Yate
Yate is a macOS audio and video metadata editor for organizing, correcting, and managing tags in media libraries.
What is Yate?
Yate is a native macOS metadata editor built for people who want detailed control over the tags in their audio and video files. It helps music collectors, media archivists, and power users clean up library metadata, rename and restructure files and folders, and keep information consistent across large collections. Yate supports a wide range of media formats, including MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, Ogg, Opus, APE, WavPack, and several video-related formats. It includes advanced field editing, batch changes, actions and templates, and the ability to revert edits during a session. Yate also works with Apple’s Music and TV workflows by linking files and exchanging library-related information such as ratings and play counts. Published by 2ManyRobots, it is primarily used by serious media library managers who need more control than basic tag editors provide.
Key features
- Edit metadata across many audio and video file formats
- Batch-fix tags, filenames, and folder structures for large libraries
- Use multi-field editing tools for detailed metadata cleanup
- Run reusable actions and templates to automate tagging workflows
- Revert changes made during an editing session
- Link files with Apple Music or TV workflows and exchange library data
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Yate is a legitimate media-tagging application for macOS. It needs access to the files you choose to open so it can read and write metadata, rename media, and reorganize folders when you use those features. That level of file access is normal for a tag editor, but bulk edits can change many files quickly, so it is wise to test new actions or large renaming jobs on a small set first and keep backups of important media libraries.
Recommendation: Keep Yate if you use it to manage music or video metadata, especially for large or carefully organized libraries. If you no longer edit media tags on this Mac, you can remove the app, but any custom workflows, templates, and app-specific settings may need to be re-created later.
Common paths
/Applications/Yate.app
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