Release Notes
The release notes describe new features and notable changes. Please have a look at the
Changelog for a complete list.
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Mp3tag v3.08
Usability improvements for Tag Panel
Maybe it also happened to you: you started filling the fields on the Tag Panel
and only later noticed that no file was selected yet. Selecting one file then
replaced what was entered with what was read from the selected file — not ideal
and sometimes a reason for frustration. This is a thing of the past, because the
fields on the Tag Panel are now only enabled if at least one file is selected.
Usability improvements regarding unsaved changes
Mp3tag provides means to automatically save any changes when the selection changes
(it can be enabled in the options at Tools → Options → Tags). But not
everybody wants that and if the option is disabled, any unsaved changes were
discarded on selection change. This is also not happening anymore: I’ve added a
confirmation question if the Tag Panel contains unsaved changes and auto-saving
is not enabled.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.07
Support for editing cover art for Matroska MKA/MKV
This took some time and Mp3tag is finally able to also edit (and not only display) cover art
for Matroska MKA/MKV files. Matroska is one of the most complex tagging specs I've worked with,
so I'm especially happy that editing image attachments to the container is now possible.
Support for WebP image format
The WebP image format is by no means standard
at this point. The recommended formats for embedded cover art are still JPG and PNG. However, many
online sources and people are using this modern image format and I wanted to at least give the option
with Mp3tag. You can even use Mp3tag to convert from WebP to JPG or PNG. A modern and recommended
player with WebP support is foobar2000.
Support for iTunes and Apple Music related MP4 fields
I've extended the list of supported MP4 metadata fields that are related to iTunes and Apple Music:
- ITUNESALBUMID (
plID
)
- ITUNESARTISTID (
atID
)
- ITUNESCOMPOSERID (
cmID
)
- ITUNESCOUNTRYID (
sfID
)
- ITUNESGENREID (
geID
)
- XID (
xid
)
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.06
Retry for Tag Sources
If no results are returned for a certain search at Tag Sources, it's now possible to retry and having the previous
query already filled in. No more entering the same information twice (or trice!).
I've also added the option to retry for error case, e.g., when the internet connection of the servers are flaky.
Option to disable auto-sizing of columns in Tag Source results
So far, the column width for Tag Sources results has been decided based on the content that was returned from the query.
While it always displays the full content, it also means that some columns are outside the dialog width and scrolling
is needed. You can now disable the auto-sizing of column via the context menu of the column header.
Undo via Ctrl+Z in Tag Panel fields
This was quite some time in the making (I've received the first bug report on that back in Jan 2014). You can now
undo text entry in Tag Panel fields without undoing the last tag-write or rename operation.
Actions and Tag Sources available via context menu
The file list context menu now also has the Actions and Tag Sources available via submenus. Sometimes it's just faster to
trigger them from the context menu.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.05
Action to set cover properties
This version adds a new action type Set cover properties which allows for editing the cover description
and the cover type (front, back, ...) via Quick Actions or from within action groups.
Adjust cover for varying covers
So far, adjusting covers in size and image type directly from the cover window was only possible if
all selected files had the same embedded cover art. This version adds support for directly adjusting
covers for files with different covers.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.04
Performance improvements
This version adds various improvements to make reading MP3 and MP4 files (especially MP4s with chapters) even more performant.
Also, the process of selecting large amounts of files (all file formats) is more snappy with this new version.
Album artists from MusicBrainz
This version adds support for importing album artist information from MusicBrainz.
MusicBrainz also has become my favorite tag source in Mp3tag over time.
It has all the information I need, usually with great accuracy and excellent data quality.
Randomize sorting
If you ever wanted to create a playlist with tracks in randomized order, you've either
used Mp3tag's hidden feature to randomize the file list or resorted to manual ordering. This
feature is not hidden anymore but available now via "View > Sort By > Randomize".
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.03
Improvements for Action Groups
This version adds various improvements for the action groups dialog. You can now select, enable, and
move multiple action groups at once and have quick means for working with action groups via various
newly added keyboard shortcuts. Furthermore, I've added a new indicator that shows how many action groups
are currently enabled and added support for sorting of action groups.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.02
Support for alternative freedb servers
The current operator of the public freedb servers announced to stop its services as of March 31, 2020.
I've now added alternative freedb servers to Mp3tag, so that the freedb feature should be working again.
Furthermore, I've added support for the web-based search of gnudb.org.
If you're unsure about data quality from freedb or can't find newest using one of the alternative servers,
I can only recommend to use MusicBrainz. It's a high-quality alternative to freedb and is officially supported by Mp3tag.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.01
Support for the WebM file format
This new version adds support for the WebM file format (file extension *.webm), a container
format that is mainly used for video in the context of the web.
Feature "Adjust cover" to resize cover art
I've added the feature "Adjust cover", which I've introduced as action with the previous release,
to the right-click context-menu of the cover art window.
Availability of freedb servers
The current operator of the public freedb servers announced to stop its services as of March 31, 2020.
I've decided to not remove the freedb feature from Mp3tag for now, because it could be that alternative
servers emerge from this situation.
If not, I can only recommend to use MusicBrainz. It's a high-quality alternative to freedb and is officially
supported by Mp3tag.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v3.00
Action "Adjust cover" to resize cover art
Many hardware players have certain limitations on the size of cover art and then it's
sometimes just nice to scale down this 10000x10000 cover to a reasonable size. You can
also use this action type to convert from JPEG to PNG or vice versa. It's quite handy
and I hope it improves your workflow.
MusicBrainz tag sources with multiple search criteria
The MusicBrainz tag source now also offers two distinct search fields for album and artist and
adds support for MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASEGROUPID
along the way.
Accessibility related improvements
I've reworked most of the menu-drawing code in high-contrast modes so that it is now more in
line with the native menus that the various supported versions of Windows are providing. Also,
some buttons and menus were not accessible to screen readers ‐ if you're noticing something
like that, please let me know.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.99
Updated MusicBrainz tag sources
MusicBrainz updated their server to a new search infrastructure and with that,
some minor changes to the MusicBrainz tag sources were necessary.
Autumn Maintenance
This version also fixes a variety of issues which were reported during the past weeks.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.98
Discogs tag sources with multiple search criteria
The existing album-only search for Discogs often produced too many results or results that were not totally relevant for the
current search. This is why many users wished for multiple search criteria for metadata-lookup from Discogs. The current version adds
new tag sources for Discogs and Discogs Cover Art, namely:
- Search by Artist + Album
- Search by Artist + Title
- Search by Artist + Year
Improvements for Web Sources Framework
The Web Sources Framework now supports up to three different search criteria and
has support for reusing tag sources to reduce code duplication.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.97
Fixes regarding pasting cover art from clipboard
The previous version had an issue where pasting cover art was not possible anymore
and I got many emails regarding this regression. I've decided to pull a hotfix release
to make sure that as many people as possible are using the fixed version.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.96
Support for Opus with *.ogg file extension
So far, tagging Opus files required a *.opus file extension in Mp3tag. However,
many applications are simply using Opus with the *.ogg file extension, which is perfectly valid. With this release, Mp3tag
detects Opus for files with the *.ogg file extension — so no more renaming for you.
Improvements when copying cover art via clipboard
Mp3tag now also copies the original data next to an independent DIB format when copying cover art via the Windows clipboard.
Previously, the independent DIB was re-encoded to a maximum quality JPEG, which was not the best option when the image was
stored as, e.g., a PNG. Now, if you paste the cover to another file, the original format and data is used.
Further changes
I've also fixed many issues and performed many changes here and there.
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.95
Toggling of file-list columns
You can now toggle file list columns via the context menu on the column header.
This way it's easy to enable and disable columns you only need in certain conditions.
It's a long-requested feature and I'm already using it quite often.
Nested action menus
If you're one of the aficionados of Mp3tag's action feature,
you can now create nested action menus by using the # character
in the action group name.
Support for subtracks at Discogs
The Discogs tag source now supports subtracks. I think it's great and it's
probably most welcomed by people who have lots of classical music to tag.
Further changes
I've also fixed many issues and performed many changes here and there.
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.94
Support for discnumbers at auto-numbering wizard.
The auto-numbering wizard can now, optionally, also assign discnumbers to
the selected files. New discs start when the directory changes.
History for Replace and Regexp actions
The actions 'Replace' and 'Replace with regular expression' now
have a history drop-down that remember the previous inputs.
Remember inputs for last used Replace or Regexp quick actions
The quick actions 'Replace' and 'Replace with regular expression' now
remember the last used inputs.
UI improvements at Tag Sources dialog
The tag sources dialog now has a splitter between the lists for results and files, which allows for resizing the lists individually without resizing the whole dialog.
Also, the selection from the files list to results list is now synchronized.
Option to disable showing release notes on update
If you prefer to not have these notes shown when you update to a new version, you can
disable displaying release notes for new versions at "Options > Updates".
Further changes
I've also fixed many issues and performed many changes here and there.
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.93
Hotfixes regarding MP4 tagging
That was quick! v2.92 had some issues wrt. MP4 tagging and I've decided to pull a hotfix release
to make sure that as many people as possible are using the fixed version.
Mp3tag v2.92
Tag-Panel field size Smaller
The Tag Panel continues to get love and it now has a new field size Smaller —
which is smaller than Small. It’s perfect for track- and disc numbers and can be nicely
combined with another Smaller and one Medium-sized field to fill up one row and
use the available space in the most efficient way.
Configurable height of multiline fields on Tag-Panel
Many users who are using multiline fields on the Tag Panel (e.g., for displaying UNSYNCEDLYRICS)
were asking for a way to configure the height of those fields. It's now possible to decide on
the number of rows that are occupied by a multiline field (one row is the combination of
label and input of a normal-sized field).
Advanced configuration option to toggle listing chapters as separate files
This new option gives the ability to decide of chapters are listed as separate files
or are simply not listed.
It's especially helpful if you're into editing video files (MP4 or Matroska) and
always wanted to edit the global tags of a file instead of the titles of the
individual chapters.
The option is located at "Options > Tags > Advanced" and is disabled by default.
Information fields for subsongs
Especially if the option to list chapter as separate files is disabled, it can be
difficult to identify which files actually have chapters. I've added two new information
fields to identify those files, %_subsong_count%
provides the number of
subsongs in a file and %_subsong%
contains the subsong index.
Information fields for video dimensions
I have the impression that more and more users are also handling their video library
with Mp3tag. This new version also has two new information fields for video dimensions,
namely %_video_width%
and %_video_height%
for Matroska files
(and MP4 video as well).
Further changes
I've also fixed many issues and performed many changes here and there.
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.91
Copying of individual tag fields
A long-awaited feature I've implemented is the ability to copy individual fields via the extended
tag dialog at Alt+T. Just select the relevant fields you want to copy, right-click and choose the
appropriate entry from the popup menu.
Default values for Tag-Panel fields
Tag-Panel fields have their default values back. Just better :)
You can now configure a default value that is set whenever you select multiple files directly via the field
configuration at Options > Tag Panel. Double-click on the desired field
and choose the default value.
Further changes
I've also fixed many issues and performed many changes here and there.
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.90a
Updated Code-Signing Certificate
I've updated the code-signing certificate that is used to digitally sign and verify the origin and integrity of
Mp3tag's installer and executable.
Microsoft Store version
I've released Mp3tag to the Microsoft Store. It's still available for free and if you prefer getting your software
from there you can give it a go.
Further changes
I've also fixed many issues with this release.
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.89
Improved Tag Panel
I've made the following improvements to the Tag Panel:
- many layout changes when displayed horizontally,
- all fields are now configurable (including default fields),
- added context menu to customize fields,
- added option to specify size when adding fields (normal, smaller, small, multiline),
- added dedicated separator field (_SEPARATOR) to allow for manual column breaks,
- added option to enable/disable fields, and
- added loading and saving of Tag Panel configurations.
Support for long file paths
Mp3tag now supports file paths longer than 260 characters, so also very wordy titles
can be renamed properly.
Updated Discogs and MusicBrainz tag sources
Discogs changed their servers to require connections via TLS 1.2 (something very secure, if this sounds cryptic to you).
I've added support for TLS 1.2 for Windows 7 and 8 (it's used by default starting from Windows 8.1). Unfortunately,
TLS 1.2 is not available on Windows XP and Vista, so Discogs stops working on these systems.
MusicBrainz updated their server to a new search infrastructure and with that,
some minor changes to the MusicBrainz tag sources were necessary.
Updated MusicBrainz identifier mapping
I've added various internal mappings so that fields for MusicBrainz identifiers are now mapped to the correct
fields (e.g., MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID is mapped to 'MusicBrainz Album Id').
Option to keep moved files in file list
With Mp3tag v2.87, I've implemented the unpopular change that moved files are always kept in the file list and can
be manually removed. I've now made this behavior optional so that you can decide depending on your preferences.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.88
Going Deep
I've taken a deep dive in the bug reports section of the forums and fixed many, many long-lasting and not so old
issues with this release.
Layout and other UI changes
I've reworked the layout of the Tag Panel in horizontal mode and changed Mp3tag to use a modern, default font in the main
window. This one makes Mp3tag look more beautiful on modern Windows systems. This also implies, that any system-wide font
changes are also visible in Mp3tag now.
Addressing memory above 2GB on 64 bit systems
This one is huge for people with huge libraries. Mp3tag can now allocate up to 4GB of your RAM.
That's impressively much.
Displaying cover art dimensions in Mp3tag's file view
You can now use %_cover_width% and %_cover_height% for width and height of the first embedded cover art.
It's also available in the filter, in the converters and everywhere else in Mp3tag.
Further changes
For a complete overview of all changes, please see the Changelog.
Mp3tag v2.87
Spring Maintenance
I've spent the last two months hunting bugs and issues and fixed many of them
with the current release. Given the list of fixed issues, it feels like
this is the most stable release of Mp3tag ever :)
MusicBrainz v2
The MusicBrainz v1 web service will be closed in a few months, so I've added a new
official MusicBrainz Tag Source based on v2 of the MusicBrainz web service with this release.
Option to disable auto-filtering
The filter helper menu now has an option to enable/disable auto-applying the filter. This can be
helpful if you're working with large libraries and find the auto-filtering to disturb your workflow.
LAME MP3 encoder version
I've rewritten the code to analyze MP3s with this version (it was sooooo old) and added detection
of LAME encoder versions while I was at it. You can access it via the %_tool% information field, if
this is something of interest to you.
Mapping of Matroska tag fields
I've reworked the tag fields mapping for Matroska and documented the process at the overview page for
Tag field mappings. If you're tagging Matroska files, this is for you.
Further changes
It's quite a list for this version.
You can get a complete overview via the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.86
Library to permanently store metadata
Normally, Mp3tag reads metadata from files when loading files, directories or playlists and stores the data in memory. Then,
when you close Mp3tag, the data once read from the files is discarded and must be read again the next time you're working with
those files in Mp3tag.
This can become both time consuming and memory intensive, especially when dealing with large amounts of files. If you enable the
Library in Mp3tag (see Options > Library), metadata is first read from the files and then
stored in a database that resides in Mp3tag's configuration folder.
On subsequent reads of the file, the metadata is read directly from the database and updated iff the file's modification timestamp
has been changed. In addition to that, cover art or other binary data is not kept in memory but is stored in the database, which
can reduce the amount of memory that is consumed by Mp3tag significantly.
This is a quite extensive change and required to rewrite huge parts of Mp3tag base layers. It's my hope that it improves performance and
serves as a basis for interesting future improvements.
Further changes
This version also fixes many issues — some reported recently, some were a little bit older.
You can get a complete overview via the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.85
Support for Matroska (MKA/MKV)
With the recent support for multi-track files, it was about time to add support for
the Matroska container format. Similar to MP4, Matroska can contain both audio and
video tracks. This means, that you now have another option to tag your video collection
with Mp3tag. Mp3tag currently displays the default (or forced) audio track and all
included chapters. I'm curious about your experience, so if you're going to use Matroska
with Mp3tag please let me know what you think.
Extended list of default genres
I've extended the list of default genres to include all extensions made by Winamp (ID3v1
genres 148 to 191) which were included by several other programs. It now includes genres
like Audiobook and IDM which I find quite nice. If you're using only a small set of genres,
you can use 'Options > Genres' to add your own.
Further changes
This version also fixes many issues — some reported recently, some were a little bit older.
You can get a complete overview via the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.84
Support for Nero-style MP4 chapters
MP4 is a container format — which basically means that you can put loads of stuff into it.
With Nero-style tags, it’s even possible to have one file consisting of multiple sub-tracks.
The Nero chapter tags describe the position and the sub-track specific tags. With this new
version, Mp3tag displays individual sub-tracks of such files and also allows for editing
of those individual chapter tags. Tags fields with the same contents across all sub-tracks
are used as global file tags when writing changes.
Cover-only Tag Sources to import album-art from Discogs
Many of you wrote me and wished for a cover-only alternative to the now discontinued Amazon
Tag Sources. Here you go :) With this new version, Mp3tag comes with two cover-only Tag Sources
to import cover art from Discogs.
Further changes
This version fixes many, many issues — some reported recently, some were a little bit older.
You can get a complete overview of how busy I've been via the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.83
Support for querying Discogs via Release ID
Sometimes, searching by album or artist name simply doesn't give the correct results. This version
adds a new tag source to directly search by Discogs Release ID. This means, that you can directly
jump to the correct result when importing tags from Discogs.com.
Import from Amazon no longer available
Unfortunately, Amazon has closed my associate account so that importing tags via Amazon is no longer
possible. A highly recommended alternative tag source is Discogs, which offers high-quality metadata
and cover art.
Support for removing Nero-style tags from MP4 files
Nero-style tags are one possible reason why tags cannot be saved to MP4 files. This version
adds basic detection of those tags and reporting via %_tag% if present. Furthermore, you can now remove
Nero-style chapter information from MP4 files via context-menu in the file list.
Support for restricting cover export to certain cover types
The Mp3tag action to export cover-art to files now has a option to restrict the covers to be exported to
a certain cover type. This means, that you can now export, e.g., all the front covers of your files in one go.
Improvements at reading and writing cue sheets
It's now possible to read cue sheets that don't start with Track 1 and many other things. If you're into working
with cue sheets, you'll probably like the changes in this release.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.82
Spring Maintenance
This version is a spring-cleaning maintenance release and fixes issues which were reported during the past weeks.
Please see the history of changes for a complete list.
Mp3tag v2.81
Support for Portable Installation and Admin-Elevation
A long-requested feature of many users was a portable installation of Mp3tag, i.e., a installation
that installs in one directory and also stores its configuration settings in this directory. This
is now possible. And if you choose the standard installation, Mp3tag automatically elevates the
process to the necessary user rights (after asking you, of course).
Support for iTunes Grouping Field
As mentioned in the release notes of Mp3tag v2.80, iTunes was writing the grouping information
to its internal database only. With an updated version of iTunes, this information is now written
to a new iTunes-specific ID3v2 field which is available in Mp3tag via the field name GROUPING.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.80
Support for iTunes tag fields for classical music
In October, iTunes introduced new tag fields for better tagging of classical music. Those fields include
work name, movement name, number and total count and are mapped in Mp3tag to these new field names:
- MOVEMENTNAME — Movement name
- MOVEMENT — Movement number
- MOVEMENTTOTAL — Movement count
- WORK — Work name
- SHOWMOVEMENT — Flag to trigger showing of classical fields instead of normal title in iTunes (1 = yes)
While the implementation of these fields in iTunes is not yet realized completely consistent, Mp3tag supports all
fields for MP4 tags. For MP3 files, iTunes currently writes the work name to the CONTENTGROUP field (while what's
added at "Grouping" is only stored in iTunes' internal database). The same applies to the flag SHOWMOVEMENT which
is also stored in iTunes' internal database and not in the file itself. There are already several bug reports for
that reported to Apple and I expect a consistent implementation with the next release of iTunes.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.78
Support for AIF / AIFF audio format (*.aif, *.aifc, *.aiff)
The main feature of v2.78 is full support for the AIF / AIFF audio format. This includes support for ID3v2 tags
(including user-defined fields and cover art) as dedicated RIFF chunks.
The new version reads, writes and removes those tags and – as usual – also reports meaningful technical
information about the file.
Support for iTunes MP4 owner information
This version adds support for the ITUNESOWNER field, which shows the owner of an MP4 file which has been bought via the iTunes Store. Besides
ITUNESACCOUNT, this enables you to make sure that all files are from your own music library. Please note that removing those fields doesn't remove
the (hidden) buyer information from the file.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.76
Support for WAV audio format (*.wav)
The main feature of v2.76 is full support for the WAV audio format. This includes support for RIFF INFO tags (which are
surprisingly limited) and writing ID3v2 tags (including user-defined fields and cover art) as dedicated RIFF chunks.
The new version reads, writes and removes those tags and – as usual – also reports meaningful technical
information about the file.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.74
Support for HTTPS in Web Sources Framework
Since more an more APIs are changing their access methods to require authentication or to be HTTPS-only, this version
adds support for secure connections to web sources via HTTPS. This is a rather huge change since the complete HTTP connection
part has been replaced in the course of this update.
Discogs access via HTTPS
As a prominent example of the changes described above, Discogs announced to be available via HTTPS only starting from March 14.
The official Discogs web source of Mp3tag has been updated to use HTTPS with this update. In the background, I've already changed
the Mp3tag Discogs image cache that is used to provide Discogs images to Mp3tag users to use HTTPS as well.
Support for Podcast Keywords
Mp3tag becomes more and more popular in the podcast community and already supports a variety of podcast-related tag fields
(e.g., podcast category, podcast description, podcast ID and podcast URL). This version adds support for podcast keywords via the
PODCASTKEYWORDS field for ID3v2 and MP4 tags.
Compatibility Improvements for ID3v2 Comments
When it comes to ID3v2 comments, iTunes and Windows Media Player seem not to like each other very much. While iTunes requires the
ID3v2 comment language to be set to 'eng' (English), Windows Media Player and Windows Explorer need the comment language set to
the language of the Windows version that is running. Otherwise, the comments are simply not shown in these applications. In the
past Mp3tag offered a quite tedious via editing the language file to circumvent these compatibility issue. With this version, the
ID3v2 comment language can be set via a configuration dialog which is available via 'Options > Tags > Advanced' and will
preserved also when installing new versions of Mp3tag. So no more fiddling in the language files for you.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.73
Automatically Select Files
In the past, many users have wished for an option to automatically select files that have been added to Mp3tag's file list.
With this version, I've added a new configuration option to 'Options > General' that allows for automatically selecting files.
When this option is enabled, files that are loaded when Mp3tag started or are added via drag'n'drop or are added via the right-click
option in Windows Explorer are selected automatically.
Selecting All Files via Toolbar
Some users prefer working via keyboard shortcuts, others are effectively using the mouse. To select all files, the most efficient way
was to use the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut. This might change now, especially for the mouse users amongst you, because the current version
now features a new toolbar button for selecting all files in Mp3tag's file list.
File Selection when Filtering Files
Till now, the file selection was not preserved when switching from a filter result to the complete file list via F3
or 'View > Filter...'. This had the significant drawback, that files which were identified using the filter and selected
in the filtered file list, were not seen in context of the complete file list anymore once the filter has been reset. With
this version, the file selection is preserved when disabling the filter.
New Bit-Depth Information Field
Some audio formats offer encoding in different bit depths. This information is now available using the %_bitspersample% information
field for audio formats that support different bit depths.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.72
Support for Windows 10
Mp3tag now officially supports Windows 10. It worked quite smoothly already when Windows 10 was released, but I adjusted minor things here and there.
If you find any quirk or think you've found a bug please let me know.
Updated Code-Signing Certificate
To verify the integrity and the origin of the Mp3tag setup and Mp3tag program file, I've updated the code-signing certificate.
Mp3tag v2.71
Summer Maintenance
This version is a summer maintenance release and fixes issues which were reported during the past weeks.
Please see the history of changes for a complete list.
Mp3tag v2.70
DPI Awareness and High DPI Support
To be honest, when I first saw a screenshot of Mp3tag on a high-resolution 4K screen I had to laugh: the toolbar
icons were ridiculously small and also other screen elements were drawn too small — while the app was
still usable in itself. At that point I didn't knew yet, what it takes to make an app fully DPI aware.
Over the last month I worked on making Mp3tag more DPI aware and touched all the different code parts of drawing
and moving user-interface elements. It was quite a ride and it took me to places in Mp3tag's code base which I
hadn't visited for a long time.
Furthermore, I've redrawn the toolbar icons in 32x32 and 24x24 sizes. I'm not
an icon designer so it took me some time to get it done. I did a lot of experiments (even with flat black and white
icons) but ended up with a set which sticks very much to the original icons which you (— and I) are already
familiar with. But some icons changed their face or got a new finishing and I hope you like it.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.68
Discogs Image Caching — Reloaded
Discogs made a breaking API change on 2015-02-20 so that we had to update our
Discogs image caching server and the way Mp3tag signs the image requests.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.66
Winter Maintenance
This version is mainly a maintenance release which comes with many improvements and fixes various issues that have been reported over the last couple of weeks.
Please see the
history of changes for a complete list.
Mp3tag v2.65
Discogs Image Caching
Since Discogs implemented rate-limiting on images requests through their API, users of
the Discogs Web Source experienced quite often, that no images were provided by the web
source—1000 request per day for all users of Mp3tag is simply not enough.
Over the last weeks, we've implemented a Discogs image cache on the Mp3tag servers which
is now asked for images before the actual Discogs servers. This first reduces load on the
Discogs servers, but also increases the chance that more and more images are served to you.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.64
Discogs API changed to JSON
Yet another Discogs-related change, you might be thinking—at least we did, when
we read the corresponding announcement on their API development forums :-)
This change removed the XML format from the API and changed the API format to JSON, which resulted in
the official Discogs Tag Source not working anymore for you.
With this release, we have developed a new official Discogs Tag Source based on the new JSON format.
This new format also is more robust w.r.t. changes in the API. If you notice any quirks, releases that
cannot be tagged or other things, please let us know.
JSON-related functions for Web Sources Framework
We've extended the
Web Sources Framework by JSON-related functions that enable the development of faster,
more reliable, and easier to maintain Tag Sources. We're looking forward to any community-based development
in this area!
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.62
Discogs API access changed to OAuth
Starting at August 15, 2014 Discogs restricts access to their API to authentication
using OAuth. As a user of the Discogs Tag Source you need to have an account on the
Discogs web site. If you don't have a user account yet, you can create a free account
on the discogs web site via
https://www.discogs.com/users/create
When you use any of the Discogs Tag Sources from Mp3tag, Mp3tag will ask you to
authorize access to your Discogs profile. You'll then have to authorize the Mp3tag application
on your Discogs profile and enter the authorization code when Mp3tag is asking you to do so.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.61
Summer Maintenance
With this version we're doing some summer maintenance and fix issues which were
reported during the past weeks.
Please see the
history of changes for a complete list.
Mp3tag v2.60
Update of Discogs Tag Source
Discogs updated their
API which resulted in release information
not being retrieved while using the discogs tag source. The access to the
Discogs API has been fixed with this release.
Internal Restructuring
While this is not a feature that is visible to the user, it's worth mentioning that
over the last weeks we did some major refactoring of Mp3tag's code base by changing
to use standard container libraries and algorithms.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months
as denoted in the
history of changes.
Mp3tag v2.59
Support for Direct Stream Digital (DSF)
With this version Mp3tag supports
Direct Stream Digital (DSF)
files with ID3v2 tags.
Further changes
Furthermore, this version fixes some issues which were reported during the last months,
improves some internal parts and makes use of the taskbar progress feature which was
introduced with Windows 7.
Mp3tag v2.58
Improved performance when reading MP4 files
Mp3tag now reads MP4 files faster than before which should be significant
on large collections (many files) or collections including MP4 video (large files).
Improved compatibility of YEAR in ID3v2.3
With Mp3tag v2.53 released almost one year ago we decided to combine
the release year (ID3v2.3 frame TYER, displayed as YEAR) and release
date (ID3v2.3 frame TDAT, displayed as DATE) in YEAR and display it
as YYYY-MM-DD. The intention was to improve compatibility with other
applications and the ID3v2 standard.
Since then we've received numerous support requests both on the
Mp3tag Forums and via email from
users who are unsatisfied with that change. Either because they use a
different formatting of date values, use some value denoting a specific
time frame (e.g., the 80s) or simply wanted to preserve values that
were not fitting in the new date formatting scheme.
With Mp3tag v2.58 we revert this change to the previous behavior.
Mp3tag v2.55
Support for IETF Opus
Mp3tag now supports the IETF Opus codec. More information can be found on the
official website
and on
Wikipedia.
Mp3tag v2.54
Support for Windows 8
Mp3tag now officially supports Windows 8 operating system. If you find any quirk or
think you've found a bug please let us know at
support@mp3tag.de.
Mp3tag v2.53
Improved support for Drag & Drop of cover art
Mp3tag now uses a different method for drag & drop of cover art
which does not require re-encoding the cover image again but instead
uses the original image whenever possible. In addition, support for
drag & drop of cover art from Google Chrome has been added.
Improved compatibility of YEAR in ID3v2.3
The release year (ID3v2.3 frame TYER, displayed as YEAR) and release
date (ID3v2.3 frame TDAT, displayed as DATE) are now combined in YEAR
and displayed as YYYY-MM-DD. This improves compatibility with other
applications (e.g., foobar2000) and provides a consistent view with
all revisions of the ID3v2 specification.
Mp3tag v2.52
Option to specify cover art directory
With this option located at 'Options > Directories' you can specify a default directory
that is displayed when adding cover art. Besides fully-qualified path names, you
can provide relative path names and use placeholders. If no default directory is specified
or the directory cannot be opened, Mp3tag opens the directory of the first selected file
iff it contains cover art or the current working directory in all other cases.
Mp3tag v2.50
Converter Tag — Tag
This converter formats tag fields by other fields content, which means that
you can use it to copy tags from one field to another or to combine contents
of multiple different tag fields in one tag field. As already known from the
other
converters, you can use
placeholders for any tag field and
scripting functions within the format string
to format the content of the specified tag field.
Furthermore, the format string is evaluated while typing and you can verify the
results using the built-in preview.
Unicode Playlists in UTF-8 format
You can now save playlists in Unicode format encoded as UTF-8 if you use *.m3u8
as file extension. This can be useful if file names contain special characters.
Applications which support UTF-8 encoded playlists are, e.g., Apple iTunes and
foobar2000.
Discogs API 2.0
Discogs.com released a completely redesigned API for accessing data from their
website based on the popular JSON format. Mp3tag's web source framework and the
corresponding discogs web source have been updated to this new format.
Mp3tag v2.49
Support for unknown MP4 tags
Previous to this version, MP4 tags that were unknown to Mp3tag were deleted
from the files, which was an issue for some users. With this version, Mp3tag
keeps those unknown MP4 tags (also called atoms).
Support for wildcards at cover import from file
The actions
Import cover from file and
Import text file
now support wildcards * (matches zero to many characters) and ? (matches exactly one character).
This should ease cover import from randomly named files significantly.
Updated Web Sources
The MusicBrainz and discogs Web Sources are now both based on the corresponding web service API
which makes them more robust to changes on the respective web sites.
Mp3tag v2.48
This version is mainly a maintenance release which updates the Amazon Web Sources
and improves Amazon query handling to decrease the amount of needed requests per query.
As soon as enough users updated to this new release, the request limit enforced by Amazon
should not be an issue anymore.
Mp3tag v2.47
Tag fields renamed
With this release some of the tag fields that are used for format strings, actions,
columns, exports, and filters are renamed to have more accessible and intuitive names.
This also means that all parts of Mp3tag where you have used the old names have to
be updated. We know that this is an invasive change but think that it was a step necessary to
keep it everything maintainable and understandable for new users of the program.
Please see the list below for details on the renamed tag fields:
- BAND to ALBUMARTIST
- ALBUMSORTORDER to ALBUMSORT
- ARTISTSORTORDER to ARTISTSORT
- BANDSORTORDER to ALBUMARTISTSORT
- COMPOSERSORTORDER to COMPOSERSORT
- TITLESORTORDER to TITLESORT
- TVSHOWSORTORDER to TVSHOWSORT
- ITUNESCOMPILATION to COMPILATION
- ITUNESPODCAST to PODCAST
- ITUNESPODCASTCATEGORY to PODCASTCATEGORY
- ITUNESPODCASTDESC to PODCASTDESC
- ITUNESPODCASTID to PODCASTID
- ITUNESPODCASTURL to PODCASTURL
Some of them might be familiar to you, others might be new. If you are wondering
which other fields are available, please see
Names of tag fields
for a complete list.
Actions menu
The actions feature which was well hidden under the converter menu now has a
dedicated top-level menu where all action groups are accessible via menu items.
If you are not familiar with the actions in Mp3tag please have a look at the
Actions help page. It is a powerful feature and
worth looking at.
Amazon
Amazon has limited access to their web service to 2000 requests per hour. That means
that you might get an occassional error 503 when using the Amazon tag source. However,
the limit is reset each hour so you can try again later if it is not working for you.
Mp3tag v2.46
Explorer Shell Extension
The right-click menu extension is now realized by a dedicated Shell extension
which improves opening files and directories via the context menu also for large
amounts of files.
Improved user-defined field mappings
The user-defined mappings for field names introduced in Mp3tag v2.45 now have an
own
help page and were further improved with regard
to mapping multiple field names to one user-defined field name.
Improved Tag Sources dialog
The Tag Sources dialog now also supports reordering of files via drag and drop
allowing to quickly rearrange files according to the titles. Yes, we made it work
with multiple files too :-)
The sorting and selection state of the Tag Sources search results are now also
remembered if you decide to go back and pick another result.
Portable settings
Previous versions of Mp3tag stored toolbar and panel positions in the Windows Registry.
This changed with this release so that Mp3tag now stores all configuration data in its
own configuration files.
Mp3tag v2.45
Improved Filter
The filter now supports
filter expressions where it is now
possible to combine filter criteria and use format strings for filtering. The filter now
also comes with a history, providing easy access to your often-used filter expressions.
User-defined field mappings
Mp3tag now supports user-defined mappings for field names. This is particularly useful
in case you need to make field names consistent across different types of tags.
The feature is available via
'Options > Tags > Mapping' where you can create mappings for a specific tag type
(APEv2, ID3v2, MP4, VorbisComment or WMA), provide a Source name (Mp3tag's internal name)
and a target name (your preferred field name).
Multiline fields for Tag Panel
Are you adding lyrics, artist biographies or other text-intensive information to your songs?
If so, you can now add multiline custom fields to the Tag Panel via
Options > Tag Panel.
Mp3tag v2.43
Automatic Updates
This version comes with support for automatic checking for updates on program startup. You
can decide whether you want to get notified on stable final releases only, or whether you
want the freshest stuff from our compilers (Beta versions). If you don't want Mp3tag to check
for updates you can disable it completely at 'Options > Updates'.
Horizontal Tag Panel
While it was always possible to drag the Tag Panel and dock it above or below
Mp3tag's file list, the input fields are now arranged more effectively. It's also
possible to disable the directory switcher from the Tag Panel.
New Translations
Mp3tag is now also translated to Danish, Hebrew, Vietnamese, and Ukranian language.
Mp3tag v2.34 - Support for cover art / Import from Amazon.com
Support for cover art
With the new release Mp3tag supports embedded cover art for files with ID3v2 tags, TTA- and WMA files.
You can add cover art via the

extended tag dialog at
or
Alt +
T.
Import from Amazon.com
Besides the freedb support, Mp3tag now has the ability to get album information from Amazon.com. Just
choose the small arrow from the right of the Icon

and
select
Amazon.com. You'll get a list of matching items and can choose the
album to import the tags (and cover art).
The Amazon.com import uses Mp3tag's incredible web source framework. There are even more web sources
available at the
Web Source Archive on the
Mp3tag forums.
Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.
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Mp3tag v2.33 - Support for Unicode
Probably the most import change and new feature in this version is the support for Unicode through
the whole program. Mp3tag writes ID3v2 tags in Unicode format (UTF-16) by default now, but there are
still some programs, portables or car radios which have problems with ID3v2 tags stored in Unicode format
(though this is specified within the ID3v2 standard). To use Mp3tag with this programs or devices, simply
enable the option
Always write ISO-8859-1 tags instead of UTF-16 at
Options > Tags > Mpeg. After that, just save the tags again by clicking

or by using the
Ctrl +
S hotkey.
If you have problems displaying tags with characters from other charsets (like Cyrillic) in Mp3tag, the
tags are probably stored in a system codepage instead of Unicode or ISO-8859-1. To convert these tags
from a specific codepage to Unicode, simply create a new action
Convert codepage,
select the appropriate tag field(s) and choose the codepage from the drop-down list.
Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.
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Mp3tag v2.27 - New syntax for scripting functions
The last versions had major problems with the backslash and the double quotes characters
within scripting functions so we had to reimplement the part which is responsible for
evaluating the built in functions.
The names of the functions did not change - you don't have to learn new function names
or placeholder names.
What has changed?
- There is no need to put parameters of function in double quotes anymore.
- There is no need to leave the $ character from nested function calls.
- There are (hopefully) no problems with backslashes and double quotes anymore.
- The scripting functions $meta and $join are obsolete now.
Are there any special characters with specific functionality/limitations?
[ ... ]
Displays contents of brackets only if at least one of fields referenced inside has been found.
'
Outputs raw text without parsing. This will output the contained string and ignore all reserved characters (%,$,[,]) in it.
$%[]
You have to put the single quote around these reserved characters if you want to use them unparsed.
'
You have to put the single quote before this reserved character if you want to output a singe quote.
Examples for conversion
$num("%track%", 2)
is now
$num(%track%,2)
file://$replace("%_folderpath%","\","/")
is now
file://$replace(%_folderpath%,\,/)
%_tag_read% [%_tag%]
is now
%_tag_read% '['%_tag%']'
Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.
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