Kid3

Kid3
Kid3
	Main window of Kid3 audio tagger
Developer	Urs Fleisch
Stable release	3.10.2 (8 October 2026; 16 days ago) [±]
Written in	C++
Operating system	Android, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
Available in	34 languages
	List of languages Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic script), Serbian (Latin script), Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Valencian
Type	Tag editor
License	GNU General Public License
Website	kid3.kde.org
Repository	invent.kde.org/multimedia/kid3 ;

Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Matroska, WebM, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

Features

Edit and convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags.
Access to all tag fields.
Batch edit tags of multiple files.
Generate tags from filenames or from the contents of other tag fields.
Generate filenames from tags, rename and create directories from tags.
Generate playlist files.
Automatically convert upper and lower case and replace strings.
Search and filter files by tags.
Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon and other sources of album data.
Automatic batch import of metadata and cover art for multiple albums from different sources.
Import using acoustic fingerprints and AcoustID.
Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats.

References

↑ "Release schedule".
↑ "Kid3 at Ohloh". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
↑ "KDE Localization Package Statistics: kid3". l10n.kde.org. KDE. Retrieved 6 August 2022.

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Kreußel, Peter (2018). "Kid3 3.6.1 – handlicher Audiotag-Editor". EasyLinux (in German) (10). Linux New Media AG: 24.
Peers, Nick (2021). "How to tag your media with Kid3". APC (magazine) (489). Future Australia: 101.
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External links

Official website

[1] "Release schedule".

[2] "Kid3 at Ohloh". Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. Retrieved 2014-01-05.

[3] "KDE Localization Package Statistics: kid3". l10n.kde.org. KDE. Retrieved 6 August 2022.

Kid3

Features

See also

References

Bibliography

External links