debian man page for mid3v2

mid3v2(1)						      General Commands Manual							 mid3v2(1)

NAME
       mid3v2 - audio tag editor similar to 'id3v2'

SYNOPSIS
       mid3v2 [options] filename ...

DESCRIPTION
       mid3v2 is a Mutagen-based replacement for id3lib's id3v2. It supports ID3v2.4 and more frames; it also does not have the numerous bugs that
       plague id3v2.

       This program exists mostly for compatibility with programs that want to tag files using id3v2. For a more usable interface, we recommend Ex
       Falso.

OPTIONS
       -q, --quiet
	      Be quiet: do not mention file operations that perform the user's request.  Warnings will still be printed.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose: state all operations performed. This is the opposite of --quiet. This is the default.

       -f, --list-frames
	      Display all supported ID3v2.3/2.4 frames and their meanings.

       -L, --list-genres
	      List all ID3v1 numeric genres. These can be used to set TCON frames, but it is not recommended.

       -l, --list
	      List all tags in the files. The output format is not the same as id3v2's; instead, it is easily parsable and readable. Some tags may
	      not have human-readable representations.

       --list-raw
	      List all tags in the files, in raw format. Although this format is nominally human-readable, it may be very long if the tag contains
	      embedded binary data.

       -d, --delete-v2
	      Delete ID3v2 tags.

       -s, --delete-v1
	      Delete ID3v1 tags.

       -D, --delete-all
	      Delete all ID3 tags.

       --delete-frames=FID1,FID2,...
	      Delete specific ID3v2 frames (or groups of frames) from the files.

       -C, --convert
	      Convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags. This will also happen automatically during any editing.

       -a, --artist=artist
	      Set the artist information (TPE1).

       -A, --album=album
	      Set the album information (TALB).

       -t, --song=title
	      Set the title information (TIT2).

       -c, --comment=DESCRIPTION:COMMENT:LANGUAGE
	      Set  a comment (COMM). The language and description may be omitted, in which case the language defaults to English, and the descrip-
	      tion to an empty string.

       -g, --genre=genre
	      Set the genre information (TCON).

       -y, --year=, --date=YYYY-[MM-DD]
	      Set the year/date information (TDRC).

       -Tnum/num, --track=num/num
	      Set the track number (TRCK).

       Any text or URL frame (those beginning with T or W) can be modified or added by prefixing the name of the frame	with  "--".  For  example,
       --TIT3 "Monkey!" will set the TIT3 (subtitle) frame to Monkey!.

BUGS
       No  sanity checking is done on the editing operations you perform, so mid3v2 will happily accept --TSIZ when editing an ID3v2.4 frame. How-
       ever, it will also automatically throw it out during the next edit operation.

AUTHOR
       Joe Wreschnig is the author of mid3v2, but he doesn't like to admit it.

								December 12th, 2009							 mid3v2(1)