The infotainment system in my truck uses metadata tags to organize all of the music. I’ve the past few years I have thought I was doing something wrong with the new music I was adding, but apparently the Music app’s edits of the data were not “sticking “.

I found a large number of music I had added but was not available to play in the Unknown folder.

Are there any free, or cheap Mac apps for editing the data?

  • @henfredemarsEnglish
    4•5 months ago

    I’ve used MusicBrainz Picard for this task on Mac in the past.

    • nocturneOP
      1•5 months ago

      This has a really screwy interface. After playing with it a bit I am unable to see where I can manually change/add tags (I add the release year to all I of my album tags), only download them. It added a lot of interesting tags, such as each instrument and who is playing it.

      Something I will play with a bit more.

      • Skelectus
        2•5 months ago

        Not sure if this is still relevant, or if the mac version differs, but try right click on the tag area.

        • nocturneOP
          2•5 months ago

          I will check that. I did find an app that tags the way I want, but had issues with accents in track titles.