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

12 Responses to “iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger”

  1. ★ bcdef.org ★ » Blog Archive » Using Ruby to migrate last.fm tags to iTunes Says:

    [...] 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 [...]

  2. Trevor Says:

    When is the PC version coming out?

  3. Snolly Says:

    I think that Snow Leopard broke the application. Any chance we’ll get an update soon?

  4. bloovie Says:

    Version 0.6 .zip file returns an error upon unarchiving: ” ! Unable to unarchive (Error 1 – Operation not permitted). “

    Corrupted file?

  5. adam Says:

    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.

  6. kate Says:

    When I use this app, it gets stuck on “Starting iTunes Multi-Genre Tagger…” and won’t do anything. Any ideas?

  7. Andrew Q Says:

    PERFECT! If you had a donation method, I would be sending you some money right now.

  8. Matt B Says:

    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!

  9. asava Says:

    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!

  10. bcdef Says:

    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.

  11. Martin Says:

    Hello,

    I would love to have this working on my new macbook.

    Willing to pay if it works !

    a freaky mp3 tagger

  12. erik Says:

    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…

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