Alternatives to Metatogger
Clean up music tags and filenames with a Windows library utility. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Metatogger
Clean up music tags and filenames with a Windows library utility.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Metatogger.
Mp3tag
A tag editor that fixes the metadata of a whole music folder at once, with online database lookups.
Mp3tag is free on Windows and paid on macOS, batch editing many tag formats with online lookups from Discogs and MusicBrainz and regex-based renaming.
MusicBrainz Picard
The official MusicBrainz tagger, which identifies music by its audio fingerprint and fills in the tags.
MusicBrainz Picard is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, identifying files by AcoustID fingerprint and matching whole albums, though it needs internet access.
TagScanner
Rename music files and edit their tags in batches.
TagScanner is another free, closed-source Windows tool for batch tag editing and renaming files from metadata, with online tag retrieval.
Kid3
Edit audio-file tags individually or in batches.
Kid3 is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, editing multiple tag formats individually or in batches and renaming files from tags.
beets
Organize a music library from the command line.
beets is free, open source under MIT and cross-platform, organising a library and improving metadata during imports entirely from the command line.
puddletag
An audio tag editor for Linux with a spreadsheet-style layout, modelled on Mp3tag.
puddletag is a free, open source tag editor with a spreadsheet view and Discogs and MusicBrainz lookups, but it is built primarily for Linux rather than Windows.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
MusicBee
A Windows music manager for people with a large local library and opinions about tags.
foobar2000
A light, deeply configurable audio player for people who care about their local music library.
dBpoweramp
A secure CD ripper and batch audio converter for Windows and macOS.
Flacon
Split a full-album audio file into separate tagged tracks.
Strawberry Music Player
A Clementine fork aimed at collectors, with proper support for high-resolution files and CD ripping.
