README for EasyTAG

Home page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG/ Discussion forum: https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/easytag

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

GLib version greater than 2.38.0 (https://www.gtk.org)
GTK+ version greater than 3.14.0 (https://www.gtk.org)
libid3tag (https://www.underbit.com/products/mad) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-mp3')
id3lib version greater than 3.7.12 (https://id3lib.sourceforge.net/) (Recommended: id3lib-3.8.3) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-id3v23')
flac (https://xiph.org/flac/) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-flac')
libogg and libvorbis (https://xiph.org/vorbis/) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-ogg')
libnautilus-extension (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nautilus) (if not deactivated by ./configure --disable-nautilus-actions')
libsoup (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libsoup) (if not deactivated for './configure --disable-cddb')
opus and opusfile (https://www.opus-codec.org/) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-opus')
taglib (https://taglib.org/) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-mp4')
wavpack (https://www.wavpack.com/) (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-wavpack')
yelp (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Yelp) is required at runtime for showing the user help
yelp-tools (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp-tools)
libc 6 (glibc 2.1) or greater
appdata-tools (https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools)
intltool (if not deactivated by './configure --disable-nls')

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)