Powerful, simple, audio tag editor for GNU/Linux
Spreadsheet-style tag editor modelled on Mp3tag, with actions, format strings and online lookups, on Linux.
alternatives to
Mp3tag
Tag editor for audio files on Windows and macOS, with batch edits and online database lookups. A closed product from Florian Heidenreich.
Side by side
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| puddletag | Full replacement | 640 | Other | Open source | No | Python | 2.5.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| beets | Partial | 16k | MIT | Open source | No | Python | v2.14.1 | 2026-10-06 |
| MusicBrainz Picard | Partial | 5.3k | GPL-2.0 | Open source | No | Python | release-3.0 | 2026-10-06 |
Every alternative
3 alternatives
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Command-line library manager that tags from MusicBrainz and moves files into an organised tree.
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
Tags files from MusicBrainz by metadata or acoustic fingerprint, with scripts for naming files; less suited to free-form batch edits.
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Stars
- 5.3k
- Latest
- release-3.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Head to head
About Mp3tag
- Vendor
- Florian Heidenreich