Puddletag is a graphical audio file

metadata Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...

editor ("tagger") for

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operating systems. It is

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subject to the terms of the

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(GPL) version 3. In most major desktop Linux distributions, it is available from standard package repositories. Under

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(-based ones) it can be obtained from community repositories. The user interface is modeled after the popular Windows freeware ''

Mp3tag Mp3tag is a metadata tag editor that supports many popular audio file formats. It is freeware for Microsoft Windows, while it costs USD $19.99 for Apple macOS in the Mac App Store. Features * Batch Tag Editing. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4 ...

''. It uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags a user may want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. All the other audio taggers available for Linux take a different approach to user interface design. The interface elements can be freely arranged. In July 2008, the first version (0.1) was released via

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. The website counted several thousand downloads for each release before the project finally left the platform in early 2016 and was included in the package sources of most major Linux distributions. Version 1.0 was released in 2012, introducing support for AcoustID. Puddletag is written in

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and uses Qt 5 (through

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) for its graphical user interface. As backend it utilize
Mutagen
a Python module to handle audio metadata.

Features

Mutagen supports

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FLAC FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software p ...

, M4A,

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, MPC, Ogg

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, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Speex, Ogg Theora, Ogg

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, True Audio, WavPack, OptimFROG, and AIFF audio files. All versions of ID3v2 are supported, and all standard ID3v2.4 frames are parsed. It can read Xing headers to accurately calculate the bitrate and length of MP3s. ID3 and APEv2 tags can be edited regardless of audio format. It can also manipulate Ogg streams on an individual packet/page level. Puddletag includes support for the following audio formats:

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, MP4 (mp4/m4a/m4b/

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compatible),

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, OptimFROG OFR, OFS, SPX, TAK,

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, WMA, WV. * Batch Tag Editing. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4,

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, WMA,

APEv2 APE tags comprise one extant convention used to store information ( metadata) about a given digital audio file. Each APE tag constitutes a discrete element that describes a single attribute of the file's contents. Each consists of a key/value ...

Tags and

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s to multiple files at once. * Full

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support * Support for embedded album cover art * Automatically creates playlists * Recursive subfolder support * User-defined field mappings * Remove parts of a tag or the entire tag from multiple files * Rename and/or move files and folders based on the tag information * Import tags from filenames, text files and clipboard * Quick search and replace text in highlighted tracks/fields without having to resort to actions * Format tags and filenames * Replace characters or words from tags and filenames *

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* Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e.

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, CSV,

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, TXT AND

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) * Import tag information from online databases like

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AcoustID or

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(also by text-search) * Full

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integration * Import tag information from local freedb databases * Support for

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v2.3 (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and ID3v2.4 with

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* Automated Mass Tagging of multiple albums including the ability to enrich existing metadata using one or more metadata sources in a single operation * Single Album and Mass Album Tagging results can be accepted/edited/rejected at track and/or field level

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External links

* {{KDE 2008 software Audio software that uses Qt Free software programmed in Python Tag editors Tag editors for Linux Tag editors that use Qt

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