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Kid3 (audio tagger & file manager)
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 5:50 am
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.
The latest
Kid3 release (currently
v3.4.0) can be downloaded from
http://kid3.sourceforge.net/#download.
Re: Kid3 (audiofile metadata manager)
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:29 pm
by webfork
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.
Re: Kid3 (audiofile metadata manager)
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:39 am
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).
Re: Kid3 (audiofile metadata manager)
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 7:35 pm
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.
Re: Kid3 Portable
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 11:55 am
by smaragdus
The developer of
Kid3-
Urs Fleisch, was kind to add
kid3.exe --portable parameter:
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.
Re: Kid3 3.4.4
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:09 pm
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
option. To celebrate the first
Kid3 stable version (
3.4.4) which supports this parameter I added
Kid3 to the
database.
Edit
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
Re: Kid3 3.4.4
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 6:00 pm
by webfork
smaragdus wrote:Once again, thanks to
webfork for opening the
ticket
Sure thing
Thanks for posting that.
Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 6:16 pm
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
Re: Kid3 3.4.5
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:33 am
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.
Re: MusicBrainz Picard 1.4
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:42 am
by smaragdus
@webfork
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:
The new icon:
For me the new modern one looks terribly ugly and is absolutely unbearable. Modern flat ugliness is everywhere.
Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 6:11 am
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'.
Re: Kid3
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:44 pm
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:
and these version didn't create registry keys (under Windows 8 x64).
Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 3:10 am
by Midas
Not sure, no. I have been running updated versions of
Kid3 with the same parameter. But I did find that key...
Re: Kid3
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 3:20 am
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.
Re: Kid3 - audio file metadata manager
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 10:08 am
by Midas
Already did. Didn't recheck, though. Nothing there.