Mp3tag 1.14.1 Mac

Mp3tag is a desktop utility for editing the metadata inside audio files on a Mac.

1. Load a messy folder and fix it in bulk

Drop a folder of tracks onto the main window. The file list fills with everything Mp3tag can read. Select all, then open the Tag Panel on the left to set artist, album, and year across every file at once. A batch edit here replaces scattered or missing tags in seconds.

2. Pull tag data from Discogs or MusicBrainz

Highlight an album’s worth of tracks, head to Tag Sources in the menu bar, and pick Discogs or MusicBrainz. Mp3tag searches by the existing title or artist and returns a complete set of fields—track names, genres, labels, and release dates. Accept the match, and the whole selection updates without retyping a thing.

3. Grab cover art and shrink it on import

Cover art comes along with the tag-source lookup, but the app can also resize and re-encode it on the fly. In preferences, set a maximum size and preferred format for embedded covers. Every image added afterward is automatically adjusted, keeping files lean.

4. Rename files straight from the tags

Once the metadata is clean, select the files and choose Convert > Tag – Filename. Build a pattern using tokens like %artist% – %title%, and the actual file names rewrite themselves to match. It turns a folder of random strings into a neatly labeled library.

Right-click a column header to show hidden fields

Several touches in Mp3tag speed up work once you spot them. Right-click any column header and you can show or hide fields like Composer, BPM, or Disc Number. Dragging columns sideways reorders them, so the layout fits the way you think about a library. A double-click on a single cell enters inline editing, and pressing Tab jumps to the next row in the same column—fast for correcting a handful of tracks without opening the full Tag Panel.

The Filter bar at the bottom of the window accepts plain text, but it also reads simple expressions. Typing artist HAS "live" isolates live recordings, while year LESS 1990 narrows the list to older material. Press Cmd+F to jump into the filter, Cmd+Shift+F to clear it. Another overlooked helper: holding Option while dragging files out of the list copies them instead of moving, useful when you want duplicate sets with different naming schemes.

Action groups, tucked under the Actions menu, chain multiple steps—say, format track numbers to two digits, then adjust cover size, then rename files—into a single click. The recent crash fix in version 1.14.1 made this window stable on newer macOS builds, so grouping tasks is now reliable enough for daily use.

What to know before you download

Does it handle Apple Silicon Macs?

Yes. The current download includes native Apple Silicon support, so it runs without Rosetta translation on M-series machines. The same build covers Intel Macs as well, and the installer detects the architecture automatically.

Will it write tags my DJ software can read?

Mp3tag saves standard ID3v2 and MP4 tags that Serato, Rekordbox, Traktor, and Engine DJ all parse without issue. WAV and AIF files use INFO chunks, which fewer apps support, but the tags remain intact inside the file itself. If a deck or mixer displays blank fields, the problem is usually the hardware's tag-reading scope, not the file.

Can I undo a batch edit if I mess up?

Undo (Cmd+Z) steps back through recent tag changes within the current session. Once you close the file list, the undo history clears. A safer habit is to test a new action group on two or three files before running it across thousands—trivial to do by selecting a small set first.

Tag fetching needs internet, local editing doesn’t

Only for Discogs, MusicBrainz, and cover-art searches. All local editing, renaming, and file conversion work offline.

Unlock read-only files that stay grayed out

Files appear grayed out and refuse edits. Mp3tag skips files marked read-only by the filesystem. Select the tracks in Finder, press Cmd+I, and uncheck "Locked" in the Info window, or adjust permissions at the folder level.

Cover art vanishes after editing. Some users open the Extended Tags window while the Tag Panel has unsaved cover changes. Prior to the fixes in 1.14.1, the app discarded those changes silently. The current build preserves them, but the safe sequence remains: save the file list before opening Extended Tags, Tag Sources, Converters, or Actions.

Decimal BPM values get cut off. Older versions truncated BPM decimals in MP4 containers—"128.5" became "128." The 1.14.1 update corrected this, so fractional BPM values now survive a save cycle in M4A and MP4 files.

Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Because the app ships outside the Mac App Store, macOS flags it. Right-click the app icon and choose Open, then confirm in the dialog. After that first override, launches proceed normally.

For those searching out a copy through routes like Mp3tag Mac torrent or Mp3tag crack, the same Gatekeeper dance applies after mounting the disk image—the install steps don't change regardless of how the package was obtained.

A collector's Saturday afternoon

Consider a record collector who has just digitized a crate of 1990s drum-and-bass 12-inches. The folder holds fifty WAV files named things like TRACK01.wav and SIDE_A_MIX2.wav. None carry metadata. She drags the folder into Mp3tag and selects everything. A quick Discogs lookup against the catalog number scribbled on the vinyl sleeve pulls in artist names, track titles, the label, and the release year. She ticks the cover art box and sets the preference to cap embedded images at 600 pixels—small enough to keep the files portable, large enough to read on a CDJ screen.

With tags filled, she highlights the batch and runs a rename action using the pattern %artist% – %title% (%year%). The file names shift from gibberish to legible strings in under a second. She then applies an action group that formats BPM to one decimal place and writes the genre as "Drum & Bass" across every track. The whole cleanup, from blank files to a tagged and renamed library, takes about four minutes. She copies the folder onto a USB stick for a gig that night and keeps the originals on an external drive—two identical sets, one naming scheme, no manual typing.

Version 1.14.1 ships with a handful of fixes. A crash on macOS 27 triggered by adding action groups in the Actions Groups window has been resolved. Cover changes made in the Tag Panel are no longer discarded when Extended Tags is opened before saving, and unsaved Tag Panel edits are now preserved when jumping to Cover Search, Tag Sources, Converters, Auto-Numbering, or Actions. Decimal BPM values also stopped being truncated to integers in MP4 tags.

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