Updates
Meta is regularly updated to ensure smooth operation on the latest version of macOS. See the following release notes for details.
Tag Finder’s “Match Tracks” mode now works as expected.
Improvements to the Discogs matching workflow are planned, with a focus on a more hands-on and streamlined experience.
— Ben
What's New?
- Added Chinese Localizations 🇨🇳
- Added a syntax help link to the find & replace interface
- Automatically filter-out extraneous numbers from artist names in Tag Finder
Fixes
- Fixed “Match Tracks” mode being ignored in Tag Finder
Fixes
Fixes
- Attempted to fix a context-menu bug on multi-monitor setups
- Fixed a bug that prevented pattern recents menu from working properly
- Made the 'Use regular expressions' preference persist across launches
- Fixed a crash introduced in v2.3.2
Meta v2.3.1 brings mostly fixes targeting macOS Tahoe, and annoyances that just had to be fixed.
More to come soon, including a new icon — Ben
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused views to disappear when tabbing through in the sidebar
- Fixed a bug where the menu to add pattern items wouldn't be displayed
- Fixed a hang when using the "Add to Library" function
- Fixed multiple layout and design issues in macOS Tahoe
- Restored the ability to use recents by click-dragging the "Rename" and "Derive" toolbar buttons
- Added the ability to select “file info” and “audio properties” metadata in “Compose Tag”
Starting with Meta v2.3, you can use a new filter syntax that lets you target specific fields, exclude terms, and combine expressions — making it easy to build complex filtering queries quickly.
What's New?
- New Filter Syntax: Filter for specific fields, exclude terms, and combine filters
- Filter Recents Menu
Fixes
- Fixed a bug in the "Import Artworks" feature, that prevented it from working properly
- Renamed “Move to Bin” to “Move to Trash" for system coherence
- Renamed the "Tools" menu, into "Tag"
- Moved "Rename Files" and "Arrange Into Directories" commands to the "File" menu
- Overall UI fine tuning
Fixes
- Updated Paddle SDK to
v4.5.1, to fix UI unresponsiveness under macOS 26+
Fixes
- Updated Paddle Licensing SDK to version 4.5
- Fixed: "Size to Fit Contents" now properly ignores hidden files (accounts for filter status)
What's New?
- The Import Artworks feature allows to batch-fetch images according to a filename pattern
- Find & Replace now allows to save & manage searches manually
- Find & Replace has refresh button
- Titlecase behavior was refined
Fixes
- When browsing for artworks, the prompt now defaults to the files first common ancestor
- Fixed a bug in Track Numbering where the counter would reset when album names are empty
What's New?
- Added an option to reset count for each new directory / album name, in “Number Tracks”
- Added the ability to assign disc numbers/total, in “Number Tracks”
What's New?
- Choose your preferred music library
- Built-in support for syncing with the Doppler music library
What's New?
- New string transform: “Sentence Case”
- Tag Finder is now no longer an add-on, and part of Meta by default
- Text-editing popovers now automatically save edits and can be dragged and detached
Fixes
- Fixed slash characters wrongfully being converted to colons when using the “Compose Tag” tool
What's New?
- Added the ability to filter by Media-Type, in Tag Finder
Fixes
- Fixed a bug when Importing CSV
- Fixed parsing of indexes and sub-tracks, in Tag Finder
- Handle Artist-per-track, add “Track-Total”, in Tag Finder
What's New?
- Updated tag engine Taglib to
v1.12
Fixes
- Fixed numerous layout issues on macOS Monterey
- Fixed file list header drawing on macOS Monterey
- Fixed missing allowed file types in the open panel
What's New?
- Added a “To Selection” matching mode in Tag Finder
- Added the ability to save the selected track's tags, when double clicking a row, in Tag Finder's track list
Fixes
- Ignore track list headings data in Tag Finder
- Fixed year number formatting in Tag Finder
- Fixed batch-pasting to file names (preserves file extensions)
- Fixed fetching “XL” sized artworks in Cover Finder
What's New?
- Tag Finder: Find tags & artworks online, thanks to the Discogs database
Fixes
- Refreshed Toolbar Icons
- Fixed token field recents displaying 'file info' tokens incorrectly
Fixes
- Added the ability to use "File Info" tokens in "Rename Files"
- Fixed flawed MP4 Movement Number/Total Implementation
- Fixed "Replace all" failing when multiple results are found at different ranges for the same file & tag
- Fixed the look of toolbar icons under older macOS releases
- Fixed a missing localization
Fixes
- Reworked and unified tag context menus
- Added a helpful “Find & Replace” option to tag-context menus, that updates the search scope accordingly
- Added an option that allows for keeping folder tags when using “Create Directories”
What's New?
Fixes
- Changed JPEG image export extension to “.jpg”, for maximum compatibility
- More straightforward “Find & Replace” interface
- User preferences now allows for turning off completions entirely
- Preferred startup folder now uses “None” initially, instead of “Last Used”
- Fixed a crash when editing
- Fixed a drawing issue in converters, where pattern drawing would be clipped to the first displayed token
- Fixed issues with recording custom genres
- Fixed “Size to Fit” when double-clicking a column separator not accounting for the preferred list size
- The example string in “compose tag“ is now forced to single line mode
What's New?
- New Find & Replace interface, featuring pattern matching, search scopes, and recents management
- New Import Tags feature, to import and extract tags from CSV files
- New Reload Tags command, to re-read metadata from disk
- New artwork previews in the list view, makes for a nicer browsing experience
- Added
.ape file format support
- Added “Description” tag support
Fixes
- Faster rendering of the list view
- Autocomplete now also suggests currently listed metadata
- Fixed Meta setting itself up as default for many audio formats
- Fixed a bug where view selector would fail to operate under older versions of macOS
- Fixed a bug that prevented editing the value of track and disc total in the sidebar
Fixes
- Fixed unreachable Cover Finder
- Fixed autocomplete from completing in the middle of a word
- Fixed tag-targeted paste wrongfully also pasting artworks when present
- Fixed a bug when using special copy
Fixes
- Added “Remove From Recents” command to token fields recents menu
- Toggle sidebar visibility using the view selector segmented control
- Fixed cropped artwork view
- Fixed “Add to Library” command failing silently
What's New?
- macOS Big Sur Optimizations
- Added support for “Work” and “Movement” Tags
- Added a user preference for keeping iTunes/Music.app compatibility (Affects grouping and work tags)
- New popover assistant editor for “Length” Tag
- Batch-convert between Traditional & Simplified Chinese
- Display artwork properties when hovering
- Added a “Browse” button to the artwork toolbar
- Discrete progress indicator in lower right corner of the info-bar (macOS 10.15 and later)
- Refactored Column Management Menus
- Automatic playlist export name
- “Copy” now also copies data as CSV
- Shiny new default view configurations for first timers
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused artwork writing to fail silently on first run
- Fixed failed progress reporting when performing “Move” operations
- Fixed missing zero-padding when using “Compose Tag”
- Fixed composing an empty Tag of numeric type resulting in an interpretation error
- Fixed tracks under 1 minute long not displaying leading zeroes
- Targeted an incorrect Vorbis APE key for “Track Title Sort”
What's New?
- New optional info-bar
- Added recents to startup folder selector
Fixes
- Preserve formatting when batch copy-pasting
- Strip newlines from pattern-generated strings
- More explicit “Copy” labels
- Fixed display of multiline text in sidebar
- Fixed purging of window sessions on quit
- Fixed “Convert to Tags” badly extracting comma-separated text
- Fixed an access failure issue causing a unintended display of the “Remove directory” popup
What's New?
- Added support for macOS Catalina / Music App
- Easier column management functions, with customisable default configuration
- New transform command: “Trim Whitespace”
- New transform command: “With Underscores” (alternate command to “Sans Underscores”)
Fixes
- Added ability to compose numerical tag types using “Compose Tag”
- Added artist name completion to Cover Finder's search field
- Better German Localisations
- Implemented coloring of token-based example text
- Fixed a possible hang on app start
- Fixed “add to iTunes” to work with “Music” app, and renamed function to “Add to library”
What's New?
- Мета теперь доступна на русском языке 🇷🇺
- Added a preference to customise the app's editor & list size
Fixes
- Fixed showing the artwork's menu when Control-Clicking
- Fixed showing error messages when files are detected as flawed
- Fixed “To titlecase” rule: Keep “the” as lowercase
- Fixed folder configured to “open at startup” wrongly pushed to the top of the recents menu
What's New?
- New “Swap Tags” utility
- Added a general preference to always select all files added
Fixes
- You can now batch copy/cut/paste from the artwork view's context menu
- Items with a similar name in the recents lists can now be more easily dissociated
- Fixed a crash when showing the context menu for the artwork column
- Fixed “Remove” command not being available when selected artworks differ
- Fixed a bug that caused completion to malfunction
- Fixed batch-pasting from Microsoft Excel
- Fixed general preference pane randomly being too tall
Fixes
- Added progress report and cancelling when performing “Add to Library”
- Fixed a bug that caused a '2' to be appended to filenames when renaming with only capitalisation changes
- Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented dragging images from Safari
- Fixed showing the artwork view's context menu when using control+click
Fixes
- Added a menu item to help recovering lost product licenses
- Fixed insertion point color in dark mode
- Fixed coalescing of tag write operations
- Fixed “Show License” menu item not working
- Fixed auto-moving script failing to cleanup on macOS 10.12 and later
What's New?
- Added hardened runtime and app notarization support
- Added dark mode support
- Major performance improvements ⚡️
- Added options to reveal files, move accompanying, and remove empty folders in Create Directories
- Added audio-properties to rename files / create directories
- Specify path components when exporting artworks
- New “Paste Tags” and “Paste Artwork” context menu actions
- New “Bit Depth” audio property
Fixes
- Context menu “Cut” & “Copy” actions now include artworks by default
- Fixed “Add to iTunes” on macOS Mojave, to handle POSIX-style paths and new security restrictions
- Fixed copying wrong artwork representation, causing images to be smaller when pasting outside of Meta
- Fixed failing progress sheet dismissal when the parent window was hidden
- Fixed targeting the wrong directory when prompting for sandbox access
- Re-allowed usage of path modifiers in “Create Directories” and “Rename Files”
What's New?
- The Export Artworks feature gives the ability to batch-export artworks following a naming pattern
- Meta now offers recovery options when file operations fail
- Create Directories now shows a progress indicator and offers an option to copy files
Fixes
- When browsing for audio files, only accepted types will be selectable
- System Information
.spx files are now ignored. (were previously mistaken for OGG Speex audio files)
- Fixed various crashes when using Find & Replace
- Fixed a crash when importing files
- Fixed a crash when backspace-deleting in the sidebar editor
- Fixed thumbnail image resolution for retina macs in the Cover Finder
- Fixed a bug where the album name would not be pre-filled in the Cover Finder
Fixes
- “To Titlecase” now properly ignores roman numerals (will leave them uppercase)
- Fixed a bug that caused licensing of in-app purchases to fail
- Fixed a bug that randomly prevented Meta from opening OGG Vorbis files
- Fixed a bug where moving files across a different volume could allow duplicate entries
- Fixed a crash when reloading artworks
- Fixed a crash when adjusting multiple artworks, and one of them is undefined
- Fixed a crash when changing the precision of ‘Mixed’ dates
- Fixed a crash when dropping files while a move operation is in progress
What's New?
- The new Cover Finder feature helps you find hi-quality album covers online
- The new artwork toolbar gives a more hands-on experience when editing
- Bumped the required minimum system version to macOS 10.10
Fixes
- When batch-pasting, whitespace is now trimmed from both ends of every line
- Fixed a buggy animation on macOS 10.13
- Fixed a crash when passing a null URL to the tag engine
- Fixed sidebar not saving its layout and sometimes not allowing itself to be resized
- Added missing declaration for
.opus files that prevented Meta from opening those types of files
What's New?
- Export Tags to a CSV document
Fixes
- Fixed sorting of text with numerical content in the table view (Now identical to the System/Finder)
- Fixed ID3v2's “Genre” implementation from displaying genre IDs instead of their textual counterpart
- Fixed a crash when trying to set a PDF as artwork
- Fixed a rare crash when reloading artworks
What's New?
- Meta ya está disponible en español 🇪🇸
WAV INFO and MPEG APE metadata write options are now enabled by default
Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash for macOS up to 10.11
- Fixed a bookmarking issue for macOS up to 10.11
- Fixed 'add To iTunes' sheet freezing because of rapid multiple-clicks
What's New?
- The Compose Tag tool allows to compose a tag's value using patterns
- Select Similar selects items with identical metadata as the last clicked item
- Added a preference to clear the list when new files are dragged
- Added key equivalents to adjust artworks, number tracks, and string transforms.
Fixes
- The “Create Directories” feature is now also applying the NTFS/CIFS sanitizing preference.
- Changed the key equivalents for “Rename Files” and “Convert to Tags”.
- Completions taken from iTunes are now split by comma when parsed into Meta's database.
- Default export location is now relative to the currently selected files.
- Meta now offers to fix file permissions issues when failing to save changes.
Fixes
- Meta ignores 'Open directory at launch' when targeting a specified set of files
- Prevent some crashes on systems prior to macOS 10.10
Fixes
- Fixed a crash on
.m3u export
What's New?
- Added support for Direct Stream Digital audio files (DSF / DSDIFF)
- Added the ability to import / export
.m3u playlist files
- Added a preference that allows selecting a directory to be opened on app launch
Fixes
- Fixed showing the app's main window when launching Meta using an app-icon drag
- Meta is now tolerant to 'similar' Vorbis XIPH Frames for Comments, Year, and Track Number
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where entering a track/disc total would freeze the app
What's New?
- Meta è ora disponibile in italiano 🇮🇹
- Separate view configuration switcher
- Added 'Select Next' and 'Select Previous' commands
What's New?
- Added completions for the 'Grouping' tag, using iTunes data.
- Added the ability to String-Transform all of a file's metadata at once (context menu & edit menu)
- Added the ability to batch-copy read-only attributes
- Added the ability to batch-copy some attributes' “raw” value (offered when pressing the option-key)
- New 'Edit in List / View in List (alternate)' entries in the tag context menus of the sidebar
Fixes
- Added missing translations
- Fixed a bug which would cause clearing tags to fail
- Improved loading time for large amounts of files
- All visible columns are shown in the column customization menu, for faster de-selection
Fixes
- Fixed a crash when setting the “Comment” ID3 Tag on RIFF (wav/aiff)
Fixes
- Fixed ID3v2 “Comment” Tag implementation
- Removed a extraneous separator in the list's context menu, on systems before macOS 10.11
- Ensured the sidebar's width stays fixed at 250px, on systems before macOS 10.11
Fixes
- Added the ability to navigate the selection when previewing artworks, using the up/down arrow keys.
- Fixed quicklook panel not being refreshed on selection change (audio preview).
- Restored the “Services” Menu.
Fixes
- Column-based batch editing operations were moved to their own submenu
- Editing operations affecting all tags have been restored to the file's list context menu
- Fixed 'Create Directories' silently failing.
- Fixed multiple retro-compatibility issues causing crashes on macOS 10.8 & 10.9.
- Fixed copying of single values as CSV mistakenly adding an extra newline.
- Fixed autocomplete not preserving the typed-in typecase.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue when using 'Strip Tags' on MP4 Files.
This is a bug fix release. Notable changes include fixing text-finder related crashes, and sluggishness when opening FLAC files. Enjoy! — Ben
What's New?
- Updated Taglib to
v1.11.1
- Added the ability to batch-copy filenames without extensions
Fixes
- Fixed command ⌘⌫ erroneously calling "Move to trash", when editing text
- The Add to iTunes operation now skips unsupported file formats, and reports for errors
- Fixed sluggishness when opening FLAC files
- Fixed text-finder crashing on macOS Sierra
- Fixed text-finder issues on previous system versions
- Fixed handling of MP4 Metadata track/disc frames
- Fixed various error-resolving issues when moving files to an existing location
Fixes
- Nicer CSV copying (single value case)
- Brung back ⌥-Click to edit pattern, as a user preference
- Relative date formatting
- Fixed a drawing glitch when resizing header cells
- Fixed a critical issue regarding “Adjust Artworks”
- Removed “Preserve Modification Date” preference, as it fought against system-defined behavior
What's New?
- Updated Taglib tag engine to
v1.11
- Added support for
OGG Opus files and WAV INFO metadata
- There is now a wider range of tags available to edit
- Define which groups of tags to display in the sidebar thanks to display configurations
- Batch cut, copy, paste operations
- New popovers help deal with editing dates, multiline text, BPM (tap), and the length tag
Fixes
- The editor can now be resized, and collapsed
- Spreadsheet style editing in the tableview
- New
FLAC artwork storage preference (FLAC Pic, Vorbis Pic, or both)
- Fixed drawing of tokens appearing clipped, on macOS Sierra
- Fixed a rare unicode issue in “convert filename to tags” due to combining character sequences
What's New?
- Autocomplete artists, composers, and genres using iTunes Library data
- Meta now asks for removal of tracks from the iTunes library when files are deleted
- Added escape tokens (wildcard, char, digits…) to filter out unwanted data in “Convert to Tags”
- Zero-Padding now accounts for the “total” track/disc value (ie. 005/100)
- New option to preserve file modification dates
- Re-order tracks manually via drag & drop
- New “Open With” menu
Fixes
- Fixed the progress window not being dismissed when the app is hidden or minimized
- Fixed a potential crash when using the text finder (Find/Replace)
- Fixed the conversion pattern selection not being correctly persisted to the user defaults
What's New?
- New Toolbar Items
- Added cancellable progress reporting for “Adjust Artworks” operations.
- Nicer Table header contrast & font weight.
- Better recessed indicator drawing on El Capitan.
Fixes
- Fixed a scenario where artwork view gets stuck in “Loading…” state.
- Fixed a potential crash when dismissing the “Adjust Artworks” sheet.
- Fixed bad window contour/shadow for “Adjust Artworks”.
- Fixed redundant Menu Separator when running OSX 10.8.
- Fixed a potential hang upon launch.
What's New?
- Better error reporting when importing faulty audio files.
- Better conversion previews/examples.
- Enabled QuickLook when multiple audio files are selected.
- Added a selector to choose when to enable image reprocessing (Artwork Preferences)
- Optimized Artwork Reloading for slow Disk I/O (NAS, very large artwork, etc…)
- Better progress reporting, with cancellation (move files, set artwork)
Fixes
- Fixed ID3's implementation of
-setComments:
- Increased the track numbering maximum value to 9999
- Smaller Fixes & Enhancements for OSX El Capitan
What's New?
- Redesigned main window that now fully embraces Yosemite's UI.
- Redesigned conversion windows, with previews.
- New conversion option: Create Directories.
- New 'Adjust Artworks' command that allows for batch editing multiple artworks.
- Cancellable Progress Reporting when opening a large amount of files, or when stripping tags.
Fixes
- Inputting '0' in numeric typed tags now deletes the value.