Guide

Edit Metadata in Apple Music on Mac

Title, artist, album, genre, year, artwork: everything the Music app knows about a track can be changed. For a few corrections, that's done quickly. With a library that has been growing since the iTunes days, though, a few corrections can easily turn into a weekend.

Editing one track

• Select the track, then choose “Get Info” from the menu or with a right-click.
• The “Details” tab holds title, artist, album, album artist, composer, genre, year and bpm, among others.
• In the “Artwork” tab you set an image. Under “Sort” you decide how a name is sorted, under “Options” you'll find things like “Volume Adjustment”, and under “File” you can see which file you're dealing with.

Many tracks at once

If you select several tracks and choose “Get Info”, the app asks you to confirm and then shows a shared window. Whatever you enter there applies to all selected tracks; fields you leave alone stay as they are. For an album with the wrong year or a genre spelled several different ways, this is the quickest route.

Where it gets tedious

• No preview. The app doesn't show beforehand what will change on which track, and it doesn't remember what was there before.
• Nothing gets checked. Whether a year is right or an album is spelled correctly is something you have to know or look up yourself.
• Albums fall apart. If the album or album artist differs on individual tracks, the app shows one album several times. You'll only find this if you go looking for it.
• Artwork only from Apple. “Get Album Artwork” finds images for albums Apple knows. For ripped CDs and rare editions, it often comes up empty.
• Duplicates by name. “Show Duplicate Items” compares names and artists, not whether it's really the same recording.

Other tools

File editors like Mp3tag, which is also available in the Mac App Store, and database taggers like MusicBrainz Picard, free and open source, edit the files themselves. They're designed for folders of music files.

What Truffle takes off your hands

Truffle picks up exactly at these points. It cross-checks eight sources, suggests one value per field, including artwork up to 1000 px, and in Bulk edit (⌘B) shows every line in the preview before anything is written. Every change you apply can be restored, one by one or as a session; only deleting is something Truffle doesn't take back. With duplicates, the file stays on your Mac, and nothing gets deleted without asking you first. To try it out, the app is free: analyse 100 tracks, write 20, no feature locked.

Updated: 8 October 2026