Updates
Meta is regularly updated to ensure smooth operation on the latest version of macOS. See the following release notes for details.
Fixes
- Fixed a possible crash scenario, when focus leaves the filter
- Fixed a localization typo (Play)
- Reverted Find Tags Keyboard binding to ⌘⇧F , by popular demand
- Moved Artwork Submenu, to Tags Menu
This release includes a number of changes and improvements.
What's New?
- Updated Meta's tag-engine Taglib, to
v2.2.1
- Implemented Search Results Filtering
- Implemented a Skip Empty Components option in Create Directories, which ignores path components that contain tokens with missing metadata
- Added a Play menu item, under the File menu, with key binding: ⌘P
- Added a recovery option for when the preferred music player is undefined
What's Changed?
- In case of filename collision when moving files, the Skip option is now shown by default
- The Import tags prompt was removed and merged with the derive tags feature (choose From: CSV Document)
- Updated keyboard bindings
Improvements
- Fixed track selection matching the currently navigated text finder result
- Made the derive tags prompt wider, when choosing to import a CSV document
- Moved automatic CSV pattern guessing to a background thread
What's New?
- Added filters to cover and tag finder
- Added a play button and music player selection preference
- Improved VoiceOver accessibility
What's New?
- Introduced a lag when typing in the filter field, to prevent jitter when browsing large data sets
- The launch directory preference is now ignored when the app is opened from Doppler
- Added a setting to optionally exclude album covers from tag finder
Fixes
- Fixed restoring key status to the main track list when committing editing in the sidebar
- Fixed a bug that prevented the display of file move recovery options (skip, replace, stop)
- Fixed a possible crash scenario, due to key-view loop management
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.