Free id3v2 0.9708 software for linux

MP3::Tag::ID3v2 is a Read / Write ID3v2.x.y tags from mp3 audio files.

SYNOPSIS

MP3::Tag::ID3v2 supports * Reading of ID3v2.2.0 and ID3v2.3.0 tags (some ID3v2.4.0 frames too) * Writing of ID3v2.3.0 tags

MP3::Tag::ID3v2 is designed to be called from the MP3::Tag module.

use MP3::Tag;
$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);

# read an existing tag
$mp3->get_tags();
$id3v2 = $mp3->{ID3v2} if exists $mp3->{ID3v2};

# or create a new tag
$id3v2 = $mp3->new_tag("ID3v2");

See MP3::Tag for information on the above used functions.

* Reading a tag

$frameIDs_hash = $id3v2->get_frame_ids(truename);

foreach my $frame (keys %$frameIDs_hash) {
my ($name, @info) = $id3v2->get_frame($frame);
for my $info (@info) {
if (ref $info) {
print "$name ($frame):n";
while(my ($key,$val)=each %$info) {
print " * $key => $valn";
}
} else {
print "$name: $infon";
}
}
}
* Adding / Changing / Removing / Writing a tag
$id3v2->add_frame("TIT2", "Title of the song");
$id3v2->change_frame("TALB","Greatest Album");
$id3v2->remove_frame("TLAN");
$id3v2->write_tag();
* Removing the whole tag
$id3v2->remove_tag();
* Get information about supported frames
%tags = $id3v2->supported_frames();
while (($fname, $longname) = each %tags) {
print "$fname $longname: ",
join(", ", @{$id3v2->what_data($fname)}), "n";
}

MP3::Tag::ID3v2-Data can get_frame() data format and supported frames.

SYNOPSIS

$mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);
$mp3->get_tags();
$id3v2 = $mp3->{ID3v2} if exists $mp3->{id3v2};

($info, $long) = $id3v2->get_frame($id); # or

($info, $long) = $id3v2->get_frame($id, raw);

This document describes how to use the results of the get_frame function of MP3::Tag::ID3v2, thus the data format of frames retrieved with MP3::Tag::ID3v2::get_frame().

It contains also a list of all supported ID3v2-Frames.

get_frame()
($info, $long) = $id3v2->get_frame($id); # or

($info, $long) = $id3v2->get_frame($id, raw);

$id has to be a name of a frame like "APIC". See also L .

The names of all frames found in a tag can be retrieved with the L function.

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

Waif is a console audio unfrontend. That means that between the business of choosing the files to listen to and listening to them, there is no interface to hijack a controlling terminal, hog up screen space, or waste a perfectly good xterm.

It also ends the hassle of restarting a player moving from one display to another. Waif works all its magic in the background leaving you free to do more important work.

Waif is flexible and robust, supporting a wide number of file formats (MP3, Ogg, WAV, RealPlayer, MIDI, audio CD, and more) and a wide number of helper applications including mpg123, mpg321, ogg123, freeamp, and xmms.

Whats New in This Release:

ID3v2 is now supported with the ~/.waifrc configuration file entry:

id3v2=1

Id3lib and id3v2 are required for id3v2 support.

CD tracks listed in show output that have CDDB information will be aligned now, e.g.,

* Now Playing *
[ 1] (CD Track 2) Eric Clapton - Bad Boy
* show format : 9 - 10 *
[ 9] (CD Track 10) Eric Clapton - Dont Know Why
[10] (CD Track 11) Eric Clapton - Let It Rain

Are there any more show cases where alignment needs to be fixed?

MP3::Tag::Inf is a Perl module for parsing .inf files associated with music tracks.

SYNOPSIS

my $mp3inf = MP3::Tag::Inf->new($filename); # Name of MP3 or .INF file
# or an MP3::Tag::File object

($title, $artist, $album, $year, $comment, $track) = $mp3inf->parse();
see MP3::Tag

MP3::Tag::Inf is designed to be called from the MP3::Tag module.
It parses the content of .inf file (created, e.g., by cdda2wav).

parse()
($title, $artist, $album, $year, $comment, $track) =
$mp3inf->parse($what);

parse_filename() extracts information about artist, title, track number, album and year from the .inf file. $what is optional; it maybe title, track, artist, album, year or comment. If $what is defined parse() will return only this element.

As a side effect of this call, $mp3inf->{info} is set to the hash reference with the content of particular elements of the .inf file. Typically present are the following fields:

CDINDEX_DISCID
CDDB_DISCID
MCN
ISRC
Albumperformer
Performer
Albumtitle
Tracktitle
Tracknumber
Trackstart
Tracklength
Pre-emphasis
Channels
Copy_permitted
Endianess
Index
The following fields are also recognized:
Year
Trackcomment

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.

MP3::Tag::File is a Perl module for reading / writing files.

SYNOPSIS

my $mp3 = MP3::Tag->new($filename);

($title, $artist, $no, $album, $year) = $mp3->parse_filename();
see MP3::Tag

MP3::Tag::File is designed to be called from the MP3::Tag module.
It offers possibilities to read/write data from files via read(), write(), truncate(), seek(), tell(), open(), close(); one can find the filename via the filename() method.
parse_filename()

($title, $artist, $no, $album, $year) = $mp3->parse_filename($what, $filename);

parse_filename() tries to extract information about artist, title, track number, album and year from the filename. (For backward compatibility it may be also called by deprecated name read_filename().)

This is likely to fail for a lot of filenames, especially the album will be often wrongly guessed, as the name of the parent directory is taken as album name.

$what and $filename are optional. $what maybe title, track, artist, album or year. If $what is defined parse_filename() will return only this element.

If $filename is defined this filename will be used and not the real filename which was set by MP3::Tag with MP3::Tag-new($filename)>. Otherwise the actual filename is used (subject to configuration variable decode_encoding_filename).

Following formats will be hopefully recognized:

- album name/artist name - song name.mp3
- album_name/artist_name-song_name.mp3
- album.name/artist.name_song.name.mp3
- album name/(artist name) song name.mp3
- album name/01. artist name - song name.mp3
- album name/artist name - 01 - song.name.mp3

If artist or title end in (NUMBER) with 4-digit NUMBER, it is considered the year.
title()

$title = $mp3->title($filename);

Returns the title, guessed from the filename. See also parse_filename(). (For backward compatibility, can be called by deprecated name song().)

$filename is optional and will be used instead of the real filename if defined.

artist()

$artist = $mp3->artist($filename);

Returns the artist name, guessed from the filename. See also parse_filename()

$filename is optional and will be used instead of the real filename if defined.

track()

$track = $mp3->track($filename);

Returns the track number, guessed from the filename. See also parse_filename()

$filename is optional and will be used instead of the real filename if defined.

year()

$year = $mp3->year($filename);

Returns the year, guessed from the filename. See also parse_filename()

$filename is optional and will be used instead of the real filename if defined.

album()

$album = $mp3->album($filename);

Returns the album name, guessed from the filename. See also parse_filename() The album name is guessed from the parent directory, so it is very likely to fail.

$filename is optional and will be used instead of the real filename if defined.
comment()

$comment = $mp3->comment($filename); # Always undef

genre()

$genre = $mp3->genre($filename); # Always undef

&MP3FS is A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. This was written to enable me to use my FLAC collection with software and/or hardware which only understands MP3. e.g. gmediaserver to a netgear MP101 mp3 player.
MP3FS is also a novel alternative to traditional mp3 encoder applications. Just use your favorite file browser to select the files you want encoded and copy them somewhere!
How it Works:
When a file is opened, the decoder and encoder are initialised and the file metadata is read. At this time the final filesize can be determined as we only support constant bitrate mp3s.
ID3v2 tags are created from the vorbis comments in the flac file. They are located at the start of the file. As such, an application scanning a directory to read tags should not cause too much of a performance hit as the actual encoder does not need to be invoked (depending on how much data the read asks for).
A special exception to this is when an application tries to read the very last block first. Many applications do this to look for an id3v1 tag (stored in the last 128 bytes of the file). When this is detected, the filesystem simply return zeros (I dont support id3v1 tags). This dramatically speeds up applications, however it could potentially lead to corrupt mp3 files if the zeros are still in kernel cache when the application comes back to read the actual audio sequentially. In my experimentation this has not happened, I always get another read for the final block.
As the file is read, it is transcoded into an internal per-file buffer. This buffer continues to grow while the file is being read until the whole file is transcoded in memory. The memory is freed only when the file is closed. This simplifies the implementation.
Seeking within a file will cause the file to be transcoded up to the seek point (if not already done). This is not usually a problem since most programs will read a file from start to finish. Future enhancements may provide true random seeking.
For build instructions see INSTALL
Usage:
mount your filesystem like this: (you will probably have to be root)
mp3fs musicdir bitrate mountpoint [-o fuse_options]
e.g.:
mp3fs /mnt/music 256 /mnt/mp3 -o allow_other,ro
Here are the original files:
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ ls -l /mnt/music/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/
total 345732
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 10267876 2005-06-19 18:36 01 - Soothe.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 23512276 2005-06-19 18:36 02 - Frail And Bedazzled.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 23332187 2005-06-19 18:36 03 - Plum.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 26402936 2005-06-19 18:36 04 - Whir.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 21591252 2005-06-19 18:36 05 - Blew Away.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 16719855 2005-06-19 18:36 06 - Pissant.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 33454889 2005-06-19 18:36 07 - Hello Kitty Kat.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 32073747 2005-06-19 18:36 08 - Obscured.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 17614217 2005-06-19 18:36 09 - Landslide.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 65406696 2005-06-19 18:36 10 - Starla.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 18651734 2005-06-19 18:36 11 - Blue.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 25055200 2005-06-19 18:36 12 - Girl Named Sandoz.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 28060023 2005-06-19 18:36 13 - La Dolly Vita.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 11432008 2005-06-19 18:36 14 - Spaced.flac
And now you can use the (virtual) mp3 files from the MP3FS mountpoint:
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ ls -l /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/
total 345732
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2446849 2005-06-19 18:36 01 - Soothe.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3197934 2005-06-19 18:36 02 - Frail And Bedazzled.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3467503 2005-06-19 18:36 03 - Plum.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4003745 2005-06-19 18:36 04 - Whir.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3414845 2005-06-19 18:36 05 - Blew Away.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2413413 2005-06-19 18:36 06 - Pissant.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4348572 2005-06-19 18:36 07 - Hello Kitty Kat.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 5132656 2005-06-19 18:36 08 - Obscured.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3099704 2005-06-19 18:36 09 - Landslide.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 10542719 2005-06-19 18:36 10 - Starla.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3210041 2005-06-19 18:36 11 - Blue.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3449127 2005-06-19 18:36 12 - Girl Named Sandoz.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4098213 2005-06-19 18:36 13 - La Dolly Vita.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2337344 2005-06-19 18:36 14 - Spaced.mp3
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ id3info /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3
*** Tag information for /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3
=== TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): LAME v3.96.1
=== TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Soothe
=== TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Smashing Pumpkins
=== TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Pisces Iscariot
=== TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1
*** mp3 info
MPEG1/layer III
Bitrate: 128KBps
Frequency: 44KHz
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ time cp /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3 /tmp/
real 0m12.917s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.020s
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ xmms /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/*
Enhancements:
- A segfault and several memory leaks were fixed.