeply about your music. Meta helps with every aspect of managing a digital music collection, and saves you time when you rip vinyls or download music from third-party stores. Key Features: - Batch Editing of Tags & Cover-Art - Batch Cover-Art Adjustments (scale, crop, compress) - Batch String Transformations - Batch Compose Track Numbers - Find Tags & Hi-Quality Album Covers Online - Find and Replace Text, Words, Regular Expressions - Rename Files (based on tags) - Create Directory Structures (based on tags) - Extract Tags (from filenames, paths, other tags) - Compose Tags (based on a pattern of text and other tags) - Built-In File Management Tools (move to recent, preview, reveal, remove) - Import/Export of Playlist - Import/Export of Tags as CSV - Talks to your preferred Music-library (iTunes, Music, Doppler…) Broad Media Support Meta supports all popular audio file formats such as: - MP3 (ID3v1, ID3v2, APE) - MP4, M4A, M4B, M4V (Atom) - FLAC (Vorbis Comment) - OGG, OGA, OPUS, SPEEX (Vorbis Comment) - AIFF, WAV (ID3v2, RIFF-Info) - DSF, DSDIFF (ID3v2) Customisable Interface Meta allows you to define tag-panel (sidebar) configurations: groups of tags you want to edit most often. Just pick which tags to display in each setting, and name it. You'll then be able to switch between each layout at will and edit the tags associated (ex: Publishing, Classical, Podcasts…). Fast, Clean, Reliable Meta is a native and robust macOS app powered by Taglib, a trusted and proven open-source tagging engine. Edits will be mostly instantaneous, and there will be no need for manual saving: what you see is what you get.

Ratings & Reviews

This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.

Consistently Awesome
05/05/2023

Atlbsky
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.
Consistently Awesome
05/05/2023

Atlbsky

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.
Does a lot of things right, but suffers with larger libraries; crashes
11/15/2024

Anders Wallgren
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.

Developer Response
Hello! Thanks for your feedback. Meta is indeed more apt at dealing with smaller batches, and was conceived for everyday, regular use: that is where it shines most!! It can handle large amounts of files, but as you said, 3K is a good upper limit to consider, at once. — Ben
Does a lot of things right, but suffers with larger libraries; crashes
11/15/2024

Anders Wallgren

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.
Developer Response 11/13/2024
Hello! Thanks for your feedback. Meta is indeed more apt at dealing with smaller batches, and was conceived for everyday, regular use: that is where it shines most!! It can handle large amounts of files, but as you said, 3K is a good upper limit to consider, at once. — Ben
poor experience (but growing on me?)
02/28/2021

aut0maticdan
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.

Developer Response
Hi! I would advise to update to macOS Big Sur, and Meta to v2.0.4 for overall stability and performance improvements. — Ben
poor experience (but growing on me?)
02/28/2021

aut0maticdan

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.
Developer Response 05/20/2021
Hi! I would advise to update to macOS Big Sur, and Meta to v2.0.4 for overall stability and performance improvements. — Ben
Well designed app
02/20/2021

Scottsdale AZ
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!
Well designed app
02/20/2021

Scottsdale AZ

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!

Starting with Meta v2.3, you can use a new filter syntax that lets you target specific fields, exclude terms, and combine expressions — making it easy to build complex filtering queries quickly. For example: "artist:Chic, album:Savoir Faire, -mp3" New: - New Filter Syntax - New Filter Recents Menu & Management Enhancements & Fixes: - Fixed a bug in the "Import Artworks" feature, that prevented it from working properly. - Renamed “Move to Bin” to “Move to Trash" for System Coherence - Renamed the "Tools" menu, into "Tag" - Moved "Rename Files" and "Arrange Into Directories" commands to the "File" menu. - Overall UI fine tuning

Version v2.3

Nov 1

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Accessibility

Information

Seller
Size
Category
Compatibility
Languages
Age Rating
Copyright

Developer Website

Privacy Policy

Supports

Family Sharing

Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

Meta — Music Tag Editor

Music Metadata | Tag Editor

Ratings & Reviews

Consistently Awesome

Does a lot of things right, but suffers with larger libraries; crashes

poor experience (but growing on me?)

Well designed app

What’s New

v2.3

2.2

2.1.6

2.1.5

2.1.4

2.1.3

2.1.2

2.1.1

2.1

2.0.7

2.0.6

2.0.5

v2.0.4

2.0.1

2.0.0

1.9.9

1.9.8

1.9.7

1.9.6

1.9.5

1.9.4

1.9.3

1.9.2

1.9.1

1.9

Version v2.3

App Privacy

Data Not Collected

Accessibility

Information

Supports

Family Sharing