Apple - Is there a good command-line ID3 tool for OS X?
If you have Homebrew installed (highly recommended), you can just do:
brew install id3lib
This installs several id3 command-line tools, including id3tag
, id3convert
, id3cp
and id3info
. No need for python or perl scripting; just use regular shell commands.
Usage: id3tag [OPTIONS]... [FILES]...
-h --help Print help and exit
-V --version Print version and exit
-1 --v1tag Render only the id3v1 tag (default=off)
-2 --v2tag Render only the id3v2 tag (default=off)
-aSTRING --artist=STRING Set the artist information
-ASTRING --album=STRING Set the album title information
-sSTRING --song=STRING Set the title information
-cSTRING --comment=STRING Set the comment information
-CSTRING --desc=STRING Set the comment description
-ySTRING --year=STRING Set the year
-tSTRING --track=STRING Set the track number
-TSTRING --total=STRING Set the total number of tracks
-gSHORT --genre=SHORT Set the genre
-w --warning Turn on warnings (for debugging) (default=off)
-n --notice Turn on notices (for debugging) (default=off)
There's an OS X compatible version of the id3lib library available here on GitHub. It claims to support both ID3v1 and ID3v2.
The python module Mutagen is shipped with the command-line ID3 tool named mid3v2 replacement for id3lib's.
From the usage documentation :
You can set the value for any ID3v2 frame by using '--' and then a frame ID.
For example:
mid3v2 --TIT3 "Monkey!" file.mp3 would set the "Subtitle/Description" frame to "Monkey!".