Free Mp3tag Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Mp3tag for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is MusicBrainz Picard, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Mp3tag and 14 are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Mp3tag are Kid3, beets, OneTagger and TidyTag Music Tag Editor.

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  1. MusicBrainz Picard icon

    MusicBrainz Picard

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    Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries -...

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    Comments about MusicBrainz Picard as an Alternative to Mp3tag
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
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    The discription is wrong, it does download and save cover art.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    ChildishGiant
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    If its automatic recognition fails, you're screwed as you seemingly cannot manually give a tag to a file.

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    MusicBrainz adds a bunch of own tags. Like a copy of every regular ID3 tag, it adds the same tag with a MusicBrainz id key. I dont use an MP3tagger to clutter my metadata even more. Looked in MusicBrainz options, but this cant be turned off. You can create a script to remove them, after MB adds them ..

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    • MusicBrainz Picard is Free and Open SourceMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    Kid3

     67 likes

    If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you...

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    • Flathub
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    I moved from windows to mac and now Kid3 is working as a great mp3 id3 tag editor, found a great software, thanks alternativeto

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Kid3 is Free and Open SourceMp3tag is Free and Proprietary
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    beets

     33 likes

    Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  5. OneTagger icon

    OneTagger

     7 likes

    Cross-platform music tagger written in Rust, Vue.js and Quasar. It can fetch metadata from Beatport, Traxsource, Juno Download and Discogs. It is also able to fetch Spotify's Audio Features based on ISRC & exact match.

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  6. TidyTag Music Tag Editor icon

    TidyTag Music Tag Editor

     1 like

    Easily handle music organization with TidyTag, supporting various audio formats and metadata standards. Features include batch tagging, duplicate file cleaning, manual lyric addition, and file renaming. Enjoy seamless music playback while editing.

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    • Freemium
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  7. Demlo

     5 likes

    Demlo organizes your music library automatically and dynamically. It runs a chain of user-defined scripts using variables such as tags and file properties. This way it yields virtually unlimited customization power to the user.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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    bliss

     10 likes

    bliss performs all the hard work in organizing your music collection; making it consistent, correct and complete with little effort.

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    • Freemium
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  10. Amvidia Tag Editor for Mac icon

    Amvidia Tag Editor for Mac

     4 likes

    Discover the newest way of editing tags and renaming music files through the handy spreadsheet. Tag Editor allows to download, edit, clean up multiple tags and rename files by batch in one spreadsheet with full control over changes.

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    Handy spreadsheet for quick audio tagging on macOS.
     
  11. KeepVid Music Tag Editor icon

    KeepVid Music Tag Editor

     2 likes

    KeepVid Music Tag Editor helps you to add or modify ID3 tags, album artworks for your music collection automatically with Gracenote Media Database, and removes duplicates in iTunes/music library.

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    • Freemium
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    Media Tagger

     26 likes

    Tagger is application that auto tags audio files. It also supports batch tag editing.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    Multiple files can be edited at once.
     
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    Shelfarr

     1 like

    Shelfarr is a free, open-source bulk audiobook renamer that proposes clean, consistent filenames using embedded tags and optional Audiobookshelf metadata. Preview changes before applying them, rename in batches, and undo when needed.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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