Free id3 tags software for linux

gtkid3tag is a small id3 tag editor for both ogg and mp3 files.

gtkid3tag is a really simple tool designed for quick editing of only small amounts of music files. The main feature is that both version 1.1 and version 2 tags can be manipulated and deleted separately.

ID3 mass tagger is a portable command-line mass tagger for audio files.
ID3 mass tagger is designed for non-interactively adding, updating or removing meta-information in a number of files with a single command.
It can generate tag fields from the filename and rename files using an intuitive syntax. It currently supports ID3 (1.1) and ID3v2 (2.0, 3.0) tags.
Exemple:
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 -d *.mp3
Removes all ID3v1 tags from all mp3s
id3 -g "psych rock" *.mp3
Sets genre to "Psychedelic Rock" all mp3s
id3 -2 -1 -u "*.mp3"
Copy ID3v2 tag to ID3v1 tag in all files.
id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "%1" -t "%+2" "*. *.mp3"
Update tag fields similar to this;
id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "01" -t "My Song" "01. my_song.mp3"
id3 -a "TAFKAT" -n "02" -t "Untitled" "02. untitled.mp3"
id3 -2 -f "%a - %t.mp3" blaet.mp3
Rename file to a standard "Artist - Title" format, using ID3v2 values.
id3 -g "alt rock" -a "The Author" -l %1 -n %2 -t %3 "Author - */(*) *.mp3"
Process multiple directories at once.
id3 -g "alt rock" -a "The Author" -m "Author - %l/(%n) %t.mp3"
Shorthand for the previous example.
id3 -a %t -t %a "*.mp3"
Swap artist and title fields in all mp3s.
id3 -D source.mp3 -1 -2 dest.mp3
Copy ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags of source.mp3 to dest.mp3
id3 -D source.mp3 -1u -2u dest.mp3
As above, but only replaces the non-standard or blank fields in dest.mp3 by data from source.mp3.
id3 -2 -rAPIC -s 0 *.mp3
Removes embedded images and padding from all mp3s.
id3 -2 -rAPIC -s 0 -R "*.mp3" "/my documents"
As above, but works recursively on all mp3s in the directory tree starting at /my documents
id3 -2 -q "%| %a - %|Untitled|t || %t || %1 |?" "*.mp3"
Generate a playlist, using the best possible text
id3 -2 -c "Was: %_f" -f "%a - %|Untitled (%#x)|t.mp3" "*.mp3"
Advanced rename. Saves previous filename in the comment field, and renames files without proper tags to;
Unknown - Untitled (01).mp3
Unknown - Untitled (02).mp3
... etc
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for Lyrics3 tags.

PGID3 is an ID3v1 and v2 tag editor for manipulating the information on files such as MP3s. PGID3 Tag Editor project is written in PHP and uses PHP-GTK, so it can take advantage of the GTK+ Toolkit for rendering a GUI.

The program itself is broken into three parts, a PHP Function Library called Pid Three (Pid3), a PHP CLI interface (PCLID3), and the GTK+ GUI itself. All three parts come together ready to go, so do not go freaking about uber amounts of dependencies to fill. All together they create the PGID3 Tag Editor.

"But Bob," you might say, "PHP is for the web!" Sure it is, but you should then check out the link below for the PHP Command Line Interface. That document describes using PHP to develop shell and desktop applications. Why PHP? Because I like to abuse it, that is a little hobby of mine.

Simply, PGID3 is an ID3 tag editor for MP3 files. The ID3 tags are what tell your media player the information about the tune such as title, album, etc. You can get by with slack tags if you just use a player like XMMS or Winamp, but if you have a portable like an iPod or some kind of database for the files, then correct and neat tags are a must. PGID3 can handle both the v1 and v2 of ID3 tags.

As for the program itself, it is the combonation of three seperate pieces that together work to create a user friendly envrionment to manipulate your ID3 tags. The base of it all is the Pid Three Function library, which is a fully custom set of functions for the reading and writing of ID3 tags. Since these are seperate from the application itself, the actual dirty work of messing with the data can be easily updated as well as easily included into other projects.

The second part of PGID3 is the Command Line Interface that I have lovingly called PCLID3. Using this you can manipulate your tags from the command line without using any type of graphical front end. By not having this built into the GUI, the opportunity is left open to build alternate GUIs, or even just not use any at all.

The third and final piece is the PHP-GTK GUI. This is the actual PGID3 component, though all of the parts together form a complete package under the PGID3 name. I designed this GUI to be light, compact, and solve as many problems in one spot as possible. As a bonus feature, PGID3 has built in intergration with QueryXMMS which is a command line utility for Linux that can ask XMMS what is currently playing so PGID3 can open it. This speeds up editing of playlists considerably.

Enough acronymns, what about features? Well, it is an ID3 editor so the features I would expect to find in one is what it has. It has the ability to read, write, and strip ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags from files. You can open a file from anywhere in the filesystem with a dialog, or using the above mentioned QueryXMMS integration you can zap right to whatever XMMS is playing.

If you leave the comment field blank when you write a tag, it fills it in automaticly with "Tagged by PGID3" which might be an easily disabled in future releases - depends if I get any feedback on that. It also automaticly removes excess whitespace on the end of tags which if I recall correctly happens because Winamp pads with spaces instead of nuls. Anyway it cleans that for you. Stripping a tag automaticly unchecks the related checkbox for writing it back, and the boxes are dynamicly checked as you load a file depending if it already has a v1 or v2 tag.

There are also a few keyboard shortcuts. F1 toggles the Write ID3v1 checkbox, and F2 toggles the Write ID3v2 one. F9 opens the currently playing file in XMMS, and naturally Enter writes tags.

libID3 is a small C library to parse ID3 tags. The project uses as little memory as possible, and has both DOM- and SAX-like models.
Enhancements:
- The license (BSD) has been properly documented, and the make system, versioned library, and test cases were cleaned up.
- A minor change was made to the API for loading files.

id3proc is a program for viewing and editing ID3 tags, that are placed at the end of MP3 files.

These are generic installation instructions for id3proc:

Check if all the values in Makefile are correct.
Type "make" to compile sources.
As root, type "make install" to install executable file and manual page.
Type "make clean" to remove created binary files.
If you want to remove the program from your system, type as root "make uninstall".It can be used for editing, adding and listing (as HTML and text) all of the data saved in those tags.

id3ren is used to rename batches of mp3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a comment. The secondary function of id3ren is a tagger, which can create, modify, or remove ID3 tags. The id3 fields can be set on the command line, or "guessed" from the path and the filename.
Main features:
- be used to rename you mp3
- be used to edit and tag your mp3
- be used to see the id3 tags
- get information from the filename to tag the files
- create directories when renaming
- support idv1.1 tags
- copy tags from another mp3
Enhancements:
- Added support for id3 v1.1
- Added automatic directory creation when renaming.
- Added a "-default" option to handle blank fields when renaming.
- Added the possibility to copy tags from other files.
- Changed the default "space" char to a more sensible " " when renaming.
- Uniformisation of the syntaxes of the different options. (all options can use = or next arg, with or without quotes)
- Different handling of the options in the resource file (same as commandline).
- Existing .id3renrc files might need an update.

MP3DB2 is a collection of bash scripts for keeping track of large MP3 collections. It will retrieve song information from the filenames and ID3 tags of a directory or CD of MP3s and store them in a local database.
This program is a complete rewrite of my MP3 database version 1. Version 1 only stored the data that was present in the filenames while version 2 actually retrieves information from the ID3 tags of each MP3.
Please note that as of this version the database format is NOT considered carved in stone. I have already added a few fields mid-development and this will continue for a while if I think the format can be made better. See the changelog for a list of changes to the database format since V2.0.
Enhancements:
- mp3dupe: now just displays the name of the directory we are checking not the full path in the host filesystem.

ID3V2.3 library is a library written in C to provide read and write access to ID3 tags.

ID3V2.3 library is designed to be very easy to use, and is meant to be compiled directly into your project. You can only access the most commonly used tag fields.

The source code is easy to read and well documented.

Example:

#include "genre.h"
#include "lib_id3v1.h"

main()
{
id3Tag tag;

strcpy (tag.artist, "Myartist");
strcpy (tag.album, "Myalbum");
strcpy (tag.title, "Mysong");
strcpy (tag.track, "12");
strcpy (tag.year, "2002");
strcpy (tag.comment, "Mycomment");
strcpy (tag.genre, "Mygenre");

set_id3v2tag(&tag, "/home/sam/myfile.mp3");
}

If you need more info, look into the header file, its really simple.