GreeenAudio is my own customized ID3 tag editor. It only works with MP3s, but it will display album artwork and lyrics, along with all the important ID3 tags. It allows you to easily edit any tag on the display, of course, and to add album artwork simply copy some to the clipboard and click “Copy”. GreeenAudio will resize it and save it to the file. If you want to download lyrics for the song, just click the button! You can also open a directory in batch edit mode, where ID3 tags that are common to an entire album are displayed. That way, you can change them all at once. GreeenAudio will automatically tell you which tags are not synchronized for every song in the album, and if you hover over the tag with your mouse, GreeenAudio will even tell you what the discrepancies were. In batch edit mode, I also added a tool to “Fix Tracks”, which places all the track numbers in the two-digit format (e.g. 02). After you’ve done that, you might want to try the “Organize” tool, which helps you move and rename all the MP3 files into an organized directory structure (Music Directory / Artist Name / Album Name / 01–Title.mp3). Of course, I’ve taken special characters into consideration when naming the files, so periods and slashes, for example, will be replaced by underscores.
I’ve tried to make GreeenAudio visually pleasing while still being functional, so you can use it to view the lyrics you downloaded even if your media player wont do it. In fact, you can even play your music from GreeenAudio! However, I didn’t actually incorporate a player, I just sent the command to your operating system to play the file for you with the default player. That technique will work on Windows and Ubuntu, at least.
Although there are other, better tools for ID3 tag editing, few of them support lyrics. In addition, most other ID3 tag editors will allow you to keep several duplicate tags on the same MP3. If you’ve used a few different music applications, you might accumulate 3 or 4 album art images (probably two of them being the wrong cover) and 20 comments on your MP3 file. GreeenAudio will strip your files of all that garbage. The only tags on your MP3s will be those you can see on the screen.
Disclaimer
GreeenAudio 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.
Download
Download the Windows binary and the source from here: GreeenAudio-0.1.zip.
Windows Installation
There is no installer for this executable and in fact it will run straight from the directory it resides in, so put it wherever you want. You have to unzip it first, though. Just open the Windows_Build directory and double-click on the file called GreeenAudio.exe. I’ve successfully run this program on Windows XP and Windows 7. If it doesn’t launch, it may be because it couldn’t find a DLL called MSVCP90.DLL. If you have Visual Studio C++ installed, you should already have that library. Otherwise, download it from Microsoft – Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable. All you really need is to have MSVCP90.DLL in the same directory as GreeenAudio.exe, but I am not allowed to distribute that library. With Visual C++ installed, GreeenAudio should launch properly. If not, please run it from the command line and post your error for me.
Run It From Source
I wrote this in Python, an interpreted language, so you can run this directly from the single source file if you have all the dependencies installed:
Ubuntu users already have Python and (maybe) wxPython 2.8 installed. Get the other two dependencies with sudo apt-get install python-imaging python-mutagen.
