Guide

Mp3tag for Mac: Alternatives

If you come to the Mac from Windows, you probably look for Mp3tag first. But your music library on a Mac often lives in Apple Music, and that changes things. Here is what exists and what each tool is made for.

Mp3tag itself

Mp3tag is a tag editor, originally for Windows and now also in the Mac App Store. It edits files directly: you load a folder, select tracks and change the fields.

Two free, open source tools

• MusicBrainz Picard runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. It fills in tags from the MusicBrainz database.
• Kid3 also runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and is a classic editor for tags in files.

Both work on files in folders. If your folders are well kept, they do the job.

Without extra software

Apple Music can do the basics too: select a track, open its info and change the fields, or select several tracks at once. For a small collection that is enough. For an old library from CD days with missing covers, duplicates and albums in several spellings, it gets tedious.

What Truffle takes off your hands

Truffle is made for the Apple Music library on a Mac. It recognizes tracks by sound, checks eight sources and suggests every fix field by field with its source. Nothing is written until you confirm, and every change can be undone. Truffle can also work only on folders of local files that you choose. It is free to try: analyze 100 tracks, no feature locked.

Which tool fits?

• You keep files in folders and edit them by hand: a file editor like Mp3tag or Kid3.
• You want tags filled in from a database: MusicBrainz Picard.
• Your library lives in Apple Music and has grown over the years: Truffle.

Updated: 8 October 2026