MP3TAG(1) General Commands Manual MP3TAG(1)NAME
mp3tag - view and manipulate ID3v1 tags.
SYNOPSIS
mp3tag [ -s song ] [ -a artist ] [ -l album ] [ -y year ] [ -e comment ] [ -k track ] [ -g genre ] [ -r ] file [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the mp3tag command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the orig-
inal program does not have one.
mp3tag is a program that allows you to both view and manipulate ID3v1 metadata tags. Running the command with just a filename will display
the file's current tag. Setting some options will cause the tag to be updated and displayed.
OPTIONS -a artist
Set the artist name to artist. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
-e comment
Set the comment to comment. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
-g genre
Set the genre to genre. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 254 corresponding to the appropriate Winamp compatible genre
(use '-g list' to list all supported genres).
-k track
Set the track number to track. This is a single integer with a value of 0 to 255. Specifying this field truncates the comment field
to twenty-eight characters, as per the ID3v1.1 standard.
-l album
Set the album name to album. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
-r Merge new tag with any preexisting tag in the file.
-s song
Set the song name to song. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
-y year
Set the year to year. Strings over four characters are truncated.
EXAMPLES
Display foo.mp3's current ID3v1 info:
mp3tag foo.mp3
Set foo.mp3's artist to 'Bar', and album to 'Baz':
mp3tag -a Bar -l Baz foo.mp3
Set foo.mp3's year to 2001, merging it with any tag already present:
mp3tag -y 2001 -r foo.mp3
AUTHOR
mp3tag was written by Bram Avontuur <bram@avontuur.org>.
This manual page was written by Brian Boucheron <brian@boucheron.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
More info on ID3v1 can be found at <http://www.id3.org/id3v1.html>.
February 19, 2004 MP3TAG(1)
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ID3TOOL(1) General Commands Manual ID3TOOL(1)NAME
id3tool - a command line editor for id3 tags.
SYNOPSIS
id3tool [options] files ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is for the id3tool command.
id3tool is a program that can be used to view and edit id3 tags from the command line.
When invoked from the command line with filenames and no options, it will display the used fields of the id3 tags.
When invoked from the command line with filenames and "set" options, it will change the id3 tag fields specified to the specified values on
all the files.
Due to limitations in the ID3v1 specification, most fields are limited to 30 characters.
The note field is limited to 28 characters if a track number is in use.
You can force a tag to be v1.1 by using a specifying a non-zero track number, or force a tag to be v1.0 by specifying a track number of
zero (0).
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A complete list of options are
included below. For a complete description, use the help option.
-t, --set-title=WORD
Sets the title to WORD
-a, --set-album=WORD
Sets the album to WORD
-r, --set-artist=WORD
Sets the artist to WORD
-y, --set-year=YEAR
Sets the year to YEAR [4 digits]
-n, --set-note=WORD
Sets the note to WORD
-g, --set-genre=INT
Sets the genre code to INT (the codes can be acquired from the genre list.)
-G, --set-genre-word=WORD
Sets the genre to WORD (given that WORD is from the genre list.)
-c, --set-track=INT
Sets the track to INT
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-l, --genre-list
Shows the genre list.
AUTHOR
id3tool and this manual page were written by Chris Collins <xfire@xware.cx>
ID3TOOL(1)