README for EasyTAG
Home page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG/
Mailing list: easytag-list@gnome.org
Description
EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg
Vorbis, Speex and Opus, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files.
Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or
Windows.
Features
Currently EasyTAG supports the following:
- view, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files
(FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis, Speex and Opus files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/AAC
(MP4/AAC tag), MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files (APE tag)
- can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track
Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL
and Encoder name
- auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the
fields (using masks)
- ability to rename files and directories from the tag (using masks) or by
loading a text file
- process selected files of the selected directory
- ability to browse subdirectories
- recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving…
- can set a field (artist, title, …) to all other selected files
- read file header information (bitrate, time, …) and display them
- auto completion of the date if a partial is entered
- undo and redo last changes
- ability to process fields of tag and filename (convert letters into
upper case, lower case, …)
- ability to open a directory or a file with an external program
- CDDB support for manual or automatic search
- a tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album
- a list to select files
- a playlist generator window
- a file searching window
- simple and explicit interface!
- optional Nautilus extension, for opening of files and directories through the
Nautilus context menu
- Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian translation languages
- written in C and uses GTK+ 3 for the GUI
Installation
Requirements
Compilation instructions
See INSTALL.
When running, if you get the following warning about the EasyTAG settings
schema that is not installed:
(easytag:19122): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.EasyTAG' is not installed
make sure that the GSettings schema and enums files can be found somewhere in
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/glib-2.0/schemas (for example /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas) and
that the schema cache has been updated with glib-compile-schemas.
There are two files to copy to the schema path, and the glib-compile-schemas
command must run on the directories which have been updated. Example commands
follow:
sudo cp org.gnome.EasyTAG.enums.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo cp data/org.gnome.EasyTAG.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
If uninstalling, the files should be removed and the schema cache updated.
License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
(It should be included in this package in the file COPYING)
