Kid3 - ID3 Tagger

Kid3 - ID3 Tagger

If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio and WavPack files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you are looking for.

Features

With Kid3 you can:

Edit ID3v1.1 tags
Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio and WavPack files
Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together.
Generate tags from filenames
Generate filenames from tags
Rename and create directories from tags
Generate playlist files
Automatically convert upper and lower case and replace strings
Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs and other sources of album data
Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats

Requirements

Kid3 uses Qt, id3lib, libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile, libFLAC++, libFLAC, TagLib, mp4v2, libtunepimp and runs under Linux (KDE or only Qt) and Windows.

Information

English Handbook
Deutsches Handbuch
Screenshot
The Kid3 project page at SourceForge offers for example Subversion access, download of all releases and mailing lists.
The Kid3 page at kde-apps.org offers the possibility to rate Kid3 and to submit comments.
The Kid3 page at freshmeat.net offers the possibility to rate Kid3 and to submit comments.
The Kid3 page at ohloh offers code metrics and the possibility to rate Kid3 and to submit comments.

License

Kid3 is open-source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Download

Sourcecode kid3-1.0.tar.gz
Source RPM kid3-1.0-1.src.rpm
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 binaries (KDE) kid3_1.0-0etch_i386.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 binaries (without KDE dependencies) kid3-qt_1.0-0etch_i386.deb
Ubuntu 7.10 binaries (KDE) kid3_1.0-0gutsy_i386.deb
Ubuntu 7.10 binaries (without KDE dependencies) kid3-qt_1.0-0gutsy_i386.deb
Ubuntu 7.10 binaries (KDE 4) kid3-kde4_1.0-0gutsy_i386.deb
Ubuntu 8.04 binaries (KDE) kid3_1.0-0hardy_i386.deb
Ubuntu 8.04 binaries (without KDE dependencies) kid3-qt_1.0-0hardy_i386.deb
Ubuntu 8.04 binaries (KDE 4) kid3-kde4_1.0-0hardy_i386.deb
Windows binaries kid3-winbin-1.0.zip

Thanks to all those who created the following packages:

Debian Packages kid3 and kid3-qt for lenny (by Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez)
Ubuntu Packages for intrepid (by Ubuntu MOTU Developers)
RPM and Source RPM for Fedora 9 (by Ville Skyttä)
RPMs and Source RPM for openSUSE 10.3, kid3-qt (without KDE) and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (by Donnie S Bhayangkara)
PackMan RPM and Source RPM for openSUSE 10.3 (by Rainer Lay)
RPM for Mandriva 2008.0 and 2008.1 (by http://rpmlinux.org)
Gentoo Package, Browse Program (by Gregorio Guidi)
Package for Arch Linux
Package for Slackware 12.0 (by Ken Zalewski, LinuxPackages)
Port for FreeBSD (by Max Brazhnikov)
Port for NetBSD (by Sergey Svishchev)
Fink source package for Mac OS X (by Jack Fink)

Old Versions

RPM for PCLinuxOS 2007 (by PCLOSusers.com)
Source RPM for ALT Linux (by Egor S. Orlov)

Patches

Patch to fix compilation failure when building for KDE 3 without id3lib or without TagLib.

Subversion

To get the latest source code, fetch it from Subversion using

svn export https://kid3.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kid3/trunk/kid3
cd kid3
make -f Makefile.cvs

Then you can build Kid3 with the usual configure and make commands or build an RPM or deb package. The table below summarizes the changes made to the source code in Subversion.

Date	Changes
10 Aug 2008	Import and export of all tags, additional tags can be imported from Discogs and MusicBrainz, Dutch translation.

History

Date	Release	Changes
3 Apr 2008	1.0	File filter, D-Bus interface, FLAC picture support, rename directory wizard, usability improvements.
2 Dec 2007	0.10	Direct editing of all frames. Support for MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio and WavPack files. Usability improvements. Support build with KDE 4.
12 Jun 2007	0.9	Hierarchical directory tree, enhanced context menu commands, editor for custom genres, mark truncated ID3v1.1 fields, import from gnudb.org and TrackType.org, usability improvements.
22 Nov 2006	0.8.1	Fixed bug: A new Custom genre was added on termination.
21 Nov 2006	0.8	Import from freedb2.org, Discogs and MusicBrainz release database. Support for ID3v2.4 and MPC using TagLib. Support build with Qt4 and tunepimp 0.5.x.
28 Jun 2006	0.7	Export, show/hide ID3v1.1/ID3v2.3, custom genres, automatic track numbering, improved import (search history, track reordering), split filename and tag format into separate options and commands, builds with libtunepimp 0.4.x.
31 Oct 2005	0.6	Support for Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files, import from MusicBrainz, usability improvements.
31 Jul 2004	0.5	Length and count check on import, shortcut configuration, rename and create directories from tags.
24 Jan 2004	0.4	Direct import from freedb.org. Minor GUI changes.
21 Oct 2003	0.3	Automatic case conversion and string replacements. Import of album data from freedb.org and other sources. Improved Windows version: persisted configuration, online help.
14 May 2003	0.2.1	Use automake/autoconf to build, no change on code.
28 Apr 2003	0.2	Placed controls in a scrollview, so that window can be resized. Show busy cursor while reading and writing files.
12 Jan 2003	0.1	First release at SourceForge

Contacting the Author

Urs Fleisch <ufleisch at users.sourceforge.net>