MP3 tag editor?

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Hi all,
Does anybody know of a MP3 tag editor that can be used on a command line and be scriptable?

Thanks
Greyangel

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I would recommend checking Packman. They have a number of tag editors.

Cheers!

Romanator

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I used id3v2, seems pretty suitable for your purposes. You can find it in OSS repo.

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Thanks! That looks like it will do nicely.

Greyangel

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:06:01 +0000, greyangel wrote:

> Hi all,
> Does anybody know of a MP3 tag editor that can be used on a command line
> and be scriptable?

I use id3v2 - entirely command line.

Jim

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If you want gui, you might try EasyTAG (gtk) or Pinky Taggger (kde).

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Sorry, bad suggestion.

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Banshee has a GUI tag editor that would be great if I were fixing a single music album say. I get Audio books and copy them to the computer as MP3 so I can load them on my mp3 player and listen while commuting.

I could probably have fixed this up front if I knew what I was doing but I copied the audio CDs raw to the computer - Track1 Track2 …Track10 Track11. Three different books with from 5 to 14 cds each and up to 22 tracks each disk. Then the files were treated out of order. Not a big deal for a music album but really jacked up for an audio book… fixed the file names so they were managed in proper numeric order with some file scripting help from the good folks here, then converted them from .wav to .mp3 with jripper.

Imagine my dismay when I found that Jripper in its wisdom set all the id3 tags in the wrong order in spite of the leading zeros I added to the single digit file name beforhand… id3v2 came in handy here for batch editing the track numbers back to the correct sequence so my mp3 player will not mix up the chapters.

I’ve learned to manage all this in Windoze with media player but this is the first run in Linux for me. In Windoze, once you messed up the tags it was gui hell one by one. I do love nix shells :slight_smile:

Big thanks to the folks here for pointing me in the right directions
Greyangel