Yate 5.0

Yate is an easy to use macOS application that offers you the proper tools for tagging and quickly organizing your music collection.

The utility is able to work with MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, DSF, and FLAC files, and you get to import tracks for processing, or simply link items from your iTunes music library.

Well structured music tag editor that can deal with various types of metadata

Yate is able to import metadata for your tracks from online sources, such as MusicBrainz, or Discogs, but you can also manually edit each entry.

The app enables you to change the credits and album details, the artwork, the lyrics, allows you to store private characteristics, such as the owner or the purchase price and so on.

The best part is that, if you link items from your iTunes library, the changes will be reflected almost instantly within the media player. This is very useful because you will be able to organize your tracks by different criteria with minimal effort.

Automate the database management by using actions scripts, and share your tagged tracks with your friends

Yate comes with a collection of over 100 actions scripts that can be easily employed to streamline certain tasks: the app comes with a small collection of actions already integrated with the app interface, but you can easily create new ones by using the predefined functions.

For your convenience, Yate offers you the possibility to export your current project in order to be able to share the newly created metadata database with your friends in no time.

Straightforward software solution  for tagging audio tracks with minimal effort

Yate offers you the possibility to create a comprehensive metadata database by quickly importing information and even artwork from online sources.

At the same time, the app enables you to store personal details, such as the purchasing info, your private ratings, can memorize if you want to skip the track when shuffling, and so on.

What’s New in Yate 5.0

Note: Ready for macOS 10.15 Catalina

Bug Fixes:

• The Episode ID field’s synthesize function was not working correctly.
• The MusicBrainz wizard will now correctly import multiple Composers, Lyricists, Remixers and Conductors.
• Yate was using non standard frames to store Movement Name, Movement Number and Movement Count. At least they weren’t the same non standard names that iTunes uses. This was irrelevant if you are using iTunes and auto-exporting the Classical Metadata. v5.0 reads both mappings and writes the more standard ones.
• The Set as Key Column menu item in database viewers was not always working.
• Opening database files via File>Open or Finder Open-With as opposed to dragging them in, potentially closed open unmodified files.
• The Access Discogs and Access MusicBrainz statements’ custom table context menu access to the import settings manager was disabled.
• Fixed a bogus Log>Validation Errors message in MPEG-4 files with video and long description fields.
• If a number of files were selected of which only some were linked, Refresh iTunes would display errors for the files not linked.
• The Beatport Importer could hang on a network error.
• The Beatport Importer now silently ignores 404 errors when retrieving artwork.
• The test used to determine if Safari is the default browser did not work on Mac OS 10.9.
• Full changelog available here.

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