MusicTagger

Enhance your Music Library experience by adding tags and comments to your songs (1). Find your favourite songs later by searching for your tags or keywords directly in the Music app using Smart Playlists.

Anytime you’re listening to your music, use the configurable global shortcut (ctrl+alt+cmd+T by default) to quickly show MusicTagger and find details about the currently playing track and add or remove tags and comments.

Use the Timed Comments feature to add custom comments at specific times of the playing track and quickly jump to that part at anytime. This can be used, for instance, to mark an instrument solo section, different movements or passages in long tracks or whatever message that you want to link to that moment of the song.

How it works?

Tags are stored in the track’s Grouping field with a specific format where each tag is wrapped by angle brackets (<tag1><tag2>…).

This makes it convenient when searching tags within the Music app either by using smart playlists or by entering any tag in the search field since Music app also indexes the Grouping field.

Also, tags can coexist with any other existing Grouping content while there’s enough space to store them (2). In case the tags don’t fit the remaining space MusicTagger will inform you before saving so you can chose between discarding some tags or removing the existing grouping to make them fit.

One of the benefits of storing the tags in the grouping field (rather than using playlists to group these tracks for instance) is that the tags are stored in the file’s metadata so they are automatically included in backups or when copying the media to another system and also they are added back when importing the file again to another Music Library.

Timed Comments are stored along the existing Comments field and thus, they’re also saved in the User’s Music Library and in the ID3 file tags when the file is available (non-streaming).

Features

• Works both with iTunes and the new Music app (introduced in macOS Catalina)
• Mini-player UI with keyboard shortcuts for each control/action
• Configurable global shortcut
• Assign keywords to any track (Tags).
• Automatically suggests tags from the existing ones in the Library while typing
• Add custom comments at specific times of any track (Timed Comments).
• Click on any Timed Comment to play from that position.
• Quick access for changing the rating and love status of the current song
• Tags and Comments are synchronized to other devices when using the iCloud Music Library
• Search for the current playing song on different online sites such as Discogs, Google or Youtube.
• Dark mode support

Notes

• (1) Only works with tracks added to the user Music Library. Does not work with Apple Music tracks unless they’re added to the user iCloud Music Library.
• (2) The Music Library has a limitation of 255 characters in the Grouping and Comment fields to store content. Considering this, short-named tags and comments are preferred to avoid hitting this limit.