I’ve while ago, I wrote about the noticeable lack of free-form tagging in iTunes. Well, a friend of mine shared my frustration, and decided to do something about it (for mac users anyway). It does everything I was looking for, making it easy to create extremely customised playlists.

Here are some of the features you’ll find in Quick Tag:

  • Tag songs in iTunes for easy organization and better smart playlists!
  • Launch Quick Tag with a user definable global hot key
  • Existing tags are auto-suggested when entering a song’s tags
  • Existing tags can be read from iTunes for auto-suggestions
  • Tags are saved to either the ‘grouping’ or ‘comment’ field in iTunes
  • Configure how your tags are stored internally in iTunes
  • Support for existing internal tag formats
  • Optionally, starts playing a specified playlist in iTunes upon activation
  • Multi-word tags are supported
  • Displays information about the song you are currently tagging
  • Lightweight and easy to use

You can get a free copy of Quick Tag at Sean McGrath’s site.