Read next: How to record Desktop Screen using VLC Player.You will often come across occasions when you find the need to snip off parts of your videos to make them suitable for posting. Simply follow the steps mentioned in this article and you will be able to edit audio and video tags in VLC. If you are an ardent user of VLC media player, you don’t require separate software to edit audio and video metadata. It will save all the edited tags in your media file. It supports JPG, PNG, and GIF image formats to add a cover image from a file.Īfter editing audio/ video tags, click on the Save Metadata option. Simply right-click on the cover art that is present below the Fingerprint button and choose Download cover art or Add cover art from file option. You can click on any of the results and then press Apply this identity to the file option to automatically add metadata tags to the song.Īdditionally, you can also add an album cover image to an audio file. This feature basically checks online database to identify tags for an audio file and then provides you the fetched results. It also provides a handy Fingerprint (audio fingerprinting) feature. It lets you edit title, artist, album, genre, date, publisher, copyright, encoded by, language, comment, and a few other tags. Now, you can manually edit the general metadata of the current media file.

It basically displays general tags, statistics, codec information, and some extra metadata of the media file. You can also use CTRL+I hotkey to quickly open up the media information window. This will open up the current media information of your media file.

Next, go to the Tools menu and click on the Media Information option. After that, launch the VLC media player and import an audio or video file for which you want to modify tags use the File > Open File option to do so. If you don’t already have VLC installed on your computer, you can download it from and then install it on your PC.

Here are the basic steps to edit metadata of audio and video files in VLC: Edit Audio or Video Metadata Tags in VLC #

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