Open Source Linux File Tagging Software

TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags.

IDTE is a full-featured tag editor for Windows that supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3v1.x/2.x, WMA, Lyrics, and Vorbis metadata in audio files. It also includes a powerful audio player with support for 40+ lossy and lossless formats, including FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3, and more. IDTE offers a wide range of advanced features: • Rename files using tag information • Export and manage tag data • Create and manage playlists • Search online for missing or incomplete tags • Fetch lyrics and album artwork • Full CUE sheet support • Batch processing and multi-file editing • SFX, visualizations, and more A new, minimalistic version of IDTE is also available for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/idte ⚠️ Important Notice Tagging MP4 video files and WAV audio files using IDTE is not recommended. WAV tag support is ambiguous and inconsistently handled across players (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV).

Qoobar - Audio Tagger for Classical Music. It can - Edit ID3v2.4, Xiph.org, APE, ASF tags. - Rename files and fill in tags. - Work with groups of files. - Insert chars with diacritics.

This Java software is useful to set id3v1 and id3v2 tags on mp3 files, possibly in a massive way. It helps you managing a song database, searching for duplicate songs. It has a rename file utility, not only for mp3 files. It has an utility panel to create playlists, re-organize files in folders with the name format you prefer, an utility to optimize the CD disk space. This program was written in 2002, so I don't remember much about it ... but I used it a lot, as much as my close friends. I decided only now (shame on me) to share it with everybody in the world. Hope you'll like it, also the program's help is fully working now !!! Nice to install eclipse and debugging something 10 years later ... Please rate the software once you've used it ! Also need still to learn how to upload souce code with git, but also that will come soon or later.

This is a simple application to bookmark/tag your folder/file. Filesystem will not be affected. You can add tag by directly right clicking the folder/file. For searching, approximate word matching is used. Files/folders will be sorted for required tags and the most matching will come on the top. For tagging websites, right now, you have to copy paste path. Plugin/extension for web-browsers need to be done.

A Java Audio File Tagger , using the freedb online database for the retrieval of the tags, released under the (L)GPL license. It supports custom file renaming from tags (with any directory stucture) and vice versa. Supports: mp3, ogg, flac, mpc, ape,wma

This program allows you to tag files with any tags and search through tagged files. UI is not the best so please look at the title of a window if you don't know what the window does. Usage - By window titles • Search Files - In this window you can search tagged files, but you need to tag some files first. If you have tagged files already you can search through them by entering tag or tags(separate tags with a space) into box at the top and clicking the Search button. • Select File - In this window you select a file to be tagged, you can change directory with button in the top left corner, to tag a file you need to select it from the list and click Next button, or double click a file on the list. • Tag Files - Here you can assign tags to the selected file, write your tag in the box and press the Add button, your tag will appear in the list below, you can delete a tag by selecting it and clicking Remove Tag button. When you are finished click Save button, you will be able

Fileytale is a document management application. It has a feature for managing documents from multiple folders into a single project/folder. Fileytale can save only the metadata, saving storage space. It also has a snapshot (experimental) feature that can save versions of your documents. It also has a program (experimental) feature that allows you to create programs to manage your documents. One of its program features is savedoc, which allows you to save documents to another folder. This application has been abandoned, so there is no support for bugs or errors. for linux : .deb for windows : .zip

Tag, search (e.g., by similarity), manage data collections of your choosing. Currently optimized for music and image data. Uses sha1 hashes for identification. Please use additional programs such as: IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) and MPC (https://mpc-hc.org) for media handling and a console with unicode support, like ConEmu (https://conemu.github.io).

mtag (Music Tagger) is a command line id3v1~v2.4 and ogg/flac tag editor. With mtag, you can `list/modifiy/delete' almost all fields (id3 picture frame, lyrics ...) of id3/ogg/flac tags and `write tags/rename files' by pattern matching

It's an automatic tagger made for facilitating mass audio metadata correction process by comparing & editing their tags/filenames via Last.fm.

A portable, cross-platform desktop file tagging and meta-data indexing system with console and GUI interfaces.

Command-line toolset for extracting text from files (documents, images, archives) into SQLite with OCR support. Simple, expandable, one shell script only.

FEATURES: Editing of single ID3 TAGs, rename files, mass tagging with variables %dir and %file, exchange tags, set tags based on filenames, sort files, unsort files, create playlists and search for files.

id3tagr is an open-source GPL-licensed tagger for MP3 files. It looks up MP3s in the online MusicBrainz database and automatically tags them with the proper ID3v2 tags.

IMPORTANT: Refractag was later renamed to Inferact. Please use the latter for improved functionality. File-tagging for Windows and Linux. Terminal interface only, for now.

This library and tools help you to keep tags for files in an external database. As few external dependencies as possible are needed, making it a lightweight file tagging solution.

Terz the incredible AutoTagger is a automated Audio File Tagger and File Renamer. It uses information provided by musicbrainz. By using context information Terz achieves very good results. Other features: show incomplete albums, search for Duplicates ...

A Gtk2/Perl utility to tag files with keyword and notes/description data. This uses extended attributes to store the data, which depends on OS/filesystem support. This project is similar to the Norton Utilities FileInfo (fi) utility from the DOS era.