Yate is an application dedicated to people who are serious about tagging their audio ... and video files. The application will tag mp3 (includes mp2), m4a (AAC, ALAC), mp4 (AAC, ALAC, video), m4v, flac, aiff (aifc, aif), dff, dsf and wav files. Note that Yate being primarily an audio editor, will only tag video files which contain at least one audio track. Yate is especially proficient in its handling of the ID3 specification. The ID3 specification describes how tagging information is encoded and interpreted in mp3 files. There is very little in the ID3 specification that Yate does not implement.
Your audio and video files are important to you! Yate allows you to completely revert to your initial file contents and to back out of all changes you've made since selecting files to edit . . . in any order.
Yate allows the linking of files to iTunes, either by dragging files from iTunes or by using the link menu item. Once a file is linked, you can import or export rating, play count and other information between the two applications. You can even have Yate add new files to iTunes, automatically creating the link along the way.
Any file's metadata can be output to a text file or to a plist which is a Mac formatted XML file. Tagging information can also be imported from plist files.
All of your settings, customization and user defined components can be exported for backup or for sharing with other users. This is especially important when defining your own actions which you might want to share with others.
For more information, please read some of the topics found below. Context sensitive help for the current panel that you're viewing may always be obtained by using the Help>Help for current context menu item. You can even place an icon for this function on the completely customizable toolbar!
Access to our forum and to online resoures including sample actions, templates and additional documentation is available from the Help menu.
Happy Tagging!
Topics:
The Open Mode ... Controlling what gets opened
Multiple Items and Multiple Values
Previewing Tracks and Other Files
Automatically Running an Action When Saving Files
Alphabetic Case Transformations
Mapping FLAC comments to fields
Syncing Preferences Between Multiple Copies of Yate
Batch Processing, the Batch Processor Wizard & Data File Processing
The Custom Panel Editor Editor
Logging Data and the Log Viewer
Copying Metadata from One Album to Another
Linking and Adding Files to iTunes
iTunes, Classical Metadata and the Grouping Field
Using iTunes to Look for Missing Artwork
Authorizing Yate to Search Discogs
Authorizing Yate to Search Beatport
Apply Track Database Metadata Changes
Locating Missing Tracks in an Album
Duplicate Identification Using Track Databases
Deprecated Items:
Things you can do, but shouldn't
Reference:
Fields, Frames and Atoms - What's In and What's Out
Functions Affected by Modifier Keys
Regular Expression Metacharacters
Regular Expression Replace Template Format
Regular Expression Flag Options
The ID3 specifications can be found at: www.id3.org. Yate reads all ID3 formats and by default writes to the latest specification which is ID3V2.4. Yate can be configured to write to the ID3V2.3 specification. The Main Structure document describes the overall structure of an ID3 tag while the Native Frames document describes the components (frames) of a tag.
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