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Tune Instructor Brings Advanced ID3 Editing to Your Mac
Posted by Adam Pash at 6:30 AM on September 3, 2008
Mac OS X only: Free application Tune Instructor adds advanced ID3 tag editing for your iTunes library through a smart third-party utility. The iTunes helper boasts features like search and replace for your tags, or it can set ID3 tags from a filename or set filenames from ID3 tags. It can automatically search and embed album art or lyrics—though I ran into issues with German-language lyrics sometimes showing up rather than English. The application has a lot of potential, and works well overall. I did run into a few peculiarities when testing it, but overall it offers advanced, worthwhile ID3 editing beyond what iTunes offers by default. Tune Instructor is freeware, Mac OS X only.
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dogcow
Posted 7:37 AM 3/9/08
Interesting. Does it give you access to all Metadata? (Like iTunes Plus embedded owner info?)
dogcow
MikeWas
Posted 11:05 AM 3/9/08
Leopard only.
MikeWas
2-7offsuit
Posted 11:20 AM 3/9/08
@MikeWas: Welcome to last year :P
2-7offsuit
johnsmith1234
Posted 12:29 PM 3/9/08
There must be a mistake, there's no way the Mac that I bought a year ago with Tiger already has an obsolete operating system. After all it's only Microsoft that "forces" upgrades on people.
Just like when Vista came out a year and a half ago, all new applications released since then are only written for Vista, forcing everyone to upgrade from XP. I can't believe it because they already forced an upgrade to XP almost SEVEN years ago. This is getting tiring.
johnsmith1234
taziar
Posted 2:51 PM 3/9/08
Um. Still using XP, and all the software I use has had updated versions for XP. I may upgrade to Vista's successor. Until then, XP all the way!
taziar
andrew
Posted 8:54 PM 3/9/08
@johnsmith1234 Nobody is forcing you to upgrade. 10.5 just had a lot of changes under the hood that made development way easier. A lot of devs don't bother with the backward compatibility since they're coding only to scratch their own itch.
I, for one, am happy to see this tool, since I'm still using TriTag. TriTag is great, but it's also PPC-native, and slow as molasses on big operations.
andrew
caedus
Posted 10:27 PM 3/9/08
@johnsmith1234: you bought a mac last year with tiger? You got ripped off.
caedus
EnzoFX
Posted 1:43 PM 4/9/08
Wonderful, I was just wondering what I was gonna do about my ID3 tagging now that my primary desktop is now os x.
<3 you lifehacker
EnzoFX
Bruce_A
Posted 5:08 PM 4/9/08
@dogcow: No. This is pretty lightweight stuff. Most of what it does can be done via Applescript from within iTunes.
Bruce_A
little_pixel
Posted 9:15 PM 3/9/08
Hello peoples,
no panic, I provide the older version on my page, too: www.tune-instructor.de
On the right side you can download the version 1.7.3, which is developed for the Mac OS 10.4.
Please check it out. Sadly, that there is no link to my orignial webpage.
cu
little_pixel
silver-bolt
Posted 8:55 AM 3/9/08
There is also the (not totally free) MP3 ID3X. A god send in bulk changing non-itunes media catalog id3 tags (Without that stupid iTunes rating tag that gets added). Does everything from removing tags completely, to albums, to lyrics (not automatic :/) to recursive smart editing.
silver-bolt