exfalso ☆

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Description:
Music tag editor

Type: Cask | Latest Version: 4.4.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: audio tag-editor music metadata id3

Install: brew install --cask exfalso

About:
Ex Falso is a cross-platform music tag editor and library organizer built on the Quod Libet framework. It provides a powerful interface for batch editing metadata across large music collections, supporting numerous audio formats. The tool excels at cleaning up inconsistent tags and managing complex library structures.

Key Features:

Batch tag editing with find and replace functionality
Support for multiple audio formats including MP3, FLAC, OGG, and M4A
Advanced filtering and search capabilities
Automated tagging from online databases and file paths
Album art management and embedded cover art editing

Use Cases:

Standardizing metadata across a large, inconsistent music collection
Batch updating artist or album information for entire libraries
Organizing music files based on tag data and folder structures

Alternatives:

MusicBrainz Picard – Picard focuses on automatic acoustic fingerprinting and lookup, while Ex Falso provides more manual, precise control over tag editing.
Kid3 – Kid3 is a lightweight, Qt-based editor, whereas Ex Falso offers more advanced search/filtering and is built on the Quod Libet ecosystem.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Aug 30, 2025 10:34am	4.4.0	0	VERSION_BUMP	91fdb85d
Aug 5, 2025 2:17pm	4.4.0	0	VERSION_BUMP	eceb20d3