###################### # # # README for EasyTAG # # # ###################### Last update: 2003/07/13 AUTHOR: ======= Jérôme Couderc E-mail: j.couderc@ifrance.com Home Page: http://easytag.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216 DESCRIPTION: ============ EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux. FEATURES: ========= Currently EasyTAG supports the following: * View, edit, write ID3 tags of MP3, MP2, FLAC files (supporting ID3v2 and ID3v1.x specifications), Ogg Vorbis files, and APE tag for MusePack and Monkey's Audio files, * Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the fields (using masks), * Ability to rename files from the tag (using masks) or by loading a text file, * Process selected files of the selected directory, * Ability to browse subdirectories, * Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving..., * Can set a field (artist, title,...) to all other selected files, * Read file header informations (bitrate, time, ...) and display them, * Undo and redo last changes, * Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into uppercase, downcase, ...), * Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program, * CDDB support (from http protocol), * A tree based browser, * A list to select files, * A playlist generator window, * A file searching window, * Simple and explicit interface!, * French, German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Czech, Spanish, Polish and Romanian translation language, * Written in C and uses GTK+ 1.2 for the GUI. INSTALLATION: ============= Please see the file INSTALL. LICENSE: ======== This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. (It sould be included in this package in the file COPYING ) CONTACTS: ========= Visit the homepage at: http://easytag.sourceforge.net or: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216 for more informations and new releases. Please mail any bug reports, complaints, suggestions and comments to the main author Jerome Couderc <j.couderc@ifrance.com>.