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mp3rename(1)

mp3rename1

Rename mp3 files based on id3tags

Usage

mp3rename [OPTION ...] [FILE ...]

Overview

mp3rename is a small tool to rename badly named mp3 files.

The generated file name can be based on the id3tags, title, album, year, track and/or artist.

Options

-f

Force non id3 rename.

-v

Verbose mode.

-h

Display this help message.

-b

Limit the file size to 32 chars.

-i

Only show the id3tags.

-p

Pad the track number with a leading zero when less than 10.

-a

Ask everything for the id3tag.

-s

Set the default look of the file. Available placeholders are:

&t

Song title.

&b

Album name.

&y

Album year.

&k

Track number.

&a

Artist.

The information is saved in ~/.mp3rename.

Examples

mp3rename -s '(&a)-&t-&b'

To rename files using the format (artist)-title-album.mp3.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 12 (Bookworm): the text shown here
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
  • Debian 3.0 (Woody)

-p since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Author

mp3rename was written by Sander Janssen <[email protected]>.

This manual page was generated by help2man and cleaned up by David da Silva Polverari <[email protected]> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).

From mp3rename 0.6-13+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.