Audio tag editor & remover
View, edit or completely remove the tags in an MP3, FLAC, M4A or OGG file — title, artist, album, year, track, disc, genre, comment, composer and cover art. The audio itself is copied byte for byte, never re-encoded. Everything happens in your browser; the file is never uploaded.
Open Audio tag editor & remover →What is the audio tag editor and remover?
A free tag editor and metadata remover for MP3, FLAC, M4A and OGG files that runs entirely in your browser. Drop a track in and it reads whatever tags it finds — ID3v2 and the older ID3v1 in an MP3, the Vorbis comment block in a FLAC, the iTunes atoms in an M4A, the comment header in an OGG Vorbis or Opus file — and shows them in one set of fields: title, artist, album, album artist, year, track, disc, genre, comment, composer and the embedded cover art. Edit any of them and save a re-tagged copy, or strip every tag out and save a clean one. It also prints which tag blocks it actually found, so you can see what a file is carrying before you decide. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed.
How to use Audio tag editor & remover
- Load the file — Drag an MP3, FLAC, M4A or OGG onto the drop zone, or click to browse. The format is detected from the file's own bytes rather than its extension, and the badge next to the filename tells you which tag system is in play.
- Check what is already there — The line under the filename lists every tag block found — for example 'ID3v2.3, ID3v1, APEv2'. A file can carry several at once, which is why a title you thought you had deleted sometimes comes back in a different player.
- Edit, or wipe — Change any field and use Download to save a tagged copy. Wipe all fields clears the boxes without touching the file, so you can see what you are about to write before you write it.
- Or remove everything — Choose the clean copy option from the Download menu to strip the tags entirely. It asks first, then writes a copy with the metadata gone — including the encoder's vendor string, which is itself a fingerprint.
Frequently asked questions
Is the audio re-encoded when I save?
No. Only the metadata region is rewritten; the audio itself is copied byte for byte. Saving is lossless no matter how many times you do it, which is not true of tools that decode and re-encode the file. In an MP3 the MPEG frames are untouched, in a FLAC the audio frames are, in an M4A the mdat is, and in an OGG every audio page is copied verbatim.
Why does an old title sometimes survive editing in other tools?
Because an MP3 can hold more than one tag at once. ID3v2 sits at the front of the file, but ID3v1, APEv2 and Lyrics3 sit at the very end, and many editors rewrite the front while leaving the trailers alone. A player that prefers the trailing tag then shows the stale value. This tool removes all of them when it saves, so the copy you get carries only what you can see on screen.
What exactly does the clean copy remove?
For an MP3, the ID3v2 tag and every trailing tag, leaving raw MPEG frames. For a FLAC, the Vorbis comment and all embedded pictures, keeping only the stream information and the seek table — those describe the audio and carry nothing personal. For an M4A, the whole iTunes metadata block. For an OGG, the comment header cannot be deleted because both Vorbis and Opus require it, so it is written empty, vendor string and all.
Will the file still play afterwards?
Yes. Resizing metadata is only safe if the rest of the file is corrected to match, and that is done: an M4A's chunk offset table is patched when the header changes size, and an OGG's pages are renumbered and their checksums recomputed. Where a file uses a layout this cannot safely rewrite — a fragmented MP4, a chained OGG stream — the tool refuses and explains why rather than handing back something broken.
Can I use it on a WAV file?
Not yet; it says so rather than guessing. WAV metadata lives in a RIFF LIST/INFO chunk, which is a different structure from the four supported here.
Tips
- Track and disc numbers accept either a plain number or the 'number/total' form, such as 3/12, and each format stores it the way that format expects.
- Cover art must be a JPEG or PNG. In a FLAC or OGG it is stored as a picture block, so the image's real dimensions are written alongside it rather than zeros.
- Stripping the tags also clears the vendor string that encoders leave behind, such as the libFLAC or libopus version — useful if you are sharing a file and would rather not advertise the toolchain that made it.