If you’re a musician, DJ, or music enthusiast, chances are you care deeply about your music library. Meta helps with every aspect of managing a digital music collection, and saves you time when you rip vinyls or download music from third-party stores…
Working with Meta is remarkably simple, mostly because its layout is very intuitive. You can view Tags, Audio Properties, File Info, and Artwork Info.
Editor Configurations
allow you to customise the layout of tags you want to edit in the sidebar.
Quickly switch between configurations like Standard, Extended, Publishing, Classical, Podcasts, etc… depending on your current needs.
Meta supports all popular audio formats such as mp3, mp4, m4a, m4b, m4v, aiff, wav, flac, ogg, oga, opus, spx, dsf, dsdiff, and writes metadata formats ID3v1, ID3v2 (v2.3, v2.4), MP4, Vorbis, INFO and APE Tags.
Most of the changes you do will be aimed at multiple files — like setting missing album artwork. Meta's sidebar allows for applying changes to a selection of files, instantly.
Clicking on the tag’s name in the sidebar pops up a special menu for batch string transforms and editing operations (cut, copy, paste), which is useful for exchanging data as CSV with spreadsheet apps like Numbers or Excel.
Find tags and album artworks online thanks to the Discogs online database.
Filter results by media type (CD, Vinyl, File, Cassette…) and apply changes in a single click.
This is an optional feature, offered as a non-expiring in-app purchase.
Find hi-quality album artworks online instantly and effortlessly,
and specify your preferred image size (Normal, Large, XL).
Album artworks are easily set or replaced by dragging images to the artwork view. You can adjust existing images on-demand (scale, crop, compress), and configure Meta to automatically adjust new images upon adding, in order to keep your audio files size to a minimum.
If you're aiming for consistent naming of your music files, Meta's ability to compose file names using Tags will prove of great help.
Specify a naming pattern and automatically rename each file according to its metadata.
In a similar manner, organise files in sub-directories by specifying a file path pattern.
Slashes in the pattern will be interpreted as a folder delimiter, thus each file will be moved to the directory path generated by its own metadata.
In a reversed manner, Meta can extract Tag information from file names, file paths, or other metadata, by matching it against a pattern.
Regular expressions or escape tokens
will allow you to ignore unwanted information from the Tags.
Finally, compose a Tag's value by mixing plain text and metadata tokens.
This feature will prove particularly useful when wanting to append or prepend text to the current tag's value.
When it comes to editing albums or compilations, you don't want to be manually assigning each track number. Thanks to the Track Numbering assistant, just arrange tracks in the desired order, and let Meta do the rest.
Find and replace text, words, or regular expressions in the Tags, using the native text finder interface.
Perform text replacements iteratively or in a single go using the Replace All command.
Meta's sidebar features utility popovers that help you edit specific tags like:
Metadata preferences allow you to choose which type of metadata formats will be written to your files. Different versions of the ID3v2 format are available.
For example, the Finder will only be able to read ID3v2.3 Tags. Or if you input text in Cyrillic, you will need to use ID3v2.4 encoded either with UTF-8 or UTF-16.
Once you're done editing in Meta, you can add the files to your library or refresh the changes in one click. Meta can also auto-complete when typing using data from your music library.
Meta was built with care for great user experience. It features everything you would expect from a decent Mac App, including time savers like Drag & Drop, QuickLook, and more…
Meta is powered by a well-tested, open-source tagging engine called TagLib. Edits are instantaneous, and if you make a mistake, you can always undo your changes.
