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ID3(1) General Commands Manual ID3(1) NAME id3 - a command line mass tagger SYNOPSIS id3 [-v] [-m] [-123] [-d] [-t title] [-a artist] [-l album] [-n tracknr] [-y year] [-g genre] [-c comment] [-f template] [-q format] [-D file] [-R] [-M] [-E] [-s size] [-u] [-rFRAME] [-wFRAME data] "filespec" DESCRIPTION id3 mass tagger is a tool for listing and manipulating ID3 and Lyrics3 tags in multiple files. It can generate tag fields from the filename and other variables, and/or rename files, using an intuitive syntax. id3 currently supports old-style ID3v1 tags, Lyrics3v2, as well as the more complex ID3v2 format. This means its use is limited to audio files which use these formats, i.e. MPEG-1 Layer III. OPTIONS Order of the options is only important where specified. filespec ... specifies the file(s) to be affected by the command. When using wildcards, enclose the specification in quotes in order for pattern matching to work; see SUBSTITUTION below. -h, --help show command line help -V, --version display version number and copyright -v, --verbose be verbose -1 process/add ID3v1 tags. -2 process/add ID3v2 tags. -3 process/add Lyrics3 tags. If more than one tag type is specified, they are all written, and the left-most one that is found is used for variable substitution. If no tag type is specified, id3 will by default attempt to read ID3v2, Lyrics3 and ID3v1 tags in that order, only modify existing ID3v2 and Lyrics3 tags, and modify/add ID3v1 tags. -R, --recursive searches recursively; When this is enabled, `*' wildcards in file- spec will also match against directory separators. Normally, this is not the case. -M, --keep-time preserve last modification time of files operated on -X, --no-glob disable internal globbing; as a consequence, the pattern matching functionality will not be available. Use this switch to force the treatment of filespec arguments as simple filenames, which might be useful if id3 is being called by shell scripts or other programs -- force the following argument to be interpreted as a filename. Use this for files that start with a `-' (dash). Modifying operations The default operation of id3 is to list the tags found. By using any of the following options, this behaviour is inhibited. -d, --delete do not re-use existing tag data. If no new tag information is speci- fied in conjunction with this option, all selected tags will be re- moved. -t title, --title title -a artist, --artist artist -l album, -A album, --album album -n tracknr, -T tracknr, --track tracknr -y year, --year year -g genre, --genre genre -c comment, --comment comment add/replace the specified fields in all selected tags with the val- ues given. Field values are scanned for substitution variables, see SUBSTITUTION below. If a field value is a single variable, and its substitution fails, no operation is performed. Genres can be specified either verbatim or by using their assigned number, regardless of tag format. -f filename-template, --rename filename-template rename files encountered according to filename-template. The argu- ment is scanned for substitution variables. An empty variable will by default get replaced with "Unknown". Trying to rename to an al- ready existing file will cause an error. -q format, --query format for each file encountered, format will get scanned for substitution variables, and written to standard output. Using this option will block any attempt to modify files. -m, --match match mode; interpret any substitution variables (see SUBSTITUTION below) found in a filespec as a wildcard, and set the corresponding tag field to the matched portion of the filename. Thus, `id3 -m "%a - %t.mp3"' is short-hand for `id3 -a %1 -t %2 "* - *.mp3"'. -D filename, --duplicate filename duplicate and copy the tags found in filename to the target files. The tag in each target file is replaced after any variables have been read, but before any fields are updated. Any original tag values not explicitly written to the new tag (for example, by using -u) are lost. If filename does not have any tags, this option is identical to the -d option. -L, --list-genres produces a list of genres usable in ID3v1 tags, and their assigned numbers The following options only apply on the tag most recently selected before them, and only have meaning where relevant. -E, --if-exists only write a tag of the most recently selected type if a file al- ready contains it; do not add new ones. -u, --update update all standard tag fields by copying them from the source tag. This is similar to writing `-talnygc %t %a %l %n %y %g %c', but only operates on the most recent tag. It is possible for the source and destination tag to be the same. -s size, --size size try to write a new tag using exactly size bytes, adding / removing padding as necessary. The resulting tag will have no padding if size is smaller than the actual size necessary. -rFRAME, --remove=FRAME remove occurrences of frames named FRAME from the tag. Consult the format documentation for valid FRAME names. For text frames, it is equivalent to `-wFRAME ""'. -wFRAME data, --frame=FRAME data add / update a frame named FRAME with data in the tag. data is scanned for substitution variables. Again, consult the format docu- mentation. See COMPATIBILITY for more information. Short-form options can be stacked in a single argument for more conve- nience. For example, running id3 -2d -alt "Artist" "Album" "Title" *.mp3 is equivalent to: id3 -2 -d -a "Artist" -l "Album" -t "Title" *.mp3 SUBSTITUTION id3 can perform "printf-like" substitution on the values prior to writing them to a tag. Note that if you want to use pattern matching, you HAVE TO enclose the wildcard specification on the command line in quotes to prevent your shell from expanding any wildcards. \c escape sequence. \n, \r, \t, \v, \f, \b, \a, get replaced as in C, any other character will be stripped of any special meaning. E.g., \n becomes the newline character, \\ a single backslash. %<modifiers>N where N <- [0..9] replaced with the portion of the file path matching the nth `*' (as- terisk) wildcard in the file specification. 0 is taken to mean 10. %<modifiers>c where c <- [a..z] replaced by values according to the following table: %t title %a artist %l album title %n track number %y year %g genre %c comment field %f file name (without path) %p path to filename %x auto-increasing counter %X file counter Values get read (where applicable) from the source tag, which is the left-most tag selected on the command line, and reflect the state of the file before any modifications were made. If the source value is not available, the variable fails. "%_p%_f" combines to the raw full path and file name. The "%x" value gets increased every time it has been substituted inside the same directory, and is intended for auto-numbering. "%X" increases for every file processed. %<modifiers>{FRAME} replaced by the content of the FRAME frame in the selected source tag; any frame writeable with the -w option can be used; see COMPAT- IBILITY for more information. %% replaced with a single "%", equivalent to \% %|text||alt text||...|? substituted by the first text that was completely successful, or fails as empty, see fall-backs below. This can be used as an all-or- nothing substitution. A lone "%?" always fails. Available <modifiers> (optional): + (plus sign) Capitalize the substituted value - (minus sign) Convert all characters to lowercase _ (underscore) Use the raw value of the variable. Normally, substitution replaces any underscores with spaces, and condenses empty whitespace. * (asterisk) Split the variable into separate words by looking at the capitaliza- tion. # (hash or pound sign) Attempt to fit numeric values in the substituted string to a desired width, by removing or adding leading zeros. Multiple hash signs can be stacked to indicate the desired width. If there are no numeric values, this modifier has no effect. |fall-back| If substitution for a variable fails, attempt fall-back instead. fall-back itself may be empty or contain other variables (including other fall-backs). If fall-back contains variables that fail, the fall-back fails and will not be used. If more than one fall-back is provided, successive fall-backs are tried until one succeeds. EXAMPLES Here are some examples of using id3 : id3 -a "Stallman" -t "Free Software Song" fs_song.mp3" Add a simple tag to a file. id3 muzak.mp3 List tag information in a file. id3 -d *.mp3 Removes all ID3v1 tags from all mp3's. id3 -2 -1u fs_song.mp3 Copy ID3v2 tag to ID3v1 tag in selected file. id3 -D source.mp3 -1 -2 dest.mp3 Duplicate ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags of source.mp3 id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "%1" -t "%+2" "*. *.mp3" Update tag fields similar to this; -a "TAFKAT" -n "01" -t "My Song" "01. my_song.mp3" -a "TAFKAT" -n "02" -t "Untitled" "02. untitled.mp3" id3 -2 -f "%a - %t.mp3" blaet.mp3 Rename file to a standard format, using ID3v2 values. id3 -a %t -t %a "*.mp3" Swap artist and title fields in all mp3's. id3 -2 -rAPIC -s 0 *.mp3 Removes embedded images and padding from all mp3's. id3 -2d -u *.mp3 Rewrite ID3v2 tag while keeping only the basic fields. id3 -2 -wUSLT "foo, bar0alala!0 blaet.mp3 Adds an ID3v2 lyric frame to blaet.mp3. id3 -v -g alt-rock -alnt "The Author" %1 %2 %3 "Author - */(*) *.mp3" Process multiple directories at once. id3 -v -g alt-rock -a "The Author" -m "Author - %l/(%n) %t.mp3" Shorthand for the previous example. id3 -2 -c "Was: %_f" -f "%|Nobody|a - %|Untitled (%x)|t.mp3" "*.mp3" Rename with missing values replaced. Saves previous filename in the comments. id3 -2 -q "%|%{TPE2}||%{TXXX:ALBUM ARTIST}|?" Tries to print the "album artist" using two possible ID3v2 frames. id3 -2 -q "%| %a - %|Untitled|t || %t || %1 |?" "*.mp3" Generate a simple list of songs. NOTES The internal pattern matching emulates the normal pattern matching of "sh". It supports ?, * and []. A shell pattern will never match a forward slash ("/") or a dot (".") be- ginning a filename. Wildcards can be used for directories as well (to arbi- trary depths), in which case a search will be performed. In an ambiguous situation, the pattern matcher will always resolve a "*" wildcard to the shortest possible sequence of tokens. This differs from the behavior of regular expressions, however it tends to make sense in the con- text of filenames. Do NOT add ID3 tags to files for which it does not make sense, i.e, add them only to MP3 files. In particular, do not add ID3v2 tags to Ogg files, since ID3v2 tags start at the beginning of the file. COMPATIBILITY id3 has a built-in genre list of 192 genres. If you pass the -g parameter a string instead of a number when using ID3v1, id3 tries to find the speci- fied genre in this list, and selects the closest possible match (if any). For the genre numbers and exact spelling, use the --list-genres option. An empty or invalid genre is assigned the number 0. The ID3v1 format only supports to the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding. If you need other Unicode characters, you need to use ID3v2 tags. When using -2, id3 will write ID3v2.3 by default, unless a file is already tagged with the older ID3v2.2. id3 can read ID3v2.4 tags, but these will be converted to ID3v2.3 when modified. Furthermore, with ID3v2 tags, the -wFRAME option and %{FRAME} substitution only support the following ID3v2.2 (3 letter)/ID3v2.3 (4 letter) frames: T??/T??? (text), W??/W??? (links), COM/COMM (comment), IPL/IPLS (involved people), ULT/USLT (lyrics), CNT/PCNT (numeric play counter), POP/POPM (pop- ularimeter) and USER (tos, v2.3 only). Attempts to write ID3v2.2 frames to ID3v2.3 or vice versa will be ignored. Several ID3v2 frames can be specialized with additional descriptors (TXXX, WXXX, COMM, USLT). These can be read or written using the extended syntax -wFRAME:descriptor and %{FRAME:descriptor}. Descriptors are case sensitive and may contain whitespace. For frames that are language-specific (COMM, USLT), the form FRAME:descriptor:xxx may also be used, where xxx is a three letter ISO-639-2 language code. Which descriptors are meaningful is appli- cation-specific. id3 does not support unnecessary ID3v2 features such as compression, en- cryption, or embedding binary data (including image files). AUTHOR Written by Marc R. Schoolderman <info@squell.net>. COPYRIGHT This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO Program homepage: https://squell.github.io/id3 id3 mass tagger ID3(1)
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