Kid3 tagger can edit the ID3v1 tags and all ID3v2 frames in MP3 files and the tags in Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files in an efficient way. It is easy to convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files to the same values and generate the tags from the file name or vice versa. Import is possible from freedb.org, MusicBrainz, and other sources of track data.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Editors |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows POSIX Linux Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C++ |
| Translations | Italian English Russian German Spanish Dutch Polish |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Kid3 celebrates its 10th birthday with a new release featuring automatic batch importation for multiple directories from various sources, improved importation capabilities, bugfixes, and usability improvements.


Release Notes: This release fixed the selection of the wrong language if the primary language is not supported and the first fallback language should be English, and an issue where the English handbook was displayed instead of the German for a German locale.


Release Notes: The Discogs import has been rewritten to use the Discogs API 2.0. AcoustID audio fingerprint import can now also use GStreamer for decoding. This release also includes bugfixes and usability improvements.


Release Notes: It is now possible to import track data using Chromaprint Acoustid fingerprints. Keyboard shortcuts are configurable. This release also includes bugfixes and usability improvements.


Release Notes: Minor bugfixes. The build system is also improved, and should work out of the box on most distributions.
Recent comments
12 Dec 2006 10:42
Re: does not work
There is a problem with the configure detection of id3lib on Suse Linux. The following patch should fix it:
Extract the original kid3-0.8.1.tar.gz archive, then go into the kid3-0.8.1 directory and apply the patch using:
patch -p1 <../kid3-0.8.1-configure_id3lib_check.patch
Make sure you have the following packages installed:
taglib-devel, id3lib-devel, libtunepimp-devel, libvorbis-devel, flac-devel
10 Dec 2006 02:45
does not work
I compiled the program on Suse Linux 10.1.
It starts. But what ever mp3 file I load, it does not show existing mp3 tags, nor can I set new tags.
The programs seems to be totaly useless, very frustrating.