Starting with Meta v2.3, you can use a new filter syntax that lets you target specific fields, exclude terms, and combine expressions — making it easy to build complex filtering queries quickly. For example: "artist:Chic, album:Savoir Faire, -mp3" New: - New Filter Syntax - New Filter Recents Menu & Management Enhancements & Fixes: - Fixed a bug in the "Import Artworks" feature, that prevented it from working properly. - Renamed “Move to Bin” to “Move to Trash" for System Coherence - Renamed the "Tools" menu, into "Tag" - Moved "Rename Files" and "Arrange Into Directories" commands to the "File" menu. - Overall UI fine tuning

New: - New “Import Artworks” feature, allows to batch-fetch images according to a filename pattern Enhancements & Fixes: - The “Browse” artwork feature now points by default to the common parent of the currently selected files - Find & Replace now offers to save specific searches, instead of offering recents - Find & Replace now offers a button to re-launch a search - Some “Title Case” rules have been refined - Fixed a bug in “Track Numbering” where the counter would reset when album names are empty

Enhancements: - Track Numbering now offers an option to reset the count, when the files are in another directory or have a different album name - Track Numbering now offers assigning disc numbers/total

What's New? - Added support for syncing changes with the Doppler Music Library - Added a preference to specify your preferred music library app (targeted by the 'Add to Library' feature)

New: - New string transform called “Sentence Case” is available - Tag Finder is now fully part of Meta Enhancements & Fixes: - Text-editing popovers (comments, lyrics…) now automatically save edits - Text-editing popovers (comments, lyrics…) can now be dragged and detached for consecutive editing - Fixed slash characters wrongfully being converted to colons when using the “Compose Tag” tool

Enhancements & Fixes: - Fixed a bug when Importing CSV - Tag Finder: Added custom filter options - Tag Finder: Fixed parsing of indexes and sub-tracks, Handle Artist-per-track, added the “Track-Total” tag

Enhancements & Fixes: - Fixed numerous layout issues on macOS Monterey - Fixed table header drawing in dark mode on macOS Monterey - Fixed missing allowed file types in the open panel - Updated the tag engine “Taglib” to latest v1.12. (Mostly enhanced stability & Improved tolerance of tag-data chunks)

Enhancements & Fixes: - Fixed batch-pasting to file names (preserves file extensions) - Cover Finder: Fixed fetching “XL” sized artworks - Tag Finder: Ignore headings data in tracklist - Tag Finder: Fixed year number formatting - Tag Finder: Added a “To Selection” matching mode - Tag Finder: Save the selected track's tags when double clicking a row in the tracklist

What's New? - Find tags and artworks online using the Discogs database Enhancements: - New and refreshed toolbar icons - Writes FLAC Artworks before Vorbis Artworks, for enhanced compatibility - Stopped overriding the URL of the save panel when exporting tags/playlists, thus preserving the most recently used location - Format guessing in “Import Tags” is now avoided when format is too big, to avoid possible interface sluggishness Fixes: - Fixed the display of “File Info” tokens in recent patterns - Fixed “Move to” toolbar item recents management - Fixed a crash possibly triggered by autocomplete - Fixed a crash when tag-extracting booleans and date types

Enhancements: - Added the ability to use “File Info” tokens in “Rename Files” Fixes: - Fixed flawed MP4 Movement Number/Total Implementation - Fixed "Replace all" failing when multiple results are found at different ranges for the same file & tag - Fixed the look of toolbar icons under older macOS releases - Fixed a missing localization

Enhancements: - Reworked and unified tag context menus - Added a helpful 'Find & Replace' option to tag-context menus, that updates the search scope accordingly - Added an option that allows for keeping folder tags when using “Create Directories”

What's New: • Refreshed App Icon Enhancements: • Changed JPEG image export extension to “.jpg”, for maximum compatibility • More straightforward Find & Replace interface • User preferences now allows for turning off completions entirely • Preferred startup folder now uses “None” initially, instead of “Last Used” Fixes: • Fixed a crash when editing • Fixed a drawing issue in converters, where pattern drawing would be clipped to the first displayed token • Fixed issues with recording custom genres • Fixed “Size to Fit” when double-clicking a column separator not accounting for the preferred list size • The example string in “compose tag“ is now forced to single line mode

What's New: • Native support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs (ARM64). • New find & replace sidebar with search scopes, pattern matching, and recents. • New “Import Tags” command, to extract tags from CSV files. • New command to “Refresh Tags”, ie. re-read metadata from disk. • New artwork thumbnails in the list view, for easier lookup. • Added “.ape” file format support • Added “Description” tag Enhancements: • Faster rendering of the list view • Autocomplete now also suggests currently listed metadata Fixes: • Fixed Meta setting itself up as default for many audio formats • Fixed a bug where view selector would fail to operate under older versions of macOS • Fixed a bug that prevented editing the value of track and disc total in the sidebar

Warning: This is a temporary rollback to v1.9.9, because a sneaky window bug has crept in. If you updated to v2.0 and the software runs fine, feel free to ignore this update.

What's new? - Native support for Apple Silicon M1 Macs (ARM64). - New Find & Replace sidebar with: search scopes, pattern matching, and recents. - Import tags from CSV files. Enhancements: - New command to “Refresh tags” (ie. re-read metadata from disk when changed externally to Meta) - Artwork thumbnails in the list view, for easier lookup - Faster rendering of the list view - Added “.ape” file format support - Added “Description” tag - Added “Previous” option to the startup directory selector - Autocomplete now also suggests currently listed metadata Fixes: - Fixed Meta setting itself up as default for many audio formats - Fixed view selector tab issues for machines ante macOS 11 - Fixed a bug that prevented from editing the "total" part of track/disc numbers in the sidebar

Fixes: - Fixed unreachable Cover Finder - Fixed autocomplete from completing in the middle of a word - Fixed tag-targeted paste wrongfully also pasting artworks, when present - Fixed a bug when using “special” copy

Enhancements: - Added ability to “Remove From Recents” in token fields recents menu - Toggle sidebar visibility using the view selector segmented control Fixes: - Fixed cropped artwork view (pre Big Sur) - Fixed “Add to Library” failing silently (pre Big Sur)

What's new? - Optimised for macOS Big Sur - Added support for “Work” and “Movement” Tags - Added user preference for iTunes/Music.app metadata compatibility mode (Affecting grouping and work tags) - New popover assistant editor for “Length” Tag - Batch-convert between Traditional & Simplified Chinese Enhancements: - Display artwork properties when hovering - Added a “Browse” button to the artwork toolbar - Discrete progress indicator in lower right corner of the info-bar (macOS 10.15 and later) - Refactored Column Management Menus - Automatic playlist export name - “Copy” now also copies data as CSV - Shiny new default view configurations for first timers Fixes: - Fixed a bug that caused artwork writing to fail silently on first run - Fixed failed progress reporting when performing “Move” operations - Fixed missing zero-padding when using “Compose Tag” - Fixed composing an empty Tag of numeric type resulting in an interpretation error - Fixed tracks under 1 minute long not displaying leading zeroes - Targeted an incorrect Vorbis/APE key for “Track Title Sort”

What's new? - New optional info-bar Enhancements: - Added recents to startup folder selector - Preserve formatting when batch copy-pasting - Strip newlines from pattern-generated strings - More explicit “Copy” labels Fixes: - Fixed display of multiline text in sidebar - Fixed purging of window sessions on quit - Fixed “Convert to Tags” badly extracting comma-separated text - Fixed an access failure issue causing a unintended display of the “Remove directory” popup

What's new? - Added support for macOS Catalina / Music App - Easier column management functions, with customisable default configuration - New transform command: “Trim Whitespace” - New transform command: “With Underscores” (alternate command to “Sans Underscores”) Enhancements: - Added ability to compose numerical tag types using “Compose Tag” - Added artist name completion to Cover Finder's search field - Better German Localisations - Implemented coloring of token-based example text Fixes: - Fixed a possible hang on app start - Fixed “add to iTunes” to work with “Music” app, and renamed function to “Add to library”

What's new? - Meta is now available in Russian - Added a preference to customise the app's editor & list size Fixes: - Fixed showing the artwork's menu when Control-Clicking - Fixed showing error messages when files are detected as flawed - Fixed “To titlecase” rule: Keep “the” as lowercase - Fixed folder configured to “open at startup” wrongly pushed to the top of the recents menu

What's new? - New “Swap Tags” utility - Added a general preference to always select all files added Enhancements: - You can now batch copy/cut/paste from the artwork view's context menu - Items with a similar name in the recents lists can now be more easily dissociated Fixes: - Fixed a crash when showing the context menu for the artwork column - Fixed “Remove” command not being available when selected artworks differ - Fixed a bug that caused completion to malfunction - Fixed batch-pasting from Microsoft Excel - Fixed general preference pane randomly being too tall

Enhancements: - “Add to iTunes” operation now reports its progress and is cancellable Fixes: - Fixed a bug that caused a '2' to be appended to filenames when renaming with only capitalisation changes - Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented dragging images from Safari - Fixed showing the artwork view's context menu when using control+click

Fixed: - Fixed insertion point color in dark mode - Fixed popover appearance in dark mode - Fixed coalescing of tag write operations

What’s New? - Ready for macOS Mojave and Dark Mode - Major Performance Enhancements - Safer app thanks to “Hardened Runtime” Enhancements: - Faster tagging: all tag writing is now done in the background while you make changes - Faster “Fit Columns” and auto-complete - Ability to use audio-properties when composing file names or file paths - Ability to specify path components (folders) when exporting artworks, using a forward slash delimiter - Context menu “Cut” & “Copy” actions now include artworks by default - New “Paste Tags” and “Paste Artwork” context menu actions - New “Bit Depth” audio property Enhancements to “Create Directories” and “Move to Directory” features: - Option to reveal created folders on completion - Option to move non-audio files - Option to automatically remove empty folders Fixes: - Fixed “Add to iTunes” on macOS Mojave, to handle POSIX-style paths and new security restrictions - Fixed copying wrong artwork representation, causing images to be smaller when pasting outside of Meta - Fixed failing progress sheet dismissal when the parent window was hidden - Fixed targeting the wrong directory when prompting for sandbox access - Re-allowed usage of path modifiers in “Create Directories” and “Rename Files”