EZ Meta Tag Editor
EZ Meta Tag Editor

Version history

Audio file manager, easy-to-use metadata editor for audio files

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13.2.1

  • Significantly improved Discogs metadata parsing for malformed, multi-disc, and multi-language releases, artist name variations/disambiguation, join phrases, CDr searches, and broad release-format compatibility

13.2

  • Improved Discogs metadata parsing with advanced support for complex releases and multi-disc formats
  • Updated FFmpeg 9.0.1 decoder
  • All metadata handlers and decoders recompiled and optimized
  • App file sizes and memory footprint significantly reduced
  • Bugfix: Help link corrected
  • Bugfix: Deleting album art in metadata window resulted icon error in main window
  • Bugfix: Microsoft Store: slated icon fixed

13.1

  • Added options in EBU R 128 | ReplayGain calculation to select the loudness algorithm (“Integrated” or “Top of Loudness Range”) and peak mode (“Sample Peak” or “True Peak”)
    • Loudness algorithm - “Integrated” (overall average loudness) or “Top of Loudness Range” (focuses on louder sections)
    • Peak mode - “Sample Peak” (highest digital sample) or “True Peak” (inter-sample peak estimation)
  • Improved Discogs search
    • Removes disambiguation numbers in parentheses from artist names (e.g., “Artist (2)”)
    • Improved track list parsing by skipping headings and correctly handling bonus track entries
  • Updated integrated File Explorer components
  • Installer: Option to launch app after installation
  • Updated *all* 35 language files

13.0.4

  • Rename files: Second set of <> (to remove tag if its value is nil) now works with CUSTOM metadata tags

13.0.2

  • Improved the new improved Dicogs metadata search
    • Fixed multiartist 'Album Artist' and 'Track Artist' metadata
    • Improved 'Various' compilation album search

13.0.1

  • Fixed metadata search Access Violation error that occured if DPI scaling was not 96 DPI / 100 %

13.0

  • Updated Opus 1.6.1 decoder
  • Updated Monkey's Audio [APE] 12.50 decoder
  • Updated WavPack 5.9.0 decoder
  • Updated FFmpeg 8.0.1 decoder
  • Added Deezer metadata service
  • New improved Discogs metadata search
  • Added iTunes album art source
  • Added Deezer album art source
  • Removed WMP metadata service because Microsoft shut down the service
  • Support for 32-bit (x86) has been ended
  • Support for Windows 7/8/8.1 has been ended, Windows 10 or later is now required
  • Removed UCRT (Universal C Runtime) from the installer, it is included as a core operating system component in Windows 10 and later
  • Updated German language
  • Updated Korean language
  • Updated Slovak language
  • Updated Brazilian Portuguese language
  • Updated Portuguese language

12.3.4

  • Folder tree correctly updates when an external drive is added or removed
  • Fixed a bug in MPEG-4 ISO FF DASH (streaming m4a/mp4 format) format metadata update (*may* have previously failed)
  • Updated French language
  • Updated Italian language
  • Updated Korean language
  • Updated Russian language
  • Updated Slovak language
  • Updated Spanish language

12.3.3

  • Improved multi-language text fields of Internet metadata retrieval window
  • Updated Bulgarian language
  • Updated Dutch language
  • Updated German language
  • Updated Italian language
  • Updated Korean 2 language
  • Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) language
  • Updated Portuguese (European) language
  • Updated Spanish language
  • Updated Swedish language
  • Updated Turkish language

12.3

  • Ogg Vorbis metadata handler
    • Does not freeze on corrupt Ogg Vorbis file that has an invalid Vorbis header
    • Fixed: Backup file was not always restored if metadata writing would have failed
  • Multi-line tag text field in Metadata Editor can now be enlargened/resized
  • Added <Date> to "Rename files" templates (uses complete Year/Date metadata text e.g. '2025-10-02')
  • Updated English language file template
  • Updated Finnish language
  • Updated Czech language
  • Updated Romanian language
  • Updated Korean language
  • Updated French language

12.2

  • Updated metadata handlers & decoders (APE, FFmpeg, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC)
  • Updated Korean language
  • Updated Danish language

12.1

  • Integrated Windows Explorer components update
    • ShellTree: A possible application freeze when loading a folder item for an unreachable element is now prevented
    • Some shell operations that might have caused application freezes for very slow or non-accessible elements are now handled asynchronously
    • High DPI improvements
    • Context Menu: The modern “Share” command, that was introduced with Windows 10 is now working in ShellBrowser’s context menu
    • ShellList: In rename operations it is now possible to remove the extension of a file, even if Windows Explorer is configured to hide extensions. In prior versions, trying to do so didn’t have any effect
  • Cosmetic UI scaling bug in Settings/General/Metadata fixed
  • New metadata support
    • PERFORMER
    • SPARS code

12.0.3

  • Integrated Windows Explorer folder view now respects the Windows Explorer 'Show all folders' setting and shows the folder tree similar to Windows Explorer
  • FLAC 1.5.0 decoder
  • WavPack 5.8.0 decoder

12.0.2

  • MusicBrainz downloaded album art default resolution changed to 1200px (previously large/500px)
  • Discogs now correctly gets Album Artist / Track Artist(s) when it consists of several parts
  • Improved auto-numbering Number tags menu
  • Bugfix: Renaming a folder with a "file extension" could not remove the "file extension"

12.0.1

  • Cover Art Load/Save buttons option for Last used folder / Audio file folder
  • Renaming the current folder or parent folder preserves metadata editing state
  • Improved folder view refresh
  • Read invalid FLAC files where the STREAMINFO is not the first metadata block (as stated in FLAC standard), automatically fix the file format when saving metadata
  • Bugfix: 'Metadata from filename' added trailing space to 'Album Artist' and/or 'Track Artist' tags with templates that contain '<Album Artist> - <Album>' and/or '<Track Artist> - <Title>'
  • Bugfix: 'Rename files' may have shown 'Access Violation' error before opening 'Rename files' window when Windows DPI scaling was not (default) 100%/96 DPI

12.0

  • New: Support for Chapters [ m4a m4b flac ogg opus ]
    • Load/Save Chapter information
    • Edit Chapter time offsets and titles
  • New: Installer option for creating desktop shortcut
  • New: Saving metadata to MPEG-4 ISO FF 'DASH' format [ .m4a streaming format ]
  • Bugfix: Discogs metadata UTF8 conversion was broken (due C++ library bug since unknown date)

3.5.2

  • Automatic 'Size All Columns to Fit' option
  • Bugfix: 'Size Column To Fit' did not apply to the correct column if the default column order was altered
  • Build 2: Improved album detection on Discogs query

3.5.1

  • Opus 1.5.1 decoder
  • WavPack 5.7.0 decoder
  • Monkey's Audio [APE] 10.55 decoder
  • Improved support for Wave [wav], Wave64 [w64] and AIFF [aif aiff aifc] non-PCM formats
  • Detect WebM files with *invalid* .ogg (Vorbis) or .opus (Opus) extensions and handle the files correctly

3.5

  • Support Matroska metadata (.mka & .mkv)
  • Support WebM metadata (.webm)
  • Improved WAV, AIFF and Wave64 metadata writing (can fix incorrectly aligned last ID3/custom chunk written by a non-compliant software)

3.4.1

  • Bugfix: Fixed manual MusicBrainz / Discogs / GD3 metadata search

3.4

  • C++ compilers, libraries and runtime updates, performande, stability and general improvements
  • Monkey's Audio [ APE ] 10.29 decoder
  • Adjusted metadata window edit-field margins (for usability)

3.3.1

  • Updated JPEG support (updated libjpeg6b to mozjpeg 4.1.1/libjpeg8d)
    • Up to 20% smaller JPEG files with improved visual quality
    • Improved JPEG decoding performance (faster UI with JPEG cover art)
    • Non-standard JPEGs with more than 10 blocks/MCU now loaded without errors

3.3

  • Copy/Paste metadata from a file(s) to file(s)
  • Get metadata tags from filenames
  • Auto-number files' track number metadata
  • Single-click clear metadata of selected files
  • Amazon Cover Art search works again with all Amazon stores and added new Amazon stores
  • Improved File Rename

3.2

  • Updated integrated File Explorer components
  • Updated FLAC 1.4.3 decoder
  • Updated Monkey's Audio [APE] 10.18 decoder

3.1.2

  • Made 'Comment' field to 4 full rows
  • ID3v2.3: Write Year/Date to TYER frame only (for compatibility). Support reading TYER+TDAT frames and TYER Year/Date frame. (v3.1 and v3.1.1 wrote TYER+TDAT, older versions TYER only)

3.1.1

  • Enter key now moves to the next row in 'Quick Edit' mode
  • Album Art MIME type was set incorrectly

3.1

  • File list editing improvements
  • Improved metadata support
  • Improved support for Release Date metadata tag (Year-field can contain either Release Year or Release Date)
  • Improved ID3V2 [mp3] and MPEG-4 ISO FF [m4a] metadata
  • Support Monkey's Audio [APE] 32-bit floating point files
  • Indicate 32-bit *floating point* audio in Bit Depth field
  • New recognized metadata fields
    • Mixer
    • Engineer
    • Producer
    • DJ Mixer

3.0

  • New updated user interface
  • Improved files & folders management with Drag & Drop Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete
  • More editable metadata tags in the file list and quick metadata panel
  • New recognized metadata fields; ARRANGER, CATALOGNUMBER
  • View and manage external Album Art & image files
  • Full Windows Explorer style file browser
  • Integrated Album Art & Image Viewer

2.2.5

  • Dark mode improvements
  • Decoder updates

2.2.4

  • Darker Dark Mode (now inline with the Windows 10/11 dark mode design)
  • Improved Windows 10 Dark Mode window caption, border, shadows

2.2.3

  • Dark Mode available
  • User interface view improvements
  • Fixed folder view high DPI scaling

2.2.2

  • Improved MPEG-4 ISO [.m4a] AAC file properties detection for AAC-LC <= 24 kHz and HE-AAC Mono formats
  • Improved AAC multichannel signaling detection (ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009/Amd 4:2013) (6.1, 7.1 rear)
  • Correctly read MPEG-4 ISO file [.m4a] 'Compilation' tag value (don't detect as compilation if 'Compilation' tag is set to 'false')
  • Updated all decoders to support 5.0, 6.1, and 7.1 multichannel (in addition to 4.0 Quad and 5.1)
  • Improved ReplayGain / EBU R128 scanning for multichannel files
  • Show file sample rate with 3 decimals (e.g. 22.050 kHz / 44.100 kHz) (previously 22.1 kHz / 44.1 kHz)

2.2.1

  • Updated the previous version change row/column navigation 'Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down' to 'Alt + Left/Right/Up/Down' in track/file lists ('Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down' reserved for edit control cursor movement)

2.2

  • Certified for Windows 11
  • Improved track/file lists navigation (navigate rows/columns with 'Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down')
  • Fixed crash when loading invalid GIF image from metadata
  • Monkey's Audio [ APE ] v7.02 decoder update
  • Opus decoder update (LibOgg 1.3.5)
  • FLAC decoder update (LibOgg 1.3.5)
  • Vorbis decoder update (LibOgg 1.3.5)

2.1

  • Bugfix access violation when launching external audio player
  • Decoder and detection improvements for Wave [ .wav ] and AAC, AAC-LC, HE-AAC (v2) [ .m4a ] file formats
  • Updated MP3/MP2/MP1 decoder (improved detection and decoding of files that contain bad first frames)
  • Added support for Ogg FLAC [ .ogg .oga ] format
  • Added support for .m4v file format
  • Added Support for .oga [ Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Ogg FLAC ] file format

2.0.8

  • Updated Discogs service
  • Updated xHE-AAC (m4a) metadata handler
  • Updated AAC-LC/HE-AAC/HE-AAC v2 (m4a/m4b/aac) metadata handlers
  • Updated Monkey's Audio metadata handler
  • Updated WavPack metadata handler
  • Updated xHE-AAC decoder
  • Updated AAC-LC/HE-AAC/HE-AAC v2 decoders
  • Updated Monkey's Audio decoder
  • Updated WavPack decoder

2.0.7

  • Integrated Windows File Explorer component updated
  • Allow file operations in shell tree
  • Updated AAC and xHE-AAC decoders

2.0.6

  • Support xHE-AAC
  • Improved Discogs search matching

2.0.5

  • Get 1080px cover art from WMP service (service default recently changed from 1080px to 720px)
  • Get Genre (most voted) metadata from MusicBrainz service
  • Get Genre metadata from Discogs service
  • Read ALBUM ARTIST metadata to Album Artist metadata if ALBUMARTIST (standard) does not exist

2.0.4

  • Improved output filenames / rename files filename generation
    • New predefined tags
    • All metadata tags can be used
  • Updated Monkey's Audio 5.11 decoder (for the ReplayGain scanner)
    • Multi-channel support
    • 32-bit samples support

2.0.3

  • Improved cover art icons

2.0.2

  • Bugfix: Fixed a bug in DSD decoder (ReplayGain scanning) (buffer overflow in decoder-delay handling)
  • Bugfix: Fixed the bug where the App may have crashed when handling an audio file with corrupt embedded cover
  • Latest language files included

2.0.1

  • Added WavPack DSD Support
  • Bugfix: Fixed the bug of v2.0.0 where the window size was not restored to correct size on a DPI-scaled screen

2.0

  • Cover art resize; custom resolution
  • Support DSDIFF (DSD) (.dff) metadata
  • Added DSDIFF (DSD) (.dff) decoder (for ReplayGain)
  • Handle YEAR (DATE) tag as a string in advanced metadata editor
  • Add edit space to YEAR (DATE) tag so that date in format '2019-09-18' is fully visible
  • Updated Amazon Cover Art search
    • High resolution cover art is available again
    • Amazon query responds more reliably
  • Updated DSD Stream File (.dsf) decoder (for ReplayGain)

1.1

  • M4A rating tag Windows File Explorer compatibility
  • Updated all metadata handlers to the latest versions

1.0.4

  • Amazon Cover Art Search now works again (change in Amazon Search URL)
    • Higher resolution cover art from Amazon now available
  • Added BARCODE (UPC/EAN) and LABEL predefined metadata fields

1.0.3

  • Wave64 support
  • Minor user interface improvements

1.0.2

  • Update the file list significantly faster

1.0.1

  • Fixed the bug where MusicBrainz query froze the App when MusicBrainz service returned malformed metadata entry. Bug occurred in very rare occasions.

1.0

  • Initial release