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.
The clone introduces :
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. ktag clone update
For the past six months, I have been heads-down building a modern clone of —the legendary, lightweight, but increasingly fossilized tag editor. The goal? Keep the muscle memory of the original, but give it the spine of a 2026 application. Here is the long-overdue update on where the
Date: April 14, 2026 Status: Beta (Build 0.9.2) The Qt5 dependencies are getting long in the
| 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 |