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Last update: 2007/05/07


AUTHOR:
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  Jérôme Couderc
  E-mail:    easytag@gmail.com
  Home Page: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
             http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216


DESCRIPTION:
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EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg 
Vorbis, Speex, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files. Its simple 
and nice GTK2 interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.


FEATURES:
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Currently EasyTAG supports the following:


  o View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files
    (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis and Speex files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/AAC 
    (MP4/AAC tag), MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files (APE tag),
  o Can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track
    Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL
    and Encoder name,
  o Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the
    fields (using masks),
  o Ability to rename files and directories from the tag (using masks) or by
    loading a text file,
  o Process selected files of the selected directory,
  o Ability to browse subdirectories,
  o Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving...,
  o Can set a field (artist, title,...) to all other selected files,
  o Read file header informations (bitrate, time, ...) and display them,
  o Auto completion of the date if a partial is entered,
  o Undo and redo last changes,
  o Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into
    uppercase, downcase, ...),
  o Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program,
  o Remote and local CDDB support for manual or automatic search,
  o A tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album,
  o A list to select files,
  o A playlist generator window,
  o A file searching window,
  o Simple and explicit interface!,
  o Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, 
    German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, 
    Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian translation languages,
  o Written in C and uses GTK+ 2 for the GUI.


INSTALLATION:
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Please see the file INSTALL.


LICENSE:
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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:
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Visit the homepage at: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
                   or: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216
for more informations and new releases.

This version is currently being maintained in an external version
control repository. If you wish to make a contribution please see the
HACKING document. You may still of course mail the original author any
bug reports, complaints, suggestions and comments to the main author
Jerome Couderc <easytag@gmail.com>.

