Are you sick of audio players that think they know how to organize your music for you? Do other media libraries choke and die after a mere 10,000 songs? Do you often find yourself thinking Boy, I wish I could grep my music? Or are you just looking for something that can tag your audio files?

Quod Libet & Ex Falso

Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It's designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don't worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file. And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports -- Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.

Quod Libet easily scales to libraries of thousands of songs. It also supports most of the features you expect from a modern media player, like Unicode support, multimedia keys, and tag editing.

Ex Falso is a program that uses the same tag editing backend as Quod Libet, but isn't connected to an audio player. If you're perfectly happy with your favorite player and just want something that can handle tagging, Ex Falso is for you.

Ex Falso and Quod Libet have been tested on many GNU/Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. Anywhere with GTK+ 2.10, Python, and an OSS or ALSA compatible audio device should be able to use it.

Looking for Mutagen?

Mutagen, the pure-Python library for reading audio metadata, is now an independent project on Google Code. Visit the new site for downloads, issues, and source access.