What's New in Tag Editor for Mac

Tag Editor 2.0.1

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

Finder/Spotlight metadata support — “Where From” and "Finder Tags".
Video metadata — improved width, height, frame-rate & codec tags.
Audio metadata — improved M4A/ALAC support.
Bitrate & Sample Rate — precise detection up to 384 kHz.
Bit Depth — accurate 16‑, 24‑, and 32‑bit tag support.

USABILITY UPDATES

Fix Encoding — auto-detect & correct tag encoding issues.

UNDER-THE-HOOD IMPROVEMENTS

IFPI & MusicBrainz integration — faster, more reliable tag lookups.
Reliability improvements — internal tweaks and optimizations.

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Upgrade now to enjoy blazing-fast, intelligent tagging with Tag Editor 2. Your music and video library will thank you!

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Tag Editor 2.0

Tag Editor 2 brings faster, more innovative metadata tools, built for seamless audio and video tagging.

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

Edit 170+ tags across MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, MP4, and M4A files.
New Column Layouts for Classical, Roon, Podcast, and Audiobooks.
Better Video metadata support for streamlined video tagging.
Auto-fill tags from file names, folders, or online sources.
Smarter artwork loading from local folders and libraries.

USABILITY UPDATES

AutoComplete is on by default and now covers more fields.
Improved Music/iTunes integration and syncing.
Smarter column defaults for cleaner, quicker setup.

UNDER-THE-HOOD IMPROVEMENTS

Faster tag handling for MP4, FLAC, WAV, and ID3v2 files.
Updates for macOS 15 for compatibility and stability.

Tag Editor 1.0.16

Improvements for support of WAV and AIFF files.
Improvements for editing artworks.
Improvements for renaming files.
Improvements for loading tags from network services and path components
Fixes and improvements for loading artworks from local folders.
Improvements for support of macOS Sequoia.
Experience a seamless, uninterrupted workflow thanks to bug fixes and better usability.

Tag Editor 1.0.15

REDESIGNED TOOLBAR

The new toolbar includes more than 40 Tag Editor actions and tools. You can choose which actions and tools to display and how they are arranged:

Enjoy quicker and easier access to frequently used commands by adding corresponding buttons to the toolbar.
Use Tag Editor toolbar more efficiently by removing unused buttons.
Optimize workflow by rearranging toolbar buttons according to your priorities.

CUSTOM COLUMN LAYOUTS

Save and restore custom column layouts with the new 'View / Column Layout' menu.
Move columns left or right using keyboard shortcuts, toolbar buttons, or the View menu.
Auto-Size or Auto-Fit columns using keyboard shortcuts, toolbar buttons, or the new 'View / Column Size' menu.
Hide Read-Only Columns using View and table header menus.
Manage columns using accessory buttons in the table header.
'View / Column' menu has been reworked.
iTunes Advisory column has been renamed to Explicit/Clean.
New File column shows file extension.

MORE VERSATILE RAPID TAGGING

Enjoy more flexible and reliable functions included in the Rapid Tagging subscription:

Improved Basic and Advanced File Renaming, Assign Tracks Numbers, Advanced Removal of Characters, and Compose Tags functionalities.
Use the accessory cell button to auto-search and load Artist, Album, Title, and Genre tags from online databases or paths.
Transfer Finder Tags while copying or exporting files to folders.
New 'Remove Emoji and Supplementary Characters' command in the 'Edit / Remove Characters' menu.
Improved import of Music tags.

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

Fixes for IFPI and Discogs Web Searches.
Better support of AIFF and tagless WAV files.
Experience a seamless, uninterrupted workflow thanks to bug fixes and better usability.
Optimization for macOS Sequoia.

Tag Editor 1.0.14

Improved compatibility with macOS Sonoma.
New menu Edit / Remove Characters / Advanced. The Remove Characters Advanced allows more precise batch cleaning of redundant characters' tags. You can customize options for removing leading or trailing punctuations and digits, trailing text in brackets, emoji, and supplementary Unicode characters.
New menu Edit / Remove Characters / Emoji and Supplementary Characters.
Improved Export to Folder, Show in Finder, and Export to Music functionality.

Tag Editor 1.0.11

NEW EDITABLE COLUMNS:

Arranger
Artwork Format
Artwork Title
Artwork Type
ASIN
Bar Code
BPM
Catalog #
Category
Choir
Classical Catalog
Classical Nickname
Conductor
Description
Disk Subtitle
Disks Total
DJ Mixer
Disc Subtitle
Disks Total
DJ Mixer
Disc Subtitle
Energy
Engineer
Ensemble
Instrument
Is Classical
Is Compilation
Is Podcast
ISRC
iTunes Advisory

Label
Language
Lyrics
Lyricist
Media Kind
Mixer
Mood
Movement #
Movement Name
Movements Total
Opus
Orchestra
Original Artist
Original Lyricist
Part
Part Number
Part Type
Performer
Plays
Podcast ID
Podcast URL
Producer
Radio Station
Ranking
Rating
Release Date
Remixer
Sort Album
Sort Album Artist
Sort Arranger

Sort Arranger
Sort Artist
Sort Choir
Sort Composer
Sort Conductor
Sort Ensemble
Sort Orchestra
Sort Performer
Sort Title
Tag Format
Tags
Track Subtitle
Tracks Total
Work (Grouping)
Work Overall
Work Type.

NEW READ-ONLY COLUMNS

Artwork Size
Date Created
Date Modified
Owner

NEW SUPPORTED FORMATS

Import and export M3U, PLS, XSPF, ASX, and WPL playlists.
Import of CUE sheets.
Export to CSV and Text files.

COLUMN SETS:

Audio Properties
Artwork, Classical
Commerce
File Properties
Mood
People
Podcast
Sorting
Network & Paths
Music & iTunes.

USABILITY COMMANDS

'Move Up' and 'Move Down' for selected rows
'View > Column > Hide Empty Columns'
'View > Column > Show Non-Empty Columns'
'View > Column > Show Default Columns'

AUTO-SEARCH AND DOWNLOAD OF MUSIC TAGS

Select 'View > Column > Network & Paths > Show All' to see downloadable tags. They include Artwork, Album, Album Artist, Artist, ASIN, Bar Code, Catalog #, Composer, Disc #, Disks Total, Genre, ISRC, Label, Lyricist, Performer, Tags, Track #, Tracks Total, and Year.
Select 'Edit > Load Tags > From Network' to auto-search and download tags.
Compose and unify lists of downloaded Genres and Tags.
'Load ... From Path' contextual menu for batch converting path and filename components into Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Album Artist, Grouping, Comment, Tags, and Initial Key tags.

QUICKER TAGGING

Automatic' Advanced Renaming' feature.
'Assign Track Numbers' feature for automatically setting Track# and Tracks Total tags.
The 'File / Search Web' contextual menu allows quick browsing of Google, Genius, MusicBrainz, Discogs, and IFPI websites by Artist, Album, Title, and ISRC tags.
Autocomplete for Genre, Tags, Mood, Category, Language, Media Kind, iTunes Advisory, Is Compilation.
Customize predefined tag values for Genre, Tags, Mood, Category, Language, and Media Kind. To select or customize predefined values, click the round button in a tag cell.

INTEGRATION WITH APPLE MUSIC APP AND ITUNES

Select 'Tag Editor > File > Import from Music' to open the whole Music Library or a Playlist.
Drag-&-drop selected songs from the Music app or iTunes.
Select 'View > Column > Music & iTunes > Show All' to see all the details supported by Music/iTunes sogns.
The 'Edit > Load Tags > From Music' menu imports artwork and song details from the Music app as regular audio tags.
The 'File > Export To > Music' menu transfers songs in a Music/iTunes Playlist.
The 'File > Reload Music' command refreshes iTunes or Music app audio tags.

MUSIC ORGANIZER

'File > Export To > Folder' copies selected files to a folder or device.
'Organize destination folders' by Artist, Album, Album Artist, Title, Composer, Year, Comment, Track #, Tracks Total, Disc #, Discs Total, Genre, Grouping, Category, Mood, Key, and BPM tags.
'Rename destination files' feature.

OTHER NEW FEATURES

'File > Strip Tags' removes all audio tags.
'File > Move to Bin.'
Window tabs.
'Tag Editor > Clear Caches'.
Editable Tag Format.
Text mode for the toolbar

IMPROVEMENTS

Fixes for ID3v2.4 and FLAC/Vorbis tags.
Better opening and parsing of audio files.
Improved batch cut/copy/paste functionality.

Tag Editor 1.0.10

Comprehensive tag loading

Loading of Genre, Tags, Composer, Disc #, Discs Number, ISRC, Lyricist, Performer, Label, Catalog #, ASIN, and Barcode tags from network services.
Possibility to set a selected path component as Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Album Artist, Grouping, Comment, or Initial Key.

New column sets and tags

The new set of columns 'Network & Paths' for loading tags from paths and network services.
The new set of columns ‘Music & iTunes’ for loading tags from iTunes or Apple Music.
Support of Track Subtitle, Disc Subtitle, iTunes Advisory tags. Complete list of supported audio tags >>.

Quicker tagging

Automatic track numbering feature.
Autocomplete for Genre, Tags, Mood, Category, Language, and Media Kind columns.
Customization of predefined tag values for Genre, Tags, Mood, Category, Language, and Media Kind.
Possibility to compose and unify lists of Genres and Tags loaded from network services.
New ‘File / Search Web’ and ‘File / Move to Bin’ menu items.

Compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina

Support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Improvements for the 'Grant Access' dialog.
Fixes and improvements for export to iTunes and Apple Music.

Other improvements

Fixes and improvements for loading tags and artworks from network services and paths.
Improved export to Playlists, Text, and CSV files.
Improvements for opening and parsing of audio files.

Tag Editor 1.0.9

Support for 50+ new tags

New columns of commonly used audio tags, such as Lyrics, Rating, Tracks Total, Media Kind, Category, Is Compilation, Language, Plays, Radio Station, and Tags.
New columns of other tags are split into Classical, Commerce, Mood, People, Podcast, and Sorting thematic sets for your convenience.
Columns showing file properties and audio properties are combined into two corresponding sets. Audio Properties set and File Properties set can help with music organizing by displaying up to 15 technical, mostly read-only, attributes.

Find the full list of supported audio tags and properties here >>.

Integration with iTunes

Import of iTunes playlists with drag-&-drop.
Import of iTunes Rating and Plays and their conversion into standard audio tag formats.
Loading of other tags from iTunes.
Export to iTunes playlists.

New supported formats

Import of M3U, PLS, XSPF, ASX, WPL playlists.
Import of CUE sheets.
Export to M3U, PLS, XSPF, ASX, WPL playlists.
Export to CSV and Text files.

Find the full list of supported formats here >>.

Predefined tag values

Genre, Mood, Media Kind, and Language columns allow the selection of predefined values. To select a predefined value click the round button in a cell and choose the value from the list.

Other new features:

Support of window tabs on macOS 10.12 and higher. Move rows between tabs to help you better organize your music. For example, separate an artist's tracks into tabs for each artist album.
New commands ‘Hide Empty Columns’, ‘Show Non-Empty Columns’, and 'Show Default Columns' for easier column management.
Support of text mode for the toolbar.

Improvements:

Support for macOS 10.14 Mojave.
Improved import of tags from the network.
Improvements and fixes for cut/copy/paste functionality.
Improvements for stability.

Tag Editor 1.0.8

Improvements for loadings tags from MusicBrainz, the renaming of files, and stability.
Improved support for ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in the case of MP3 files.

Tag Editor 1.0.6

Stability improvements.

Tag Editor 1.0.5

Automatic retrieving of tags and artworks

Renaming

New tags

New columns for editing Album Artist, Frequency, Composer, Copyright, and Disc # tags. Find the full list of Tag Editor columns here >>.
New columns with technical information, such as Audio Codec, Audio Format, Bitrate, Channels, Duration, Sample Rate, and Tag Format.

Other improvements:

Full-Screen Mode.
Artwork dialogue window.
Quick Look.
WAV: Tag Editor supports both ID3v2 and Info tags for WAV files. All changes are saved in both formats.
FLAC: Tag Editor supports XIPH, ID3v1, and ID3v2 tags in FLAC files. If ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags are present in a file, their content is synchronized with XIPH tags.
New menu item: 'Select Row'.
New and improved keyboard shortcuts.
Stability and performance improvements.
Fixes for saving images in ID3v2 tags.
Fixes for extraction text tags from paths.
Fixes for function 'Remove Extra Characters'.

Tag Editor 1.0.0

Initial version

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What's New in Tag Editor