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), m4b, m4r, m4v, flac, aiff (aifc, aif), dff, dsf, ape, wav, ogg (single stream Vorbis and Opus), Monkey's Audio (ape) and WavPack (wv) files. 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/Music/TV, either by dragging files from the application 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 the Apple applications, automatically creating the link along the way.
Audio folders and folders containing audio files can have their metadata exported to individual plist files (Mac formatted XML files) or metadata archives. Tagging information can also be imported.
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! Help>Quick Reference provides quick access to commonly referenced help pages. This includes the Help by Menu item which is the quickest means of finding help for the application's menu items.
Access to our forum and to online resoures including sample actions, templates and additional documentation is available from the Help menu.
Happy Tagging!
Topics:
Product Activation and Deactivation
What! No iTunes! Changes in Yate for the Music/TV Applications
Adjusting Column Display Attributes
The Open Mode ... Controlling what gets opened
Using Yate with Multiple Displays
Multiple Items and Multiple Values
The Multi-Value Delimiter, Fields and Application Lists
Previewing Tracks and Other Files
Import/Export and Metadata Archives
Automatically Running an Action When Saving Files
Delaying & Repeating Escape Processing
Alphabetic Case Transformations
Mapping FLAC/OGG comments to fields
Mapping APE tag items to fields
Syncing Settings Between Multiple Copies of Yate
Batch Processing, the Batch Processor Wizard & Data File Processing
Copying Metadata from One Album to Another
Interacting with iTunes/Music/TV
Classical Metadata and the Grouping Field
Importing Metadata to Single File Cue Sheets
Special Requirements for tracks purchased from eClassical
Apply Track Database Metadata Changes
Synching a Query Database with an Open Database Viewer
Locating Missing Tracks in an Album
Duplicate Identification Using Track Databases
Playlists and Playlist Staging
Manually Installing Required Components
Deprecated Items:
Things you can do, but shouldn't
Reference:
Functions Affected by Modifier Keys
ICU Regular Expressions (online)
Regular Expression Metacharacters
Regular Expression Replace Template Format
Regular Expression Flag Options
The ID3 specifications can be found at: id3.org. The Main Structure document describes the overall structure of an ID3 tag while the Native Frames document describes the components (frames) of a tag.
Online Documentation:
Renaming and Restructuring Files and Folders
Useful Links: