Meta

What is Meta?

Meta is a native Mac app for editing audio metadata and organizing local music collections. It helps music collectors, DJs, archivists, and anyone with downloaded or ripped audio files clean up tags, add artwork, and keep libraries consistent across players and library apps. Meta supports batch editing, so you can update titles, artists, albums, track numbers, and cover art across many files at once instead of fixing tracks one by one. It also includes tools to rename files from tags, build folder structures, extract metadata from filenames or paths, and import or export playlists and CSV tag data. The app is designed for hands-on library management on macOS and works with a wide range of common audio formats and music-library workflows.

Key features

• Edit tags and cover art across many audio files at once
• Find album artwork and tag information online
• Rename files and build folder structures from metadata rules
• Extract metadata from filenames, folder paths, or other tags
• Use find and replace, including regular expressions, for cleanup tasks
• Import and export playlists and CSV tag data

Safety overview

Status: Mostly safe

Meta is a legitimate music-library utility for macOS. Access to your music files and folders is normal for its purpose because it needs to read and update audio metadata and artwork. Changes to tags, filenames, and folder structure can affect how your library is organized in other apps, so it is wise to work on copies or keep a backup before making large batch edits.

Recommendation: Keep Meta if you actively manage local music files or need batch metadata editing on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other apps, but consider keeping backups of any music folders you reorganized with it in case you want to undo past file-naming or folder changes.

Common paths

• /Applications/Meta.app

Related apps

• Music
• Doppler

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