iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger adds descriptive metadata to your music. These descriptive tags are gathered from the Last.FM API (no user account necessary) and then written into the ‘Grouping’ field of your music file(s).
And wherefore? To break old habits. With the ‘Grouping’ column displayed in iTunes, this enables you to filter music by multiple categories, even very specific ones (i.e. “90s argentina indie”) from within the iTunes search feature. In this way you’ll find music you’d otherwise not think to listen to.
Here is what your ‘Grouping’ column will look like in iTunes afterwards:
Free as in beer. Source included. Enjoy.
Download (version 0.6)
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
April 21st, 2009 at 3:29 pm
[...] There’s now a newer version, and I’ve created a separate project page for it. As of version 0.6, it’s now a standalone OS X application (though the Ruby source is [...]
August 28th, 2009 at 9:22 am
When is the PC version coming out?
September 20th, 2009 at 5:05 am
I think that Snow Leopard broke the application. Any chance we’ll get an update soon?
October 10th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Version 0.6 .zip file returns an error upon unarchiving: ” ! Unable to unarchive (Error 1 – Operation not permitted). “
Corrupted file?
February 14th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Windows user here. I am going to bookmark this and hope that a windows version comes out. This program is exactly what I have been looking for.
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:53 pm
When I use this app, it gets stuck on “Starting iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger…” and won’t do anything. Any ideas?
March 7th, 2010 at 10:20 am
PERFECT! If you had a donation method, I would be sending you some money right now.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Quote: “When I use this app, it gets stuck on “Starting iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger…†and won’t do anything. Any ideas?”
I’m having the same problem. Using Snow Leopard and iTunes 9.1
Please update! This program is INDISPENSABLE!
I’d be donating if it worked!
April 11th, 2010 at 8:49 am
so i really like the idea of this project. after install i tried running the app and got this…
/Applications/iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger/iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger.app/Contents/Resources/script:183: uninitialized constant OSA (NameError)
Starting iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger…
don’t know what to do. any suggestions? thank you very much!
April 18th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Apologies everyone. It appears that this no longer works with 10.6 Snow Leopard due to problems with osascript. If I get the time, I will try to update this.
May 23rd, 2010 at 5:27 am
Hello,
I would love to have this working on my new macbook.
Willing to pay if it works !
a freaky mp3 tagger
May 23rd, 2010 at 7:28 am
Hangs on startup. Using snow leopard. Would LOVE to be able to get this to work. Would make my life so much better. Any ideas???
I get the same error as the asava:
/Applications/iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger/iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger.app/Contents/Resources/script:183: uninitialized constant OSA (NameError)
Starting iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger…