Free id3 software for linux

gID3 is a GUI ID3 tag editor with a very nice user interface. It displays a list of all the files in a directory with the tag information, making it very easy to use. gID3 has a very nice user interface. Unlike other GUI id3 tag editors, gID3 displays a list of all the files in a directory with the tag info of each tag in one list making it very easy to use.
My goal is to make it the most usefull ID3 tag editor. I usually only make changes when I get feedback. So use it and give me some feedback.
MAKING:
type make
i havent tesed this on any machine except my linux box, but it should compile on any thing thats posix compliednt and has gnome properly installed.
INSTALLATION:
copy the binary file derived from making to /usr/local/bin or something like that.
Enhancements:
- fixed limit/boundary checks in the trim() function, which caused the worst segmentation faults;
- variable "recursive" initialized, which fixes other problems;
- code that changes "/" chars to spaces, since its a forbidden char for unix filesystems;
- the trim() function now uses isspace() instead of checking for spaces only, for the sake of completeness;
- remember the old dirname when the user selects .. in dirlist

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.

id3tool is a command line utility for easy manipulation of the ID3 tags present in MPEG Layer 3 audio files.
id3tool is a fully GPLd program. Warm-fuzzys are 100% optional.
id3tool was written as a test program for a small id3 stub Id written for the "Ultimate MP3 Player" which is still a concept, and no code
Having made a useful tool for setting ID3 tags [I hate GUI tag editors] I decided I might as well tidy it up and release it.
The ID3 tag stub was originally written under windows, using ANSI C, and copied over to linux where it worked perfectly first time.
id3.c can still be ripped out of id3tool to provide id3 tag manipulaiton functionality for other programs under the terms of the BSD License.
Originally, I wasnt going to have any Win32 support, but somebody submitted a patch - so Ive incorporated it with some `corrections.
ID3tool became available under the BSD license with 1.2.
Enhancements:
- fixed broken getopt string (should close debian bug #280180)
- fixed broken header reference (was annoying non-linux users)
- Actually tested win32 build this time
- fixed word wrapping in copyright notice.

ID3v2 allows to store the lyric of a song directly in the tag. Lyrics ID3 is a script for amaroK which uses this fact.

If the writing script runs, the lyrics of the actual song are stored automatically in the mp3-tag.

The reading script, is an amaroK lyric script, which reads the mp3-tag on a fetchLyric request.

The download able file contains two scripts:

read_lyric_from_id3: amaroK Lyric Script
reads the USLT frame of the id3v2 header and sends the lyrics to amarok

save_lyric_to_id3:
Stores the lyrics, fetched from amaroK to the USLT frame in the ID3v2 header
The Lyrics are automatically saved on trackChange and Play
With the context menu saveLyrik the Lyrics are stored manually

Warning:
(1) The lyrics are stored in the mp3-File. I can not guaranty that the file is not damaged after the ID3 writing process.
(2) The files are not checked if they are a mp3. So non mp3 files may be damaged after writing.

ID3iconv is a little Java command line tool to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files from whatever machine encoding you have to Unicode. It convert both ID3v1 tags and ID3v2 tags to Unicode-encoded ID3v2 (v2.3 or v2.4). This is sometimes useful because:
ID3v1 or v2 dont really supports multi-byte encodings such as GBK or Big5. Most existing files falsely pretend they are ISO-8859-1 encoded. This means the softwares handle them in all kinds of weird ways.
Even if the user can force the encoding in some players, it is then impossible to display tags of several international languages at the same time if files are so encoded.
I wrote this to convert all my mp3 files with Chinese (both simplified and traditional Chinese) tags to Unicode and play them using Rhythmbox under Linux. This is after much struggle with XMMS and other players that either cannot handle the large charsets GBK/GB18030 or cannot handle Chinese at all.
CAUTION: The tool updates mp3 files in place. You have to do a backup if you dont want to lose your precious music.
Enhancements:
- Bug fix: Under windows, cannot rename the output temp file to the original file name
- Bug fix: Conversion from v2 tag is using different encoding (big-endian UTF-16) from conversion from v1. Now both using little-endian UTF-16 for better compatibility.
- Added option to force using id3v1 tag even if v2 tag exists
- Added option to remove v1 tag after convertion

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.

Image::ExifTool::ID3 is a Perl module that can read ID3 meta information from MP3 audio files.

SYNOPSIS

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

This module contains definitions required by Image::ExifTool to extract ID3 information from audio files. ID3 information is found in MP3 and various other types of audio files.