MP3 ID3X - 3.0.3

The revisions are worthwhile, unfortunately my 20,000+ song library has now been converted to AAC. Still a great app, but I've gotten used to just using iTunes ever since MP4 has been introduced. With MP4 support the $18 might be worth it, but as it stands, it doesn't even do what iTunes can already do for free.

The (available as freeware) CMM that comes with this app has
been incredibly useful to me and if I had not already purchased
ID3X's competition ( It did not look like this app was being updated
any more at the time of my purchase ) I would surely invest in ID3X.
Which is an excellent little Tag editor in it's own right.

VT has the price of this at $15, but on the developers site it's $18
plus 'tax's' makes it close to $21 dollars. At fifteen I'll buy, but for over
twenty - no-way.

I notice that ID3X appears to read and write the entire MP3 file TWICE each time you update a single ID3 tag! When the file is stored locally on the same computer, this is no problem; but when the file resides on a remote computer (accessed via a mounted AFP volume,for instance), this causes considerable slow down in speed, especially via 802.11b. Because of this, I cannot use my powerbook to change ID3 tags for my music residing on my server. : /

Some other notes:

* The "back" button in the directory listing portion of the main window seems odd. I expected it to go "up a directory", but instead it seems to keep track of where I have been previously, each step off the way. I think an "up one directory" button would be MUCH more useful! Please consider adding such a button, and possibly adding key mappings too.

* Type-ahead in the Genre field is very useful; but I notice if you start typing with a lowercase letter, and a matching Genre is found that starts with an uppercase letter, type-ahead does not change your lowercase into an uppercase. If you hit Enter without correcting that first letter manually, you'll end up with a all lowercase Genre. I think ID3X should correct the case for you.

Otherwise, the program works very well, and is extremely useful.

there's a buggy", like when you played a file and then want to save the tags it will say "the file is either locked or damaged" (then play it again and hit "save" right away), but besides the few little problems you can encounter, its tags encoding is a lot better than any other program. For some special symbols it won't give you the same symbol on QuickTime player or iTunes and on ID3X, but I think ID3X encoding is the right one.

me directly and I would send you a pre-release with unicode support.