Organize your music collection, with Meta for Mac.
If you’re a musician, DJ, or music enthusiast, chances are you care deeply about your music. 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.
Group changes by selecting multiple files and using the sidebar as a shared workspace: Changes apply to tags across the entire selection.
Group Changes Cut, Copy, Paste Transform & Substitute Text
Tag Finder | Find missing track info online
Search for metadata & album covers, via discogs.com, the free music database
Filter your search by media type (CD, File, Vinyl…), then select which tags to import.
Let “Auto Match” determine how to associate results with each track.
Cover Finder | Find hi-quality album covers online
Specify your preferred image size: Normal, Large, XL
Edit Artworks, Properly
Fine-tune existing artworks (Scale, Crop, Compress), and automatically optimize newly imported images, keeping your file sizes small.
Drag & Drop Crop, Scale, Compress Batch Import & Export
Rename, Derive, Compose…
Meta offers a plethora of converters to help you with manipulating tag data and file data. Transition from one information source to another, using descriptive patterns for: File names, tag extraction, folder creation, or even tag creation.
Rename Files
Rename files according to a pattern.
Derive Tags
Take tag information by matching a pattern agains file names, file paths, or other tags.
Create Directories
Organise files into sub-directories. The slash '/' character is interpreted by the app as a folder delimiter.
Number Tracks
Drag tracks in the desired order, and let the assistant assign Track № and Disc №, to your album or compilation.
Find & Replace Text
Search for text, words, and patterns.
Patterns allow you to describe formats composed of text and capture groups, and to replace text within a given format.
Find & Replace Text Match Patterns Replace / Replace All
Visualize Grouped Values
The mixed editor panel allows you to visualize tags, in a grouped manner.
In the example aside, 16 files have been selected, revealing differences for the Album Artist tag. The use count of each variation appears rightmost to each entry.
The Pick menu offers to select between available options, and replace them with a single one.
Input Special Data
Meta's sidebar features editing interfaces that help you with the input of some of the more complex tags, like with Multiline Text, Tempo, Track Length, or Dates.
Tempo / BPM
Length
Dates
Multiline Text
Custom Tag Layouts
Meta lets you create multiple sidebar layouts, each tailored to a specific task or context.
Decide which tags matter, and leave the rest out. Then move seamlessly between layouts without breaking your flow.
Your Tagging Preferences
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 Cyrillic input, select ID3v2.4 encoded with UTF-8 or UTF-16.
Full Media Support
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.
Talks to Music Libraries
Stay in-sync when you make changes in Meta thanks to built-in support for the iTunes, Music, and Doppler libraries.
Built for macOS
Meta embraces macOS standards and best practices, and is built with care for great user experience.
Fast, Clean, Reliable
Meta is powered by TagLib, an open-source tag engine, that ensures swift edits and reliable file writes.
