TAGs info

Program supports ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata. Some files may contain several tags at the same time.

Table of files and tags formats combinations:
File/Tag format Reading Saving Saving (Auto)
Advanced Audio Coding
aac
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 ID3v2
Monkey's Audio
ape, mac
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 APEv2
Free Lossless Audio Codec
flac
Vorbis Comments (ID3v2) Vorbis Comments Vorbis Comments
MPEG Audio
mp1, mp2, mp3
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2
MPEG-4
mp4, m4a, m4b, m4r
MP4/iTunes metadata MP4/iTunes metadata MP4/iTunes metadata
Musepack
mpc, mpp, mp+
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 APEv2
Ogg Vorbis
ogg
Vorbis Comments Vorbis Comments Vorbis Comments
OptimFROG(DualStream)
ofr, ofs
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 APEv2
Speex
spx
Vorbis Comments Vorbis Comments Vorbis Comments
True Audio
tta
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 ID3v2
Windows Media Audio
wma, asf
WindowsMedia metadata WindowsMedia metadata WindowsMedia metadata
WavPack
wv
ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv1, APEv2 ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 APEv2

You can select the desired mode to save or read information to/from multi-tagged files
Reading
ID3v1 Use only ID3v1 tag
ID3v2 Trying to use ID3v2 tag instead of ID3v1 tag
APE Trying to read the APE tag and after that the ID3v2 tag and after that the ID3v1 tag
Saving changes
ID3v1 Save or remove only ID3v1 tag
ID3v2 Save or remove only ID3v2 tag
APEv2 Save or remove only APEv2 tag
ID3v1+ID3v2 Save or remove ID3v1 + ID3v2 tags
APEv2+ID3v1 Save or remove APEv2 + ID3v1 tags
Complete Save or remove all TAGs at once
Auto Save or remove TAGs depending on file format

AUTO mode uses tag formats recommended by developers of media format.

Program reads tag-information only once and not refreshing it when you switched to another Tag mode. Press F5 to update view.

Program never deletes any unrecognized or unused tag fields.

Since version 4.9 TagScanner fully support Unicode (tags data, file names) on Windows NT/2000/XP systems and higher.
All tag standards except ID3v1, ID3v2 and APEv1 always save data in Unicode. ID3v1 and APEv1 tags don't support Unicode at all and ID3v2 tags can optionally save Unicode data (Always ON by default). If you interact with programs, portables or car audios which have problems with ID3v2 tags stored in Unicode just select option Never for ID3v2 unicode saving option.

ID3v2 tags stored in beginning of the file, so program needs to move all file data and that's why write process may take too much time at first time . OGG, WMA, MP4 files are recreated anew in most cases, that's why write process may take appreciable time for every change.



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