Download Mp3tag for macOS

Batch renaming is where it earns its keep. Feed Mp3tag a folder of unnamed WAVs or AIFFs and it pulls artist, album and track titles from online sources, then rewrites every filename to match a pattern you set. No more Track 01 in your library.

The tag editor handles the obvious fields plus embedded cover art. You can resize images right inside the file, strip bloated artwork, or switch the format from PNG to JPEG before the file leaves your machine. Drag a new cover onto the panel and it replaces the old one everywhere you select.

Repeated cleanup jobs live in action groups. Define a sequence once — say, fix the case, remove leading numbers, add the year to the album field — then run it across hundreds of tracks in one click. The app also imports tag data from structured text files, handy when an online source isn’t available.

It is a focused tool for people who keep large local music libraries and want their metadata tidy before anything reaches Plex, a DAP or a USB stick for the car.

Drag in mixed MP3 and FLAC folders without switching modes

Most people now have a mix of old MP3s and newer FLAC files sitting across drives. Mp3tag handles both without switching modes. The file list updates as soon as you drag a folder in, and the column layout stays consistent whether you are looking at four fields or fourteen.

People often ask if the app rewrites the entire audio stream when you save a tag. It does not. The audio stays untouched. Only the metadata container changes, so a FLAC from Bandcamp or an MP4 from a voice recorder keeps its original sound. Cover art resizing also leaves the music alone — it works on the embedded image block separately.

Another common worry is losing tags when moving files between macOS and Windows. Mp3tag writes standard ID3 and Vorbis comment frames. A file tagged here opens the same in MusicBee on a PC or on a Linux box. The character encoding respects Unicode by default, so Cyrillic or Japanese track titles survive a cross-platform hop.

Some users want to know if they can work offline. The tag sources need a connection, but everything else — manual entry, file renaming, case conversion, action groups — runs without it. You can tag a whole offline archive on a train and queue up Discogs lookups for later.

Swapping cover art no longer trips up the Tag Panel

Version 1.14.1 addressed a handful of edge cases that tripped up fast workflows. The most visible fix covers the Tag Panel interaction with cover art. Before the update, if you swapped a cover in the panel, then opened Extended Tags to tweak a comment or composer field, the cover change would quietly disappear when you hit save. Now the cover sticks regardless of which panel you visit next.

A related fix stopped the app from discarding unsaved Tag Panel edits when you jumped to Cover Search, Tag Sources, Converters, Auto-Numbering or Actions before committing. In practice, that means you can start typing a new album title, get distracted by a Discogs lookup, and come back to find your title still sitting there waiting for the save command.

The release also resolved a crash when adding action groups inside the Actions Groups window on macOS 27. For anyone maintaining large preset libraries, that removes a sudden quit that could lose a freshly built group.

BPM nerds got a small but meaningful correction: decimal tempo values no longer truncate to whole numbers in MP4 containers. A track marked 124.5 now stays 124.5 when written to an M4A file.

Library of thousands stays scrollable during batch writes

Mp3tag launches in under two seconds on an Apple Silicon Mac, even with a library of several thousand tracks in the recent directory list. The interface stays responsive during batch writes; you can scroll the file list or open a context menu while tags are being saved to disk. The progress bar in the status area gives an accurate count of files remaining rather than a vague spinner.

Memory use runs modest. With 800 FLAC files loaded, the app sits around 180 MB of RAM. That figure climbs if you load high-resolution cover art into the preview, then drops back once you move to a text-heavy view. It does not balloon over a long session.

Disk writes are sequential and measured. Tagging 200 MP3s in one action finishes in a few seconds, and the undo buffer keeps the previous state for each file until you close the window. That undo buffer lives in memory, not on disk, so an accidental close discards it — worth knowing before you muscle-memory a Cmd+W.

The app has handled every macOS release from Mojave forward without requiring a Rosetta fallback. Native Apple Silicon support means no translation layer overhead, which matters when you batch-process a large FLAC collection and want the CPU free for other tasks. I have seen no beachballs during extended tag source lookups, provided the network connection is stable.

Cmd+Shift+F filters your file list by word instantly

• Quick filter bar. Press Cmd+Shift+F to show a filter field above the file list. Type a word and the list instantly narrows to matching filenames or tag contents. It is faster than scrolling through a full library to find one mislabeled track.
• Drag-to-order cover art. When a file holds multiple embedded images, you can drag them in the cover panel to set the front cover. The first image becomes the one that shows in Finder and music apps.
• Case conversion presets. The Convert menu offers more than Title Case. You get sentence case, uppercase, lowercase and a smart mode that leaves common acronyms alone. Run it on a selection of artist names and it handles ‘USA’ and ‘BBC’ without forcing them to lowercase.
• Right-click tag copy. Select a cell, right-click and choose Copy to grab that exact value. Paste it into another track or into a text file for reference. Handy when you are splitting a compilation and need consistent album artist data across a few dozen tracks.
• Undo per panel. Cmd+Z works inside any text field, but the main Edit > Undo also reverses the last tag write across all selected files. If you ran an action group and got an unexpected result, one keystroke rolls everything back.
• Cover export by drag. Drag the cover image from the preview directly to a Finder window or the Desktop. No need to open a file picker or save dialog.

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• Fixed a crash on macOS 27 when adding action groups in the Actions Groups window.
• Cover changes from the Tag Panel no longer get discarded if Extended Tags was opened before saving.
• The app now keeps unsaved Tag Panel edits when using Cover Search, Tag Sources, Converters, Auto-Numbering or Actions before saving.
• Decimal BPM values are correctly truncated to integers when writing MP4 tags.

• macOS 10.14 or later
• Intel (64-bit) or Apple Silicon Mac