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Last update: 2005/05/02
AUTHOR:
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Jérôme Couderc
E-mail: easytag@gmail.com
Home Page: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216
DESCRIPTION:
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EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis,
MusePack and Monkey's Audio files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes
tagging easier under GNU/Linux.
FEATURES:
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Currently EasyTAG supports the following:
o View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files
(FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), and MusePack, Monkey's
Audio files (APE tag),
o Can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track
Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL
and Encoder name,
o Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the
fields (using masks),
o Ability to rename files and directories from the tag (using masks) or by
loading a text file,
o Process selected files of the selected directory,
o Ability to browse subdirectories,
o Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving...,
o Can set a field (artist, title,...) to all other files,
o Read file header informations (bitrate, time, ...) and display them,
o Auto completion of the date if a partial is entered,
o Undo and redo last changes,
o Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into
uppercase, downcase, ...),
o Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program,
o CDDB support using Freedb.org servers (manual and automatic search),
o A tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album,
o A list to select files,
o A playlist generator window,
o A file searching window,
o Simple and explicit interface!,
o French, German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese,
Ukrainian, Czech, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Danish, Greek and Brazilian
Portuguese translation languages,
o Written in C and uses GTK+ 2.4 for the GUI.
INSTALLATION:
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Please see the file INSTALL.
LICENSE:
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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 sould be included in this package in the file COPYING )
CONTACTS:
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Visit the homepage at: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
or: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216
for more informations and new releases.
Please mail any bug reports, complaints, suggestions and comments to the
main author Jerome Couderc <easytag@gmail.com>.