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Kid3

Tag editor

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Source updated June 6, 2026
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Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Matroska, WebM, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

01Features

  • Edit and convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.
  • Access to all tag fields.
  • Batch edit tags of multiple files.
  • Generate tags from filenames or from the contents of other tag fields.
  • Generate filenames from tags, rename and create directories from tags.
  • Generate playlist files.
  • Automatically convert upper and lower case and replace strings.
  • Search and filter files by tags.
  • Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon and other sources of album data.
  • Automatic batch import of metadata and cover art for multiple albums from different sources.
  • Import using acoustic fingerprints and AcoustID.
  • Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats.
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