Free MP3 Tag Editor That Runs in Your Browser

It is the metadata block inside the file: title, artist, album, track number, cover art and more. An ID3v1 tag is a short fixed block at the end of the file; ID3v2 sits at the start, holds any length of text in any language and can carry pictures and lyrics. Most MP3s today have ID3v2, sometimes with a v1 block as well. Players only read these fields; to edit ID3 tags you need an ID3 editor, such as this MP3 ID3 tag editor.

Drop the file on the editor above, click a field and type: that is how to edit metadata of an MP3 in short. Here is how to change metadata on an MP3 in more detail: select the row, edit the title, artist, album or any other field in the panel, then click Download to save the updated copy. To edit song metadata for a whole album, select every row first and the values you type apply to all of them. Think of it as a metadata changer that never touches the sound.

The best free tag editor depends on the job. For quick fixes, the simplest way to tag MP3s: software you already have open, your browser. A free music tag editor like EzVisualizer needs nothing else. For automatic tagging from a music database, MusicBrainz Picard is the standard. For heavy batch work on Windows, Mp3tag is the long-time favorite.

For most everyday edits, yes. Mp3tag is a freeware music tag editor for Windows with a paid Mac version and many formats; it is a capable desktop tagger. MP3 files edited here get the same ID3 frames with no MP3 tag editor software to install, which makes EzVisualizer a practical Mp3tag alternative: a tag editor for MP3s online, on a Mac, a Chromebook or a computer you cannot install apps on.

Yes, for basic edits. In VLC open the file, then Tools, Media Information on Windows and Linux (Ctrl+I), or Window, Media Information on a Mac (Cmd+I). Change the title, artist, album, genre, date or track number and click Save Metadata. It edits one file at a time and has no batch tools, so it suits a quick fix rather than a whole library.

EzVisualizer automates the mechanical part: it reads tags from file names with a pattern, numbers tracks in order and copies album fields to every file. For one song at a time, it can also search MusicBrainz by the artist and title you type and fill in the title, album, year, track and ISRC, plus the release cover. It does not identify songs by their sound. For that, an automatic tag editor such as MusicBrainz Picard matches each file by acoustic fingerprint, and beets does the same from the command line. Is there an MP3 auto tagger that is always right? No, so check the album before you save.

Yes: this page is a free MP3 tag editor Mac OS X and macOS users can run in Safari or Chrome with nothing to install, so it works as an MP3 metadata editor for Mac, Windows and Linux alike. Prefer a native app? Kid3 is a free macOS (OS X) ID3 tag editor, and Mp3tag sells an MP3 tagger for Mac.

Two ways. On a Mac, MP3 tags open right here in the browser: drop the files, change the fields, save. Or, on a Mac, edit MP3 metadata in the Music app for songs in your library: select a song, choose Song, then Info (Cmd+I), and open Details. Just like iTunes on Mac OS X, edit MP3 tags there and Music writes them into the file. On Mac OS, MP3 tag changes made either way show up in every player. The browser route adds batch numbering and renaming, the quickest way to edit MP3 metadata, Mac or PC, and to modify MP3 tags. Mac users get the same steps as everyone else.

Select the files, open Tools, then Remove, and choose Remove all tags before you download. That is the quickest way to remove metadata from MP3 files or clear MP3 metadata before you share them, a one-click MP3 metadata remover: the tag goes, the audio stays. To remove MP3 metadata only in part, remove just the old ID3v1 block or leftover APE tags, delete single fields, or use Remove the cover only as an album art remover.

No. The tag and the audio are separate parts of the file. EzVisualizer rewrites only the tag and copies the audio frames byte for byte, so the sound is identical to the original. File size changes only by the size of the tag and the cover.

ID3v2.3 is the safest choice: it is the ID3 tag MP3 editors and players have supported longest, including older Windows versions and many car stereos. ID3v2.4 adds UTF-8 text and a few new frames, and modern players read it too. EzVisualizer writes v2.3 by default and v2.4 if you switch it on.

Yes, for the basics: you need no extra software to edit MP3 tags on Windows. As a metadata editor, Windows File Explorer handles the title, contributing artists, album, year, genre and track number: right-click the file, choose Properties and open Details. That Windows metadata editor shows the metadata any MP3 editor wrote, but it cannot add cover art, lyrics or ISRC, and it has no renaming or numbering tools.

FLAC, M4A and MP4 yes; WAV not yet. A FLAC file stores Vorbis comments and an MP4 tag is a set of iTunes-style atoms, the same structure M4A uses, and EzVisualizer writes each one in its own format. So it is a FLAC tag editor and an MP4 tag editor too: drop those files with your MP3s, edit metadata of a FLAC file or edit MP4 tags in the same table, and the audio is copied untouched. M4B audiobooks work as well; fragmented MP4 files can be read but not saved. WAV keeps its labels in its own chunks, which we do not write yet; until then Kid3 (Windows, macOS, Linux) works as a WAV metadata editor and a FLAC metadata editor, or a metadata editor for WAV and almost anything else.

Spotify does not let you edit the tags of songs it streams. For your own files played through Local Files, Spotify shows whatever the file itself says, so the fix belongs in the file. Correct the title, artist and album here, then add the folder under Settings, Local Files.

Yes. On Linux, MP3 tags can be edited here in Firefox or Chrome, and on a Chromebook in the built-in browser. As an MP3 tagger online, it needs nothing installed and runs anywhere a current browser does, including phones, though a big screen is easier for batch work.

No. This MP3 metadata editor online reads, edits and saves the files inside your browser tab. Elsewhere, MP3 tagging online usually means an upload; here no file is sent to a server, so unreleased songs and private recordings stay on your device. The one exception is the optional MusicBrainz search, which sends only the artist and title you type.

Yes. Drop the files and the editor works as an audio metadata viewer: every field, the cover and the ID3 version are shown. Close the tab without saving and nothing on your disk changes.

Yes, completely: batch editing, cover art, MusicBrainz search, renaming and ZIP downloads, with no account and up to 1,000 files per session.