Tag your videos the way your Zune expects.

ZuneTag is a free Windows tool for editing the metadata on your .wmv files, so they show up correctly as Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, or generic Videos when synced to a Zune.

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Free · Windows 7 SP1+ · Latest release

Why videos land in the wrong category

A Zune decides whether a video is a Movie, TV Show, or Music Video by reading a pair of GUID-valued attributes baked into the file itself — WM/MediaClassPrimaryID and WM/MediaClassSecondaryID. Most tools that produce or re-encode WMV files never set these correctly, so files land in the wrong section of the device, or don't show up at all.

ZuneTag lets you inspect and fix a file's raw attributes directly, then fills in everything around them — title, description, genre, year, cast, cover art — to match.

What it does

Direct attribute editing

Reads and writes WMV metadata attributes via the Windows Media Format SDK, including the Zune-specific media-classification GUIDs.

Type-specific panels

Dedicated screens for Movie, TV Show, Music Video, and generic Video metadata, matching exactly what the Zune expects for each type.

TMDB-powered metadata

Built-in search against The Movie Database pulls in title, genre, director, description, and cover art — then copies it straight into the tag fields.

Automatic thumbnails

Generates a preview frame from the video file itself, so you can confirm you're tagging the right one before you save.

Built-in diagnostics

Logs diagnostic output to a local file, making it easy to troubleshoot a stubborn file or share details when reporting a bug.

Free & portable

A single, self-contained ZuneTag.exe with everything bundled in — no installer required, though one's available if you want it.

See it in action

ZuneTag's Meta Data panel showing Movie metadata and cover art for a loaded file — Type-specific metadata panel with cover art, ready to save.

ZuneTag's TMDB tab showing search results and details for a movie, with a Copy Details to Tags button — Search TMDB and copy results straight into the tag fields.

ZuneTag's Logging tab showing a timestamped list of diagnostic events — Built-in logging for easy troubleshooting.

Get ZuneTag

Current version: check the releases page

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Windows 7 SP1 or later.
.NET Framework 4.8 runtime — most current Windows installs already have this.
Windows Media Format SDK's WMVCore.dll, registered and present on the system (ships with Windows Media Player; installing the Windows Media Feature Pack resolves it on installs that omit media features).
An internet connection on first run, to download an FFmpeg binary for thumbnails and to search TMDB. No API key setup needed — one's already bundled in.