Date: April 14, 2026 Status: Beta (Build 0.9.2)
Here is the long-overdue update on where the project stands, what broke, what got better, and why you should care about ID3v2.4 again. KTag is perfect. It is also showing its age. The Qt5 dependencies are getting long in the tooth, the undo stack has occasional hiccups with nested MP4 containers, and cross-platform builds (looking at you, Windows ARM) are becoming a circus act.
| Tool | Time | RAM Peak | File Corruption? | |------|------|----------|------------------| | Old KTag (Qt5) | 22 sec | 890 MB | 0 | | MusicBrainz Picard | 45 sec | 1.2 GB | 0 | | | 8 sec | 210 MB | 0 |
If you have ever spent a Sunday afternoon trying to convince a music player that “Featuring Artist” is not actually the “Album Title,” you know the pain of metadata hell.
So, (placeholder name: Tagger’s Delight ) is not a fork—it is a ground-up rewrite in Rust + Slint UI (yes, not Qt). It reads the same ID3, Vorbis Comments, and MP4 atoms, but it does so without holding the entire music library in RAM.