# Music Tag Desktop: reconstructing an Android music tagger for Windows

> Music Tag Desktop reconstructs the behavior of Android Music Tag 1.2.5.2 as a Windows music-tag editor. Its investigation traces Java code, the native libmain.so library, resources, and music-service request logic; the Python and PySide6 app handles local tags, lyrics, artwork, and metadata matching.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/QingZhu233/music-tag-desktop>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/QingZhu233/music-tag-desktop/blob/3435237150a71239f5d3b7e5fe15fc409d583436/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/music-tag-desktop-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/music-tag-desktop-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/music-tag-desktop-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The desktop application targets Windows 10 or 11 x64; source use requires Python 3.12 and uv.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports 122 passing tests and online end-to-end checks.
- **Limits:** Some online source endpoints are intermittent or may change; several desktop features remain on the roadmap.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/QingZhu233/music-tag-desktop/blob/3435237150a71239f5d3b7e5fe15fc409d583436/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/QingZhu233/music-tag-desktop/blob/3435237150a71239f5d3b7e5fe15fc409d583436/docs/REPORT.md>

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