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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MP3::Tag::ID3v1(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MP3::Tag::ID3v1(3pm)NAME
MP3::Tag::ID3v1 - Module for reading / writing ID3v1 tags of MP3 audio files
SYNOPSIS
MP3::Tag::ID3v1 is designed to be called from the MP3::Tag module.
use MP3::Tag;
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
# read an existing tag
$mp3->get_tags();
$id3v1 = $mp3->{ID3v1} if exists $mp3->{ID3v1};
# or create a new tag
$id3v1 = $mp3->new_tag("ID3v1");
See MP3::Tag for information on the above used functions.
* Reading the tag
print " Title: " .$id3v1->title . "
";
print " Artist: " .$id3v1->artist . "
";
print " Album: " .$id3v1->album . "
";
print "Comment: " .$id3v1->comment . "
";
print " Year: " .$id3v1->year . "
";
print " Genre: " .$id3v1->genre . "
";
print " Track: " .$id3v1->track . "
";
# or at once
@tagdata = $mp3->all();
foreach $tag (@tagdata) {
print $tag;
}
* Changing / Writing the tag
$id3v1->comment("This is only a Test Tag");
$id3v1->title("testing");
$id3v1->artist("Artest");
$id3v1->album("Test it");
$id3v1->year("1965");
$id3v1->track("5");
$id3v1->genre("Blues");
# or at once
$id3v1->all("song title","artist","album","1900","comment",10,"Ska");
$id3v1->write_tag();
* Removing the tag from the file
$id3v1->remove_tag();
AUTHOR
Thomas Geffert, thg@users.sourceforge.net
DESCRIPTION
title(), artist(), album(), year(), comment(), track(), genre()
$artist = $id3v1->artist;
$artist = $id3v1->artist($artist);
$album = $id3v1->album;
$album = $id3v1->album($album);
$year = $id3v1->year;
$year = $id3v1->year($year);
$comment = $id3v1->comment;
$comment = $id3v1->comment($comment);
$track = $id3v1->track;
$track = $id3v1->track($track);
$genre = $id3v1->genre;
$genre = $id3v1->genre($genre);
Use these functions to retrieve the date of these fields, or to set the data.
$genre can be a string with the name of the genre, or a number describing the genre.
all()
@tagdata = $id3v1->all;
@tagdata = $id3v1->all($title, $artist, $album, $year, $comment, $track, $genre);
Returns all information of the tag in a list. You can use this sub also to set the data of the complete tag.
The order of the data is always title, artist, album, year, comment, track, and genre. genre has to be a string with the name of the
genre, or a number identifying the genre.
fits_tag()
warn "data truncated" unless $id3v1->fits_tag($hash);
Check whether the info in ID3v1 tag fits into the format of the file.
as_bin()
$str = $id3v1->as_bin();
Returns the ID3v1 tag as a string.
write_tag()
$id3v1->write_tag();
[old name: writeTag() . The old name is still available, but you should use the new name]
Writes the ID3v1 tag to the file.
remove_tag()
$id3v1->remove_tag();
Removes the ID3v1 tag from the file. Returns negative on failure, FALSE if no tag was found.
(Caveat: only one tag is removed; some - broken - files may have many chain-loaded one after another; you may need to call remove_tag()
in a loop to handle such beasts.)
[old name: removeTag() . The old name is still available, but you should use the new name]
genres()
@allgenres = $id3v1->genres;
$genreName = $id3v1->genres($genreID);
$genreID = $id3v1->genres($genreName);
Returns a list of all genres, or the according name or id to a given id or name.
new()
$id3v1 = MP3::Tag::ID3v1->new($mp3fileobj[, $create]);
Generally called from MP3::Tag, because a $mp3fileobj is needed. If $create is true, a new tag is created. Otherwise undef is
returned, if now ID3v1 tag is found in the $mp3obj.
Please use
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
$id3v1 = $mp3->new_tag("ID3v1"); # Empty new tag
or
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
$mp3->get_tags();
$id3v1 = $mp3->{ID3v1}; # Existing tag (if present)
instead of using this function directly
SEE ALSO
MP3::Tag, MP3::Tag::ID3v2
ID3v1 standard - http://www.id3.org
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Thomas Geffert. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License, distributed with Perl.
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