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I’m still searching for decent ID3-tag manipulation software for MP3 recordings. There are hundrends to choose from, but almost all of them seem designed to tinker with a very small range of values. Typically just artist, genre, album, and year. The ID3 format is capable of so much more, particularly things such as a “play count” to track which podcasts you have listened to, or large text like song lyrics or podcast “show notes” and “transcript".

I’ve recently downloaded ID3-TagIT - THE ID3-Tag-Editor for MP3. This is freeware (they suggest a paypal donation), and runs on Windows. The authors seem to try hard to open up almost all the ID3v2 tags. My only criticism is that some of the tags are still “second class citizens", For example, although I can configure a selection of tags to list next to each file in the MP3 browser, I can’t choose from the full set that can be edited - so no “play count” shown next to the file name :(

I still need to spend more time with this application to find everything its capable of, but if you want a powerful tag editor that understands the widest range of tags I’ve found so far, give it a spin.