Audio Metadata Viewer
Audio Metadata Viewer
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Audio Metadata Viewer

Drop an audio file to parse, entirely in your browser, its metadata tags (title, artist, album, track, year, genre, lyrics, ReplayGain …) and technical parameters (codec, sample rate, bit depth, channels, bitrate, duration, lossless or not), plus the embedded cover art. Supports FLAC / ALAC / APE / WAV / AIFF / DXD / MP3 / AAC / M4A / WMA / OGG / OPUS / MP2 / DSF / DFF / AC-3 / DTS and M3U / M3U8 playlists. Everything runs locally; nothing is uploaded.

Drop or click to select an audio file

Coverage & how to read it

1. Supported containers

KindFormatsTag source
LosslessFLAC / ALAC / APE / WAV / AIFF / DXDVorbis comment / iTunes ilst / APEv2 / RIFF-INFO / ID3
LossyMP3 / MP2 / AAC / M4A / WMA / OGG / OPUSID3v2 / ID3v1 / iTunes ilst / ASF / Vorbis comment
DSDDSF / DFFID3v2
Cinema tracksAC-3 / DTSUsually none (raw elementary stream)
PlaylistsM3U / M3U8Text entries + #EXTINF
Disc imageSACD ISODetected only; inner tracks not expanded
This tool reads raw bytes: format from magic number + extension, parameters from each container's header, tags from each container's tag region, and cover art from each container's picture block (ID3 APIC / FLAC PICTURE / MP4 covr / APEv2 Cover Art / ASF WM-Picture). So even when the browser cannot play the audio (e.g. DSD, APE), the parameters and tags are still read.

2. How to read the numbers

  • Sample rate — samples per second. 44.1 kHz is CD, 48 kHz is film/streaming, 96 kHz and up is Hi-Res; a DSD figure (e.g. 2.8224 MHz) is a 1-bit bit rate, not a PCM rate.
  • Bit depth — quantisation precision. 16 bit is CD, 24 bit is studio/Hi-Res; DSD is always 1 bit.
  • Bitrate — data per second. 96–320 kbps is typical for lossy; for lossless (FLAC/ALAC/APE/WAV) it varies with content and is indicative only.
  • Duration — derived from samples ÷ sample rate; for VBR lossy files it is accumulated per frame and may differ by milliseconds.
  • The "Notes / validity" column — shows the usual range for that field; values clearly outside it are flagged , and fields with no note show N/A.

3. Privacy

All parsing happens locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.