Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2096 from 2003/2/24
From: po-RNO
I'd like to know that too. So far I've only found buggy ones.
ID3 tags seem to be generally quite a mess. When editing those with different programs, you may end up with stack of duplicate tags in the file. I once started to wonder why some files didn't seem to take the edits in use, but it sticked to old ones no matter how I tried to remove the old tags and edit/add new ones. Then I checked the file in binary mode and saw that there were many different ID3 tag versions... both ID3v1 and ID3v2 (of course), but that wasn't enough, tags were saved 3 or 4 times there, and when I tried to remove/edit those it only changed the last ones, but the first one popped up with players always.
There's one unreleased MorphOS native editor from a well-known MorphOS developer, which could be quite good if finished :) I've been using test version of it occasionally. Works quite nicely if you know how to avoid couple things. But the problem with it is that you can't clear all the old tags with it if you have previously mentioned kind of files.
Then I found
MP3TagEditor which can remove both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags (you can repeat the removing until files are clear in multiple tags situation). It's 68k native and quite crash-prone, but if you're careful, and reboot after you've done, it can be used mostly successful. Check the log and learn to avoid the worst hits :) This is what I've been using now...
Couple others found from Aminet were quite horrible...
In old times I also used internal editor in AMPlifier (music player), but it only supports ID3v1 tags...
Anyway, if anyone knows or finds any better software for this, please tell!