mp3tag1
View and manipulate id3v1 tags.
Usage
mp3tag [-s
song]
[-a
artist]
[-l
album]
[-y
year]
[-e
comment]
[-k
track]
[-g
genre]
[-r]
file
[file ...]
Overview
This manual page briefly documents the mp3tag command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original 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
-aartist-
Set the artist name to artist. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
-ecomment-
Set the comment to comment. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
-ggenre-
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 '
-glist' to list all supported genres).
-ktrack-
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.
-lalbum-
Set the album name to album. Strings over thirty characters are truncated.
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-r -
Merge new tag with any preexisting tag in the file.
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Set the song name to song. Strings over thirty characters are truncated. |
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Set the year to year. Strings over four characters are truncated. |
Examples
Display foo.mp3's current ID3v1 info:
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Set foo.mp3's artist to 'Bar', and album to 'Baz':
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Set foo.mp3's year to 2001, merging it with any tag already present:
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Releases
13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 1 time.
-r since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).