Important changes

This chapter describes important changes and news. Please have a look at the history of changes for a complete list.

Mp3tag v2.46

Explorer Shell Extension

The right-click menu extension is now realised by a dedicated Shell extension which improves opening files and directories via the context menu also for large amounts of files.

Improved user-defined field mappings

The user-defined mappings for field names introduced in Mp3tag v2.45 now have an own help page and were further improved with regard to mapping multiple field names to one user-defined field name.

Improved Tag Sources dialog

The Tag Sources dialog now also supports reordering of files via drag and drop allowing to quickly rearrange files according to the titles. Yes, we made it work with multiple files too :-) The sorting and selection state of the Tag Sources search results are now also remembered if you decide to go back and pick another result.

Portable settings

Previous versions of Mp3tag stored toolbar and panel positions in the Windows Registry. This changed with this release so that Mp3tag now stores all configuration data in its own configuration files.

Mp3tag v2.45

Improved Filter

The filter now supports filter expressions where it is now possible to combine filter criteria and use format strings for filtering. The filter now also comes with a history, providing easy access to your often-used filter expressions.

User-defined field mappings

Mp3tag now supports user-defined mappings for field names. This is particularly useful in case you need to make field names consistent across different types of tags (e.g., BAND in ID3v2 and ALBUM ARTIST in FLAC). The feature is available via 'Options > Tags > Mapping' where you can create mappings for a specific tag type (APEv2, ID3v2, MP4, VorbisComment or WMA), provide a Source name (Mp3tag's internal name) and a target name (your preferred field name).

Multiline fields for Tag Panel

Are you adding lyrics, artist biographies or other text-intensive information to your songs? If so, you can now add multiline custom fields to the Tag Panel via Options > Tag Panel.

Mp3tag v2.43

Automatic Updates

This version comes with support for automatic checking for updates on program startup. You can decide whether you want to get notified on stable final releases only, or whether you want the freshest stuff from our compilers (Beta versions). If you don't want Mp3tag to check for updates you can disable it completely at 'Options > Updates'.

Horizontal Tag Panel

While it was always possible to drag the Tag Panel and dock it above or below Mp3tag's file list, the input fields are now arranged more effectively. It's also possible to disable the directory switcher from the Tag Panel.

New Translations

Mp3tag is now also translated to Danish, Hebrew, Vietnamese, and Ukranian language.

Mp3tag v2.34 - Support for cover art / Import from Amazon.com

Support for cover art

With the new release Mp3tag supports embedded cover art for files with ID3v2 tags, TTA- and WMA files. You can add cover art via the

extended tag dialog at or Alt + T.

Import from Amazon.com

Besides the freedb support, Mp3tag now has the ability to get album information from Amazon.com. Just choose the small arrow from the right of the Icon freedb

and select Amazon.com. You'll get a list of matching items and can choose the album to import the tags (and cover art).

The Amazon.com import uses Mp3tag's incredible web source framework. There are even more web sources available at the Web Source Archive on the Mp3tag forums.

Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.

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Mp3tag v2.33 - Support for Unicode

Probably the most import change and new feature in this version is the support for Unicode through the whole program. Mp3tag writes ID3v2 tags in Unicode format (UTF-16) by default now, but there are still some programs, portables or car radios which have problems with ID3v2 tags stored in Unicode format (though this is specified within the ID3v2 standard). To use Mp3tag with this programs or devices, simply enable the option Always write ISO-8859-1 tags instead of UTF-16 at Options > Tags > Mpeg. After that, just save the tags again by clicking File > Save tag

or by using the Ctrl + S hotkey.

If you have problems displaying tags with characters from other charsets (like Cyrillic) in Mp3tag, the tags are probably stored in a system codepage instead of Unicode or ISO-8859-1. To convert these tags from a specific codepage to Unicode, simply create a new action Convert codepage, select the appropriate tag field(s) and choose the codepage from the drop-down list.

Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.

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Mp3tag v2.27 - New syntax for scripting functions

The last versions had major problems with the backslash and the double quotes characters within scripting functions so we had to reimplement the part which is responsible for evaluating the built in functions.
The names of the functions did not change - you don't have to learn new function names or placeholder names.

What has changed?

There is no need to put parameters of function in double quotes anymore.
There is no need to leave the $ character from nested function calls.
There are (hopefully) no problems with backslahes and double quotes anymore.
The scripting functions $meta and $join are obsolete now.

Are there any special characters with specific functionality/limitations?

[ ... ] Displays contents of brackets only if at least one of fields referenced inside has been found.
' Outputs raw text without parsing. This will output the contained string and ignore all reserved characters (%,$,[,]) in it.
$%[]You have to put the single quote around these reserved characters if you want to use them unparsed.
'You have to put the single quote before this reserved character if you want to output a singe quote.

Examples for conversion

$num("%track%", 2) is now
$num(%track%,2)
file://$replace("%_folderpath%","\","/") is now
file://$replace(%_folderpath%,\,/)
%_tag_read% [%_tag%] is now
%_tag_read% '['%_tag%']'

Please visit the Mp3tag forums if you have other questions regarding the new release.

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