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ID3 is a metadata tagging format normally used in MP3 music files. It allows you to save information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and cover art into the file music file itself.

ID3 is a metadata tagging format normally used in MP3 music files. It allows you to save information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and cover art into the file music file itself.

There are two unrelated versions of ID3: ID3v1 and ID3v2.

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How to read mp3 tags in shell?

Is there a way to read the mp3 tags of a file from the shell? Something like: mp3tags MyFile.mp3 author should output the author-tag of an mp3-file.
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Need a MP3 ID3 tagger, and cover fetcher

I need to tag my MP3 library, and have tried kid3 (which was manual tagging), when I used Kubuntu 9.10 (I now use Ubuntu Meerkat) Here are the features I am hoping for: A good and clean UI. Tagging should be automatic, like Winamp's autotag…
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How can I detect the BPM (beats per minute) of a song?

For some activities such as running it is important to know how many BPM a song has. I know that Banshee can do this but I couldn't figure out how to do this for a selected range of songs. Which tool can I use to detect the BPM and immediately tag…
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How to add columns displaying Audio and Photo (EXIF) metadata information into Nautilus list view

In Nautilus, I would like to add columns displaying metadatas contained in files. This is mostly useful with audio and pictures files: Audio : Artist, album, Track Title, Year ...(ID3 Tags) Photos : Date taken, Image resolution, Columns would be…
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Which music player can write ratings to tags, or: How to not lose my song ratings upon reinstall?

One thing that has always annoyed massively is that all my ratings get lost when I reinstall my system. And that happens often. I know from MediaMonkey for Windows that it is possible to write the rating to tags. Interestingly, when loading the…
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Cyrillic characters show as gibberish in rhythmbox

I have some Bulgarian/Russian songs which have Cyrillic characters in them. Nautilus displays them fine , but in rhythmbox all their id3tag info is displayed as gibberish. I have set the system language to Russian(UTF-8) . Downloaded some program…
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How to add ID3 "cover art" by command line?

I need to add ID3 cover art to some MP3 files. I need a command line tool (no GUI) but it seems that neither id3 nor id3v2 tools can do it. Any hint?
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ID3 Tag editor for 13.04 & later

I have found some ID3 tag editor in the web but unfortunately they are no longer available in 13.04 repository. Can anyone give me some recommendation for an ID3 Tag editor program? I need features like being able to tag lots of files at once and to…
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Music Manager that can properly see ID3 ratings tags and synchronize with Android

From my Windows music manager programs (either MediaMonkey or Windows Media Player) I could set song ratings in a way that the ratings set from either program could be also read from the other one. Additionally, song ratings were visible and updated…
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How to batch edit mp3 tag properties ubuntu?

I already installed Easytag on my Ubuntu but It's not good for editing multiple files. I want to change mp3 property information on multiple files. Does anyone know how to batch edit multiple mp3 files?
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Export Rhythmbox ratings and play counts to ID3 tags

Is there a way to export Rhythmbox ratings to id3 tags, or migrate them in some other way? Maybe some EasyTag or Puddletag reads Rhythmbox config files? Or is there a utility to do migration? Preferably also playcounts, although not sure if there is…
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removing all image metadata using the command line using metaflac

If an image/cover art is added to a flac file using metaflac --import-picture-from="/tmp/del/image_jpg.jpg" "/tmp/del/test.flac" I can delete all metadata from a flac file using metaflac --remove-all-tags "/tmp/del/test.flac" But the image remains…
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Tag-to-tag conversions in Puddletag

Using Puddletag's tag panel, I can create an Album name in the following format: George Orwell - Animal Farm I'd then like to create Title names using this format: George Orwell - Animal Farm 01 George Orwell - Animal Farm 02 George Orwell -…
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How to extract/inject ID3 tags via bash?

I have a huge collection of MP3 files that have ID3 metadata. Is it possible to extract existing tags and images to plain text (e.g. JSON, XML)? Can I inject from plain text to MP3 file? How can I do that only via-command-line
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A music player that can handle multiple artist tags

The mp3 format can handle multiple artists per track (in the form of "artist1\artist2"), and as far as I know other modern music formats can do the same thing. However, Rhythmbox (my default music player) seems to be capable of only reading the…
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