Release highlights of Kid3 3.7.0 tag editor.
Kid3 is a free and open source audio tagger runs on Linux (KDE/Qt), MacOS, Windows and Android. With Kid3 you can easily tag multiple formats of audio files without typing the same information again and again. This is very handy tool when you need to tag huge volumes of audio files for various purposes. Kid3 supports almost all popular audio file formats – MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files (e.g. full albums).
Kid3 is also loaded with different features (see below feature list) where you can convert between various ID3 versions. Here are some of the Kid3 features:
- 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, DSF, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM)
- 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 tags from the contents of tag fields
- 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, Amazon and other sources of album data
- Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats
- Edit synchronized lyrics and event timing codes, import and export LRC files
- Automate tasks using QML/JavaScript, D-Bus or the command-line interface
Kid3 recently releases version 3.7.0 with a major change i.e. Playlist editor.
With this new playlist editor feature you can add, remove and reorder playlist items and convert between tags using multiple selections. This makes the audio tagging faster than ever. Here are the changes introduced in 3.7.0 release:
New Features in 3.7.0
- Add and reorder playlist items using drag’n’drop.
- Edit tags from files referenced in playlist.
- Play songs from playlist.
- Drag image files from file list to embed them in audio files.
- Drag files from file list into other applications.
- Reload action to refresh file list.
- Completions with different values when selecting multiple files.
- Option “–dbus” to have a D-Bus interface with kid3-cli.
- Code “%{dirname}” to use current directory name when renaming.
- Code “%{disk}” as alias for “%{disc number}”.
- Edit list of availble formats to set file and directory names from the tags and vice versa.
How to Install
For Ubuntu, Linux Mint and derivatives – Kid3 is available in PPA which you can install by running below commands from terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch/kid3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kid3 # KDE users sudo apt-get install kid3-qt # without KDE dependencies sudo apt-get install kid3-cli # for the command-line interface
Once installed, you can find Kid3 in application menu.
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