Meta 2.5.0 for Mac – Advanced Music Tag Editor
Meta is a highly polished, professional metadata editor built for Mac users who want total control over their growing digital music libraries. If you have ever downloaded a batch of audio files only to find messy titles, missing album art, and incorrect track numbers, you know how frustrating it can be to fix them one by one in standard media players. Meta solves this by offering a native, spreadsheet-like interface that allows you to manage metadata across thousands of files simultaneously. It supports almost every audio format imaginable, from standard MP3s and M4As to high-fidelity FLAC and WAV files, making it an essential utility for DJs, audiophiles, and digital archivists.
Typical Mac workflow
Organizing a messy music folder is incredibly fast with Meta. You start by dragging a folder of untagged songs directly into the app. Using the batch editing tools, you can instantly apply the correct Album and Artist name to all tracks at once. If the filenames look terrible (like “track_01_final_mix”), you can use the rename function to automatically convert the metadata into clean filenames, or vice versa. Next, you drag a high-quality album cover from your web browser directly onto the artwork panel; Meta automatically scales, crops, and compresses the image to keep your overall file sizes low. Finally, with a simple keyboard shortcut, you can push the freshly updated tracks directly into your Apple Music or iTunes library.
Key Features
- Write and edit metadata across hundreds of audio files simultaneously using a fast, intuitive batch tag editor.
- Supports a massive range of audio and tag formats including MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, ID3v2.4, and APE tags.
- Instantly generate correct track numbers for an entire album with automated sequencing tools.
- Rename audio files dynamically based on their metadata, or extract metadata directly from existing filenames.
- Utilize advanced Find and Replace functions with full regular expression (regex) support for complex string editing.
- Scale, crop, and compress album artwork automatically upon import to prevent your music files from becoming bloated.
- Change typecases globally to fix capitalization errors, remove annoying underscores, and strip unwanted tags completely.
- Add updated tracks directly to iTunes or refresh their existing library data instantly with built-in keyboard shortcuts.
What’s New
Version 2.5.0:
- Introduced the Mixed Editor, a powerful new feature that allows you to visualize and edit tag values on a per-group basis.
- Added a highly requested text-transforms menu item for applying global capitalization and formatting changes instantly.
- Sanitized data extraction in the Tag Finder to automatically remove trailing disambiguation numbers from fetched results.
- Fixed an issue regarding the add tokens menu not displaying correctly on complex multi-monitor setups.
- Resolved a scenario where specific tag configurations would duplicate themselves upon application startup.
- Fixed a recursive lock crash to improve overall application stability during heavy batch processing.
Technical Details & System Requirements
- Title: Meta 2.5.0
- Developer: Benjamin Jaeger
- Compatibility: macOS 10.10 or later
- Language: Multilingual
- Includes: K’ed by TNT
- Official Website ↗
