Kid3 (audio tagger & file manager)

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Kid3 (audio tagger & file manager)

#1 Post by Midas »

[Mod note: this is the official forum topic for Kid3 -- https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2859]

Kid3 (http://kid3.sourceforge.net/) looked interesting if nothing else for being multi-platform OSS (meaning various Linux flavors, including Android, MacOS and Windows) and by its broad format coverage; but like most Qt based software this days, it proved neither portable nor stealth -- settings are saved to 'HKCU\Software\Kid3', 'HKCU\Software\kid3.sourceforge.net' and 'HKCU\Software\QtProject'.
http://kid3.sourceforge.net/ wrote:If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you are looking for.
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The latest Kid3 release (currently v3.4.0) can be downloaded from http://kid3.sourceforge.net/#download.

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Re: Kid3 (audiofile metadata manager)

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One possible route to portability: https://sourceforge.net/p/kid3/feature-requests/68/
There is an environment variable KID3_CONFIG_FILE which can be set to the path of an INI-file. This gives you several possibilities:

You can set KID3_CONFIG_FILE in your user or system environment variable settings.

Or you can use a batch file like this:

@echo off
set KID3_CONFIG_FILE=kid3.ini
start kid3.exe %*

Or you can create a shortcut which executes something like this:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "set KID3_CONFIG_FILE=kid3.ini&start kid3.exe"

Then you may want to change the icon to kid3.exe and set a minimized start.

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Re: Kid3 (audiofile metadata manager)

#3 Post by Midas »

Cool! :)

I'd favor the second method (batch) but for good form I would prefer to use 'SETLOCAL' instead of 'SET' (for an explanation, please see http://ss64.com/nt/setlocal.html; moreover, for an explanation of the meaning of "%*" in the third line, check http://www.robvanderwoude.com/parameters.php#NT).

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Re: Kid3 (audiofile metadata manager)

#4 Post by webfork »

A new version is out with some nice changes:

http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/ ... 76677.html

I haven't tested this but I'll go ahead and bump this over to Submissions.

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Re: Kid3 Portable

#5 Post by smaragdus »

The developer of Kid3- Urs Fleisch, was kind to add kid3.exe --portable parameter:
I have implemented a "--portable" command line parameter. You can find a development version kid3-git20161121-win32.zip in https://sourceforge.net/projects/kid3/f ... velopment/
I have tested Kid3 version git20161121- when I start it with kid3.exe --portable parameter the program creates an INI file (kid3.ini) in program folder. I think that this method to run Kid3 in portable mode is easier and handier than via a batch file. Thanks to webfork for opening the issue and to the developer for paying attention to users' requests, implementing an easy way to run Kid3 as a portable program.

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Re: Kid3 3.4.4

#6 Post by smaragdus »

Kid3 at version 3.4.4, changes:
Release Name: 3.4.4

Notes: This bugfix release fixes the import of durations when importing from file or clipboard, and building with Chromaprint 1.4. New features include a portable mode storing the configuration file in the application folder, copying of images to the clipboard and an MPRIS D-Bus interface for the audio player on Linux.

Changes:
Fri Dec 23 08:33:40 CET 2016 Urs Fleisch
* Release 3.4.4
* New:
  • + If the first command line argument is "--portable", the configuration is stored in a file kid3.ini in the program folder.
    + Image data can be copied to clipboard.
    + MPRIS2 D-Bus interface for the audio player.
* Improved:
  • + "Import CSV" can import to different files if no matching file paths found.
* Fixed:
  • + Importing of durations from text formats (file/clipboard).
    + Building with Chromaprint 1.4.
Once again, thanks to webfork for opening the ticket and to the developer (Urs Fleisch) for implementing the requested

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kid3.exe --portable
option. To celebrate the first Kid3 stable version (3.4.4) which supports this parameter I added Kid3 to the database.

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Several Kid3 links:
Kid3 at Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... Kid3.shtml
Kid3 at MajorGeeks - http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/kid3.html
Kid3 at Freeware Files - http://www.freewarefiles.com/Kid3_program_107392.html
Kid3 at AfterDawn - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio ... editor.cfm
Kid3 at CodecPack - http://codecpack.co/download/Kid3.html
Kid3 at AlternativeTo - https://alternativeto.net/software/kid3/
Kid3 at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid3

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Re: Kid3 3.4.4

#7 Post by webfork »

smaragdus wrote:Once again, thanks to webfork for opening the ticket
Sure thing :) Thanks for posting that.

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Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager

#8 Post by webfork »

I missed this when looking into this program before but wanted to note a related, cross-platform, and portable tagging program over at PA: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_vide ... d-portable

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Re: Kid3 3.4.5

#9 Post by smaragdus »

Kid3 at version 3.4.5, changes:
Sat Feb 18 19:21:55 CET 2017 Urs Fleisch <ufleisch@users.sourceforge.net>

* Release 3.4.5

* New:
  • + Settings to include and exclude folders in the file list.
* Improved:
  • + Use HTTPS for imports where possible.
    + Much faster expanding of the file list by avoiding GUI
    updates during the operation.
    + Faster filtering by avoiding GUI updates during the
    operation.
    + Reduced memory usage when filtering.
    + Updated Czech and Dutch translations.
* Fixed:
  • + Import from MusicBrainz.
    + Rate limit for import from Discogs.
    + Do not display multiple frames of same type as different.
    + Application not responsive when using a new filter after
    filtering a huge number of files.
    + Application not responsive when loading the tags after
    selecting a lot of files, is now abortable.
    + Terminate kid3-cli if EOF is received.

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Re: MusicBrainz Picard 1.4

#10 Post by smaragdus »

@webfork
webfork wrote:I missed this when looking into this program before but wanted to note a related, cross-platform, and portable tagging program over at PA: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_vide ... d-portable
MusicBrainz Picard at version 1.4- from the 1.4 I can see that there lots of improvements but I cannot stand the new icon and logo so version 1.3.2 will be the last one for me.

The old icon:

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The new icon:

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For me the new modern one looks terribly ugly and is absolutely unbearable. Modern flat ugliness is everywhere.

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Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager

#11 Post by Midas »

FTR, I'm still getting traces in the registry after running Kid3 with the portable parameter -- there's an empty key at 'HKCU\Software\kid3.sourceforge.net'.

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Re: Kid3

#12 Post by smaragdus »

@Midas
Are you sure that the registry key you mentioned wasn't created by a version of Kid3 when the program was not yet portable?
I checked Kid3 version 3.5.0 and Kid3 version 3.6.1 starting it with the following parameter:

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kid3.exe --portable
and these version didn't create registry keys (under Windows 8 x64).

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Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager

#13 Post by Midas »

Not sure, no. I have been running updated versions of Kid3 with the same parameter. But I did find that key... :?

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Re: Kid3

#14 Post by smaragdus »

@Midas
You may delete the key, run the latest version of Kid3 with the portable parameter and check if the key is re-created. I re-checked the registry and didn't find that key.

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Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager

#15 Post by Midas »

Already did. Didn't recheck, though. Nothing there. :|

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