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Meta for Mac

Music tag editor.

$24.99
In English
Version 2.2
4.3
Based on 10 user rates

Meta overview

Meta helps you manage your ever-growing digital music collection. Use it to easily edit information such as a song's artist, title, album, album cover, etc. It supports editing of most audio formats such as MP3, MP4, M4A, FLAC, Ogg, OGA, SPX, WAV, AIFF, and a variety of metadata formats including ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, Vorbis comments, and APE tags.

Features:
  • A polished, intuitive user interface that adopts OS X's standards
  • Write metadata to multiple files at once (Batch Tag Editing)
  • Remove all metadata from files (Strip Tags)
  • Change typecase (capitalise, upper/lowercase, titlecase), strip underscores
  • Rename files based on their metadata or instead, convert filenames to metadata
  • Find and Replace characters, words, or strings in metadata, with support for regular expressions (patterns)
  • Add selected tracks to iTunes, or refresh their metadata using a simple keyboard shortcut
  • Automatically generate track numbers
  • Benefit from built in file management operations (Move, Delete, Reveal in Finder)
  • Interface is compatible with Retina displays

Album covers can easily be set or exported via drag-and-drop, and it is possible to configure Meta so that it scales, crops, and compresses images each time a new image is set, so as to keep your audio files' size to a minimum.

What’s new in version 2.2

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

Meta for Mac

$24.99
In English
Version 2.2

What users say about Meta

alexapps
By alexapps on Jun 22 2021 for v.2.0.6

Features: 5.0

It is perfect for updating metadata of music before uploading to Youtube Music (as you cannot update metadata there directly). It is also great for renaming voice memos from iPhone as the names of the memos are in the 'Title' metadata.

Other user ratings:

Value | 5.0
Ease of use | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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Meta qualities

Value
5.0
Ease of use
5.0
Features
5.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
5.0

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4.3

(9 Reviews of Meta)

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  • User Ratings

Castle-Rose
Castle-Rose
May 14 2023
2.1.5
1.0
May 14 2023
1.0
Version: 2.1.5
No longer available. The web page and app are MIA. :(
OhEssex
OhEssex
Dec 20 2021
2.1
0.0
Dec 20 2021
0.0
Version: 2.1
Bummer of an app name now that FaceBook is using it to cover up it's global toxicity.
alexapps
alexapps
Jun 22 2021
2.0.6
5.0
Jun 22 2021
5.0
Version: 2.0.6
Perfect app for batch updating audio metadata. I use it for setting Album Artwork of music before uploading to Youtube Music (as you can no longer edit metadata there). It is also useful for updating Voice Memos imported from iPhones as the name of the memos is in the 'Title' metadata. I contacted the dev with a feature request and he implemented the change so quickly I couldn't believe it. Highly recommend!
Septic Monkey
Septic Monkey
Mar 1 2020
1.9.5
3.0
Mar 1 2020
3.0
Version: 1.9.5
Needs a 'select column' function. Otherwise, it's extremely time consuming having to scroll-double click-delete every single piece of data. Tag editor has this function and it saves so much time. Just a suggestion.
Shane-Smith
Shane-Smith
Sep 27 2017
1.7.2
0.0
Sep 27 2017
0.0
Version: 1.7.2
Will this eventually get lookups from MusicBrainz or Discogs? I wish there was a save/next button on this instead of having to click on each individual song.
Castle-Rose
Castle-Rose
May 14 2023
2.1.5
1.0
May 14 2023
1.0
Version: 2.1.5
alexapps
alexapps
Jun 22 2021
2.0.6
5.0
Jun 22 2021
5.0
Version: 2.0.6
Septic Monkey
Septic Monkey
Mar 1 2020
3.0
Mar 1 2020
3.0
Version: null
SteveGosselin
SteveGosselin
Mar 21 2019
5.0
Mar 21 2019
5.0
Version: null
TCalhau
TCalhau
May 7 2017
4.5
May 7 2017
4.5
Version: null
terrytrinder
terrytrinder
Apr 6 2017
4.0
Apr 6 2017
4.0
Version: null
atarov
atarov
Nov 16 2016
5.0
Nov 16 2016
5.0
Version: null
pietz
pietz
Jun 23 2016
5.0
Jun 23 2016
5.0
Version: null
jimixdnb
jimixdnb
Mar 8 2016
5.0
Mar 8 2016
5.0
Version: null
nightbirdsevolve
nightbirdsevolve
Jun 12 2015
5.0
Jun 12 2015
5.0
Version: null