MetaEdit Plus — Advanced Tag Editor

Nothing is written until it has been reviewed.

This page describes MetaEdit Plus 2.0.0, published on 23 September 2026.

MetaEdit Plus is a metadata workstation for audio and video collections. It combines direct field editing with reviewed batch operations, complete artwork collections, filename automation, provider-assisted identification, library analysis, lyrics, chapters, loudness measurement and guarded automation.

Its principle is a single path to the file. Edits, artwork, lyrics, rules, imports and analysis results are proposals until they enter one staged review, and a write is checked before it begins and can be undone after it ends.

Editing

Open files, folders or playlists, check the rows that belong to the work, and edit one file with precision or many together. In Batch Mode only the fields you deliberately change are applied; an untouched blank never becomes a clear.

MetaEdit Plus editor with library, tag fields, embedded artwork, process log and pending changes — The editor, with pending changes at the right

Batch and per-file: Shared values across the checked files, or a separate staged state for each.
Fields: Five configurable sections: core, credits, release, identifiers and sorting, and technical values including ReplayGain.
Native tags: Custom and format-specific entries for ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, MP4, ASF and Matroska.
Search: File names and metadata expressions with Boolean operators, presence checks, comparisons and guarded regular expressions.

Review Before Write

The change set shows each file and each value that will change. Write Tags validates scope and eligibility first, reports failures per file, and preserves the fields, extended values and artwork it was not asked to touch.

MetaEdit Plus change review listing staged values per file — Change review

Staging: Editor values, artwork, provider choices, lyrics, ReplayGain, rules and imports all pass through one review.
Undo and redo: Up to twenty levels, capturing metadata, extended fields and the complete ordered artwork collection before each write.
Process log: A record of what was done, when, and with what result, with filters and selectable columns.
Refusal over loss: Where a container cannot hold a value, the operation is disabled rather than silently dropping data.

Identification

Auto Tag identifies a single recording by its acoustic fingerprint, or maps the files of an album to the tracks of a chosen release. It shows its confidence, its sources and its conflicts, and it stages nothing until you accept it.

MetaEdit Plus automatic tagging workspace with release matching — Release matching in Auto Tag

Identification sources
Source	Role
AcoustID	Acoustic-fingerprint lookup
MusicBrainz	Recordings, releases, editions and track mapping
Discogs	Optional catalogue evidence, with your own token
iTunes	Supplementary catalogue data and artwork

Text, Patterns and Rules

The tools for correcting a thousand files as carefully as one. Each builds a preview of every proposed change before anything is staged.

Find and replace: Literal or regular-expression replacement, whole-word matching, prefixes and suffixes, case conversion and whitespace normalisation.
File patterns: Tags from file names, file names from tags, and rearrangement of existing name parts, with collision checks and rollback.
Rule Studio: Conditions combined with All or Any, then ordered actions: set, copy, clear, transform, format and sequence. Rules are saved and exchanged as JSON.
Expressions: Fields, file properties, string operations, comparisons, arithmetic and Boolean logic in one expression language.

Library Care

Clean & Organize builds a resumable plan to normalise metadata and move or rename files, with conflict review and rollback. Library Health examines a collection and changes nothing.

MetaEdit Plus library health report — Library Health

Clean & Organize: Analysis, conflict review, destination review and commit are separate steps. A commit creates backups and rolls back if a later step fails.
Library Health: Unreadable tags, missing fields, album inconsistencies, numbering gaps, artwork differences, moved files and duplicates.
Persistent libraries: Chosen folders indexed locally, with named layouts for columns, order and sorting.
Field sets: Reusable values and artwork collections, container mappings and a validated profile backup.

Artwork, Chapters and Lyrics

The parts of a file beyond its text fields, handled with the same staging and the same care.

MetaEdit Plus artwork collection manager — The artwork collection

Artwork: Every embedded picture in stored order: add, replace, reorder, describe, inspect, export and remove without flattening the rest.
Chapters: Validated chapter editing for Matroska, WebM, MP4, M4V and MOV, with sidecar import and export.
Lyrics: Search, ranked by metadata and duration; plain and synchronised lyrics, staged or exported as TXT or LRC.
ReplayGain: Gated integrated loudness and ReplayGain 2 track and album values, staged as tags without altering the audio.
Video: Television and film fields and stream properties for video containers.

Transfer and Studio Automation

Metadata enters and leaves in open formats, and the same engine runs unattended for studio libraries. An automated job is review-only until a write is explicitly permitted twice: in the job and on the command line.

MetaEdit Plus Clean and Organize plan — A Clean & Organize plan

Import: Reviewed CSV and line-pattern text import, with matched, skipped and preserved values reported.
Export: CSV, JSON, HTML, tab-separated text and M3U playlists, written atomically.
Automation: Dry-run, commit and watch-folder jobs of up to 500 files per transaction, with backups and SHA-256 evidence of source and output.
Privacy: All editing works without an account. Optional preference sync is off by default.

In practice

Who it is for

Collectors

Bring a library to one standard of naming, numbering and artwork.

Labels and studios

Prepare deliveries with consistent credits, identifiers and release data, and prove what was changed.

Archivists

Audit a collection for gaps, inconsistencies and duplicates without altering a file.

Compatibility

Supported formats

The file types MetaEdit Plus works with in its current release.

Audio: MP3WAVFLACOGGOGAOPUSWVWMAAACM4AM4BAIFAIFFAPEDSFMKAMPCMPPOFROFSSPXTAKTTA
Video: MP4MKVMOVWMVM4VWEBM

Editions

Free to use

MetaEdit Plus is freeware. The complete application is available without payment.

MetaEdit Plus Freeware

Free

46 canonical audio tag fields and video container metadata
Batch editing, artwork, rules and native chapters
Indexed libraries, library health and CSV/JSON interchange

Install with Studio Hub

Everything included in MetaEdit Plus.
Feature	Included
Batch and per-file metadata editing	Included
Canonical audio tag fields	46 fields
Artwork collections	Included
Rules and filename patterns	Included
Persistent indexed libraries	Included
Native chapter editing	Included
CSV, JSON and playlist interchange	Included
Assisted tagging and cover search	Included
Library health and duplicate review	Included
ReplayGain analysis and lyrics lookup	Included
Reusable field sets and editor layouts	Included
Undo and redo	Included
Video container metadata	Included
Optional account preference sync	Included

Use is governed by the License Agreement.

Requirements

System requirements

Minimum

Windows 10 (64-bit), version 1809 or later
Dual-core x64 processor at 1.5 GHz
4 GB RAM
500 MB of free disk space, plus space for recovery snapshots
1280 × 720 display

Asked and answered

Can a batch edit be undone?

Yes. Supported writes capture the previous metadata and artwork first, and up to twenty levels are kept. Undo is a recovery feature and not a substitute for independent backups of valuable media.

Does MetaEdit Plus change my audio?

No. It writes metadata. ReplayGain analysis stages tags only; the audio is neither normalised nor re-encoded.

Do I need an account?

No. All editing works without one. Optional cloud sync is off by default and covers portable preferences only.

What does MetaEdit Plus cost?