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Last update: 2003/07/13


AUTHOR:
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  Jérôme Couderc
  E-mail:    j.couderc@ifrance.com
  Home Page: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
             http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216


DESCRIPTION:
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EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis,
MusePack and Monkey's Audio files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes
tagging easier under GNU/Linux.


FEATURES:
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Currently EasyTAG supports the following:

  * View, edit, write ID3 tags of MP3, MP2, FLAC files (supporting ID3v2 and
    ID3v1.x specifications), Ogg Vorbis files, and APE tag for MusePack and
    Monkey's Audio files,
  * Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the
    fields (using masks),
  * Ability to rename files from the tag (using masks) or by loading a text file,
  * Process selected files of the selected directory,
  * Ability to browse subdirectories,
  * Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving...,
  * Can set a field (artist, title,...) to all other selected files,
  * Read file header informations (bitrate, time, ...) and display them,
  * Undo and redo last changes,
  * Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into
    uppercase, downcase, ...),
  * Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program,
  * CDDB support (from http protocol),
  * A tree based browser,
  * A list to select files,
  * A playlist generator window,
  * A file searching window,
  * Simple and explicit interface!,
  * French, German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese,
    Ukrainian, Czech, Spanish, Polish and Romanian translation language,
  * Written in C and uses GTK+ 1.2 for the GUI.


INSTALLATION:
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Please see the file INSTALL.


LICENSE:
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

(It sould be included in this package in the file COPYING )


CONTACTS:
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Visit the homepage at: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
                   or: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5216
for more informations and new releases.

Please mail any bug reports, complaints, suggestions and comments to the 
main author Jerome Couderc <j.couderc@ifrance.com>.
