Meta — Music Tag Editor
Music Metadata | Tag Editor
Only for Mac
$39.99
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.
more Came across it by accident recently and was blown away by the amount of features packed into it. Everything I was looking for could be achieved with a little bit of digging around in the app. If you need to do anthing with meta tags, this can probably do it.
Came across it by accident recently and was blown away by the amount of features packed into it. Everything I was looking for could be achieved with a little bit of digging around in the app. If you need to do anthing with meta tags, this can probably do it.
In the latest update the author added the feature that I was waiting for most, a batch processing function allowing you to resize all the artwork in your collection to the desired size and format. Having thousands of songs in my collection this feature saves me countless hours of manual processing, having discovered that some of the image files were taking up over 5 mb of space in the m4a file, my collection is now about half a gigabyte smaller than it used to be. Good work :)
In the latest update the author added the feature that I was waiting for most, a batch processing function allowing you to resize all the artwork in your collection to the desired size and format. Having thousands of songs in my collection this feature saves me countless hours of manual processing, having discovered that some of the image files were taking up over 5 mb of space in the m4a file, my collection is now about half a gigabyte smaller than it used to be. Good work :)
- Fixed a possible crash scenario, when focus leaves the filter
- Fixed a localization typo (Play)
- Reverted Find Tags Keyboard binding to ⌘⇧F , by popular demand
- Moved Artwork Submenu, to Tags Menu
2.3.9 2 Apr
What's New:
- Updated Meta's tag-engine “Taglib”, to v2.2.1
- Implemented Search Results Filtering
- Implemented a "Skip Empty Components" option, in Create Directories (ignores path components with missing metadata)
- Added a "Play" menu item, under the File menu, with key binding: ⌘P
- Added a recovery option for when the preferred music player is undefined
What's Changed:
- In case of filename collision when moving files, the 'Skip' option is now shown by default
- The “Import tags” prompt was removed and merged with the derive tags feature (choose From: CSV Document)
- Updated keyboard bindings for:
- Add Files: ⇧⌘O
- Select Inverse: ⌥⌘I
- Filter: ⇧⌘F
- Find Tags: ⇧⌘I
- Derive Tags: ⇧⌘T
- Swap Tags: ⇧⌘P
Improvements:
- Fixed track selection matching the currently navigated text finder result
- Made the derive tags prompt wider, when choosing to import a CSV document
- Moved automatic CSV pattern guessing to a background thread
2.3.8 30 Mar
- Added filters to cover and tag finder
- Added a play button and music player selection preference
- Improved VoiceOver accessibility
2.3.7 25 Mar
- Introduced a lag when typing in the filter field, to prevent jitter when browsing large data sets
- The launch directory preference is now ignored when the app is opened from Doppler
- Added a setting to exclude album covers from tag finder
- Improved cover finder's user interface
- Fixed restoring key status to the main track list when committing editing in the sidebar
- Fixed a bug that prevented the display of "file-exists" recovery options (skip, replace, stop), when moving files
- Fixed a possible crash scenario, due to sketchy key-view loop management
2.3.6 19 Mar
- Added Chinese Localizations (Credits to Pluwen Chen)
- Fixed “Match Tracks” mode being ignored in Tag Finder
- Added a link for syntax help to the find and replace's find field
- Automatically filter artist names in Tag Finder (Removing extraneous numbers between parentheses)
2.3.5 6 Feb
- Refreshed App Icon
v2.3.4 26 Jan
- Fixed a crash introduced in v2.3.2
v2.3.3 24 Jan
- Attempted to fix a context-menu bug on multi-monitor setups
- Fixed a bug that prevented pattern recents menu from working properly
- Made the 'use regular expressions' preference persist across launches
v2.3.2 23 Jan
Meta v2.3.1 brings mostly fixes targeting macOS Tahoe, and annoyances that just had to be fixed.
More to come soon, including a new icon hopefully — Ben
- Fixed a bug that caused views to disappear when tabbing through in the sidebar
- Fixed a bug where the menu to add pattern items wouldn't be displayed
- Fixed a hang when using the "Add to Library" function
- Fixed multiple layout and design issues in macOS Tahoe
- Restored the ability to use recents by click-dragging the "Rename" and "Derive" toolbar buttons
- Added the ability to select “file info” and “audio properties” metadata in “Compose Tag”
v2.3.1 13 Jan
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
v2.3 01/11/2025
New:
- New “Import Artworks” feature, allows to batch-fetch images according to a filename pattern
Enhancements & Fixes:
- The “Browse” artwork feature now points by default to the common parent of the currently selected files
- Find & Replace now offers to save specific searches, instead of offering recents
- Find & Replace now offers a button to re-launch a search
- Some “Title Case” rules have been refined
- Fixed a bug in “Track Numbering” where the counter would reset when album names are empty
2.2 02/02/2023
Enhancements:
- Track Numbering now offers an option to reset the count, when the files are in another directory or have a different album name
- Track Numbering now offers assigning disc numbers/total
2.1.6 08/11/2022
What's New?
- Added support for syncing changes with the Doppler Music Library
- Added a preference to specify your preferred music library app (targeted by the 'Add to Library' feature)
2.1.5 01/09/2022
New:
- New string transform called “Sentence Case” is available
- Tag Finder is now fully part of Meta
Enhancements & Fixes:
- Text-editing popovers (comments, lyrics…) now automatically save edits
- Text-editing popovers (comments, lyrics…) can now be dragged and detached for consecutive editing
- Fixed slash characters wrongfully being converted to colons when using the “Compose Tag” tool
2.1.4 27/06/2022
Enhancements & Fixes:
- Fixed a bug when Importing CSV
- Tag Finder: Added custom filter options
- Tag Finder: Fixed parsing of indexes and sub-tracks, Handle Artist-per-track, added the “Track-Total” tag
2.1.3 31/03/2022
Enhancements & Fixes:
- Fixed numerous layout issues on macOS Monterey
- Fixed table header drawing in dark mode on macOS Monterey
- Fixed missing allowed file types in the open panel
- Updated the tag engine “Taglib” to latest v1.12. (Mostly enhanced stability & Improved tolerance of tag-data chunks)
2.1.2 24/01/2022
Enhancements & Fixes:
- Fixed batch-pasting to file names (preserves file extensions)
- Cover Finder: Fixed fetching “XL” sized artworks
- Tag Finder: Ignore headings data in tracklist
- Tag Finder: Fixed year number formatting
- Tag Finder: Added a “To Selection” matching mode
- Tag Finder: Save the selected track's tags when double clicking a row in the tracklist
2.1.1 10/01/2022
What's New?
- Find tags and artworks online using the Discogs database
Enhancements:
- New and refreshed toolbar icons
- Writes FLAC Artworks before Vorbis Artworks, for enhanced compatibility
- Stopped overriding the URL of the save panel when exporting tags/playlists, thus preserving the most recently used location
- Format guessing in “Import Tags” is now avoided when format is too big, to avoid possible interface sluggishness
Fixes:
- Fixed the display of “File Info” tokens in recent patterns
- Fixed “Move to” toolbar item recents management
- Fixed a crash possibly triggered by autocomplete
- Fixed a crash when tag-extracting booleans and date types
2.1 16/09/2021
Enhancements:
- Added the ability to use “File Info” tokens in “Rename Files”
Fixes:
- Fixed flawed MP4 Movement Number/Total Implementation
- Fixed "Replace all" failing when multiple results are found at different ranges for the same file & tag
- Fixed the look of toolbar icons under older macOS releases
- Fixed a missing localization
2.0.7 23/06/2021
Enhancements:
- Reworked and unified tag context menus
- Added a helpful 'Find & Replace' option to tag-context menus, that updates the search scope accordingly
- Added an option that allows for keeping folder tags when using “Create Directories”
2.0.6 08/06/2021
What's New:
• Refreshed App Icon
Enhancements:
• Changed JPEG image export extension to “.jpg”, for maximum compatibility
• More straightforward Find & Replace interface
• User preferences now allows for turning off completions entirely
• Preferred startup folder now uses “None” initially, instead of “Last Used”
Fixes:
• Fixed a crash when editing
• Fixed a drawing issue in converters, where pattern drawing would be clipped to the first displayed token
• Fixed issues with recording custom genres
• Fixed “Size to Fit” when double-clicking a column separator not accounting for the preferred list size
• The example string in “compose tag“ is now forced to single line mode
2.0.5 02/06/2021
What's New:
• Native support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs (ARM64).
• New find & replace sidebar with search scopes, pattern matching, and recents.
• New “Import Tags” command, to extract tags from CSV files.
• New command to “Refresh Tags”, ie. re-read metadata from disk.
• New artwork thumbnails in the list view, for easier lookup.
• Added “.ape” file format support
• Added “Description” tag
Enhancements:
• Faster rendering of the list view
• Autocomplete now also suggests currently listed metadata
Fixes:
• Fixed Meta setting itself up as default for many audio formats
• Fixed a bug where view selector would fail to operate under older versions of macOS
• Fixed a bug that prevented editing the value of track and disc total in the sidebar
v2.0.4 19/05/2021
Warning: This is a temporary rollback to v1.9.9, because a sneaky window bug has crept in.
If you updated to v2.0 and the software runs fine, feel free to ignore this update.
2.0.1 16/05/2021
What's new?
- Native support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs (ARM64).
- New Find & Replace sidebar with: search scopes, pattern matching, and recents.
- Import tags from CSV files.
Enhancements:
- New command to “Refresh tags” (ie. re-read metadata from disk when changed externally to Meta)
- Artwork thumbnails in the list view, for easier lookup
- Faster rendering of the list view
- Added “.ape” file format support
- Added “Description” tag
- Added “Previous” option to the startup directory selector
- Autocomplete now also suggests currently listed metadata
Fixes:
- Fixed Meta setting itself up as default for many audio formats
- Fixed view selector tab issues for machines ante macOS 11
- Fixed a bug that prevented from editing the "total" part of track/disc numbers in the sidebar
2.0.0 14/05/2021
Fixes:
- Fixed unreachable Cover Finder
- Fixed autocomplete from completing in the middle of a word
- Fixed tag-targeted paste wrongfully also pasting artworks, when present
- Fixed a bug when using “special” copy
1.9.9 11/03/2021
- Fixed a possible crash scenario, when focus leaves the filter
- Fixed a localization typo (Play)
- Reverted Find Tags Keyboard binding to ⌘⇧F , by popular demand
- Moved Artwork Submenu, to Tags Menu
more Version 2.3.9 2 Apr
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