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Easytag build for Mac OS X

Introduction

Features

Screenshots

Downloads

Documentation

Disclaimer

Please note that I am not affiliated with the easytag project.

THIS IS NO OFFICIAL BUILD.

This build is made from the GPL’d Easytag code and is provided under the GPL.

It comes with no warranty at all and it is provided :

“AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.

For further information look in the “LICENSE” file in the Distribution.

Introduction

This is an attempt to produce an easy to use binary package of EasyTAG for OSX.

“EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.“

Unfortunately there is (as of January 2010) no official binary package of EasyTAG for Mac OS X. There is however the possibility to install it via Fink, darwinports or compile it completely from Source.

However most mac users are used to have a ready to use binary, which they just drag to their Application folder. I like this distribution form too.

So I set up a build environment and build this package myself using jhbuild and ige-mac-bundler. Here it is for you to download an use.

Features

» Easy to use Mac Application Package.
» Provided in standard mac disc image format.
» All supported libraries are available and compiled in.
» Runs natively on your desktop without the need for the X-Server, using quartz-GTK.

Screenshots

A picture says more than a few words :

EasyTAG Disk Image

All possible audio format support is compiled in

EasyTAG OSX in action

Downloads

Easytag.dmg
alpha 3 [07.05.2010, 10.4-10.6 (Intel)]
(10,4 MB)

Easytag 2.1.6 with the “manual cddb search fix patch” build alpha2

To comply with the GPL I provide here the GPL and LGPL Source Packages of the libraries I used to build EasyTAG.

easytag-2.1.6patched.tar.bz2
gtk+-2.18.2.tar.bz2
glib-2.22.2.tar.bz2
gettext-0.17.tar.bz2
intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2
pango-1.24.5.tar.bz2
cairo-1.8.8.tar.bz2
atk-1.28.0.tar.bz2

Patches :
Patch 01 : About Dialog

Release History

alpha3 [07.05.2010]
» Made the build really 10.5 and 10.4 compatible (Intel only)
– Removed libwavepack support (temporarily)

alpha2 [25.04.2010]
» ~~Made the build 10.5 and 10.4 compatible~~
» Fixed Logo, and Changes file in the About dialog
» Fixed About dialog Easytag Homepage URL launching

alpha1 [16.02.2010]
Initial Release

22 Responses to “Easytag build for Mac OS X”

martin, on November 26th, 2009 at 10:49 pm said

hey looks great!!!

i am intrested.

can you post a downloadlink?

regards, martin
Pierre, on February 7th, 2010 at 7:51 pm said

Hello there, i’m also interested in trying your binary as i couln’t manage to get easytag working with macports on OSX 10.6.

Regards,
marco, on February 8th, 2010 at 8:39 pm said

I will see what I can do in the next few days to make an alpha build available
marcoschuh.de » An Easytag build for OSX, on February 17th, 2010 at 10:47 am said

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Dan Bryant, on March 10th, 2010 at 7:56 pm said

Thank you SOOOOO much for putting this together. Where is your “Donate” button
Dan Bryant, on March 10th, 2010 at 8:03 pm said

App crashes when I launch it (10.5.8). So I tried it in Terminal and fot this:
./EasyTAG-bin
dyld: unknown required load command 0×80000022
Trace/BPT trap

Any Ideas?
marco, on March 10th, 2010 at 8:27 pm said

Hello Dan,

sorry it doesn’t work right away …
oh yeah I do have an idea.
It seems I have linked against 10.6 only as a build target,
so the dynamic library loader can’t load some essential stuff.
I try to figure it out tomorrow when I’m back on my build machine and make the build 10.5, 10.6 compatible.

Marco
timelessbeing, on April 11th, 2010 at 7:05 pm said

If possible, please build it for OS 10.4 as well.
I’m using a 1st gen MBP and I’m not ready to upgrade my OS yet.
Piero Colonna, on April 13th, 2010 at 6:09 am said

Hi, Thank you very much! It would be very nice to get it running on Mac but…I also have 10.5.8 and it crashes right away when I try to launch it. I would be most grateful if you can make a version that is compatible also with 10.5.8…Thanks a lot!
marcoschuh.de » Easytag Build for OSX – alpha 2 released, on April 25th, 2010 at 5:52 pm said

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marco, on April 25th, 2010 at 5:55 pm said

the new alpha 2 is out which should be compatible with 10.4 and 10.5, please test it out and leave your comments or send me email feedback

Thanks
timelessbeing, on April 25th, 2010 at 10:49 pm said

It’s not launching for me.
If I run the easytag-bin file in the package contents, I get this:

Last login: Sun Apr 25 14:47:44 on ttyp1
/Volumes/Easytag\ for\ OSX/EasyTAG.app/Contents/MacOS/EasyTAG-bin; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
macbook:~ Joe$ /Volumes/Easytag\ for\ OSX/EasyTAG.app/Contents/MacOS/EasyTAG-bin; exit
dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/gtkdev2/gtk/inst/lib/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Volumes/Easytag for OSX/EasyTAG.app/Contents/MacOS/EasyTAG-bin
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap
logout
[Process completed]
marco, on April 26th, 2010 at 2:30 pm said

thanks all for the prompt and detailed feedback,
I will look into this error and then post a new version which hopefully works …
marco, on April 29th, 2010 at 12:07 pm said

OK, I think I figured it out …
Here is the new alpha Version to test :

Easytag alpha3_test1

It *SHOULD* support 10.4 and 10.5 now.
But it has no wavpack support anymore atm.
Please test it and give Feedback.

For the technical interested :

It is some dyld Load command issue, somehow the loader command LC_DYLD_INFO was incorporated in my libwavepack.dylib even though I think I passed the correct compile and linker options to libwavepack … the other libraries work fine with the same options, but perhaps it was only stupid me …
Whatever, for the moment libwavpack has been removed but I hope the rest works now well with 10.4 and 10.5 – I try to figure wavepack out some time.
timelessbeing, on May 5th, 2010 at 1:27 am said

Yay! It is launching now. Thanks.
marco, on May 5th, 2010 at 7:16 pm said

Great, I’m glad it works now
will soon release alpha3 then
marcoschuh.de » Easytag Build for OSX – alpha3 released, on May 7th, 2010 at 11:49 am said

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Ian, on May 9th, 2010 at 6:02 pm said

Marco – thanks very much. App loads perfectly. EasyTAG does seem to be an easy way of keeping FLAC files up-to-date on a Mac; MediaMonkey doesn’t run on Mac, and Songbird does some weird things to the metadata, so easytag looks the best so far. Thanks again for the build.
marco, on May 12th, 2010 at 1:31 pm said

Thanks for the feedback and the appreciation
straycat, on May 19th, 2010 at 12:06 am said

hey marco, i wrote you an email before and you were very helpful.
just to add up that your work is very much appreciated.
after 4 years owning a mac, at last i can tag my music.
i love you man. keep up the great work.
egasp, on July 16th, 2010 at 10:56 am said

Thank you so much. This is fantastic. Easytag is great and I appreciate your effort to make this available for the new mac os.
netti, on August 6th, 2010 at 9:20 pm said

yippie! easytag under mac. Thanks buddy