Which MP3 tagging tool for Linux?
There are various:
- easytag has a lot of options
- kid3 if you're on a Qt/KDE environment
id3v2
oreyeD3
for the command line- Generally music players can also edit common tags, f.e.
banshee
,rhythmbox
oramarok
and a lot others, try searching your distributions repository and test some of them.
I mostly use mid3v2
. You can install it with sudo apt-get install python-mutagen
in Ubuntu or with sudo easy_install pip;sudo pip install mutagen
in OS X.
$ mid3v2 -h
Usage: mid3v2 [OPTION] [FILE]...
Mutagen-based replacement for id3lib's id3v2.
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose be verbose
-q, --quiet be quiet (the default)
-e, --escape enable interpretation of backslash escapes
-f, --list-frames Display all possible frames for ID3v2.3 / ID3v2.4
--list-frames-v2.2 Display all possible frames for ID3v2.2
-L, --list-genres Lists all ID3v1 genres
-l, --list Lists the tag(s) on the open(s)
--list-raw Lists the tag(s) on the open(s) in Python format
-d, --delete-v2 Deletes ID3v2 tags
-s, --delete-v1 Deletes ID3v1 tags
-D, --delete-all Deletes ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
--delete-frames=FID1,FID2,...
Delete the given frames
-C, --convert Convert tags to ID3v2.4 (any editing will do this)
-a "ARTIST", --artist="ARTIST"
Set the artist information
-A "ALBUM", --album="ALBUM"
Set the album title information
-t "SONG", --song="SONG"
Set the song title information
-c "DESCRIPTION":"COMMENT":"LANGUAGE", --comment="DESCRIPTION":"COMMENT":"LANGUAGE"
Set the comment information
-g "GENRE", --genre="GENRE"
Set the genre or genre number
-y YYYY[-MM-DD], --year=YYYY[-MM-DD], --date=YYYY[-MM-DD]
Set the year/date
-T "num/num", --track="num/num"
Set the track number/(optional) total tracks
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!".
Any editing operation will cause the ID3 tag to be upgraded to ID3v2.4.
id3v2
and id3tag
don't support Unicode and id3tool
and mp3info
don't support ID3v2.
I use Ex Falso. It was installed with QuodLibet music player, so I gave it a shot.
I've used it with single files, batches of files... It's pretty intuitive, and best of all, works very well.