The new version of Kid3 3.7.0 the audio tag editor is here

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Kid3 is a free, cross-platform and open source audio tagger It runs on Linux (KDE / Qt), MacOS, Windows, and Android.

With Kid3 user can easily tag multiple audio file formats without having to type the same information over and over again. This is a very useful tool when you need to tag large volumes of audio files for various purposes.

Kid3 currently supports almost all popular audio file formats: MP3, Ogg / Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 / AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, and AIFF (for example, full albums).

Kid3 is also loaded with different features (see feature list below) where you can convert between various ID3 versions. These are some of the features of Kid3:

  • Edit ID3v1.1 tags
  • Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
  • Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
  • Edit tags in MP3, Ogg / Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, MPC, MP4 / AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WAVPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF and tracking modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM)
  • Multi-file edit tags, for example artist, album, year, and genre for all files in an album usually have the same values ​​and can be set together.
  • Generate labels from file names
  • Generate file names from tags
  • Rename and create directories from tags.
  • Generate Playlist Files
  • Automatically convert uppercase and lowercase and replace strings
  • Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon, and other album data sources
  • Export tags as CSV, HTML, Playlists, Kover XML, and other formats.
  • Edit synchronized letter and event codes, import and export LRC files
  • Automate tasks using QML / JavaScript, D-Bus, or the command line interface

Main new features of Kid3 Tag Editor 3.7.0

Reluctantly the new version of this tag editor was released, with which this new version adds new playlist editor functions, who can add, delete and reorder the items in the playlist and convert between labels using multiple selections.

Kid3 3.7.0

This makes audio tagging faster than ever, of the other new features that can be highlighted we find:

  • Given this, the developers also worked on the function of being able to add and reorder the elements of the playlist with drag and drop within the application.
  • Edit tags of files referenced in the playlist.
  • Play songs from the playlist.
  • Drag the image files from the file list to embed them into audio files.
  • Drag files from the file list to other applications.
  • Reload the action to update the file list.
  • Endings with different values ​​when selecting multiple files.
  • Option “–dbus” to have a D-Bus interface with kid3-cli.
  • Encode "% {dirname}" to use the current directory name when renaming.
  • Encode "% {disk}" as an alias for "% {disk number}".
  • Edit the list of available formats to set file and directory names from tags and vice versa.

How to install Kid3 Tag Editor 3.7.0 on Ubuntu and derivatives?

For those interested in being able to install this application on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives. They should know that Kid3 it is available in a PPA that you can install by running the following commands from the terminal.

For this we are going to open a terminal in the system with the shortcut keys Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ufleisch/kid3

Then we will update our list of packages with:

sudo apt-get update

Finally we can install this application using any of the following options, the first one is for those who have the KDE desktop environment:

sudo apt-get install kid3

If you are not KDE users you can install the qt version on your system with:

sudo apt-get install kid3-qt

Or for those adventurous terminal lovers, they can opt for the CLI version:

sudo apt-get install kid3-cli

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