README for EasyTAG

November 27, 2023 · View on GitHub

Home page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG/ Discussion forum: https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/easytag

Description

EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and Opus, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.

Features

Currently EasyTAG supports the following:

  • view, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis, Speex and Opus files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/AAC (MP4/AAC tag), MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files (APE tag)
  • can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL and Encoder name
  • auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the fields (using masks)
  • ability to rename files and directories from the tag (using masks) or by loading a text file
  • process selected files of the selected directory
  • ability to browse subdirectories
  • recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving…
  • can set a field (artist, title, …) to all other selected files
  • read file header information (bitrate, time, …) and display them
  • auto completion of the date if a partial is entered
  • undo and redo last changes
  • ability to process fields of tag and filename (convert letters into upper case, lower case, …)
  • ability to open a directory or a file with an external program
  • CDDB support for manual or automatic search
  • a tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album
  • a list to select files
  • a playlist generator window
  • a file searching window
  • simple and explicit interface!
  • optional Nautilus extension, for opening of files and directories through the Nautilus context menu
  • Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian translation languages
  • written in C and uses GTK+ 3 for the GUI

Installation

Requirements

Compilation instructions

See INSTALL.

When running, if you get the following warning about the EasyTAG settings schema that is not installed:

(easytag:19122): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.EasyTAG' is not installed

make sure that the GSettings schema and enums files can be found somewhere in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/glib-2.0/schemas (for example /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas) and that the schema cache has been updated with glib-compile-schemas.

There are two files to copy to the schema path, and the glib-compile-schemas command must run on the directories which have been updated. Example commands follow:

sudo cp org.gnome.EasyTAG.enums.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas sudo cp data/org.gnome.EasyTAG.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

If uninstalling, the files should be removed and the schema cache updated.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

(It should be included in this package in the file COPYING)