Free mp3 tag id3v2 software for linux

Mp3tag is an Objective-Caml library which can be used in other tools to read, write or graphically edit tags (v1 or v2) in mp3 files.

mp3tag library comes with the mp3tag and cddbtag example tools.

The mp3tag tool included can be used to modify tags in mp3 files, or rename files according to tags.

The cddbtag tool included can be used to modify tags in mp3 files, by using a CDDB server to get artist, album and tracks corresponding to the given mp3 files.

The mp3tag tool

The mp3tag tool included can be used to modify tags in mp3 files, or rename files according to tags. Here are some examples of usage:
mp3tag file_1.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Print tags of the given files.

mp3tag -a "Les Cowboys Fringants" -l "Attache ta tuque" *.mp3

Set artist and album tags in all mp3 files of the current directory.

mp3tag -a "Les Cowboys Fringants" -l "Attache ta tuque" -t "Toune dautomne" -n 11 -g 102 file.mp3

Set artist, album, title, track number and genre tags in file.mp3.

mp3tag -e file_1.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Graphically edit tags in each given file.

mp3tag -r file_1.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Rename the given files according to their tags, with the default name format.

mp3tag -r -f 1 file_1.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Rename the given files according to their tags, with the predefined format "1".

mp3tag --formats

Print the list of predefined renaming formats.

mp3tag -F "%n - %t" file_1.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Rename the given files according to their tags with the given format. Here, each file will be renamed as < track number > - < title >.mp3. Where to use values of tags in a format is specified by %a, %t, %l, %n, %g, %c, %y.

mp3tag --copy -t "Le plombier" file1.mp3 file2.mp3

Copy tags from file1.mp3 to file2.mp3, but with a different title tag.

The cddbtag tool

The cddbtag tool included can be used to modify tags in mp3 files, by using a CDDB server to get artist, album and tracks corresponding to the given mp3 files. Here are some examples of usage:

cddbtag file_01.mp3 file_02.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Use the given files, in the given order, to build the discid, then query the CDDB server and, if information could be retrieved, set tags in the given .mp3 files.

cddbtag -t file_01.mp3 file_02.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Same as above but run in test mode: it prints the information retrieved but does not write tags in the files.

cddbtag -s mycddbserver.org -p 4000 file_01.mp3 file_02.mp3 ... file_n.mp3

Here we specify a different CDDB server and port to connect to.

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.

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.

MPEG::ID3v2Tag is a Perl module that parses and creates ID3v2 Tags for MPEG audio files.

SYNOPSIS

use MPEG::ID3v2Tag ;
use IO::File ;

# create a tag
$tag = MPEG::ID3v2Tag->new() ;
$tag->add_frame("TIT2", "Happy Little Song") ; # one step
$frame = MPEG::ID3Frame::TALB->new("Happy little album") ;
$tag->add_frame($frame) ; # two steps
$tag->add_frame("WCOM", "http://www.mp3.com") ;
$tag->add_frame("APIC", -picture_type => 0, -file => "happy_little_song.gif");
.....
$tag->set_padding_size(256) ;
print OUTFILE $tag->as_string() ;

# read a tag from a file and dump out some data.
$fh = IO::File->new(" binmode $fh;
$tag = MPEG::ID3v2Tag->parse($fh) ;
foreach $frame ($tag->frames()) {
print $frame->frameid(), "n" ; # prints TALB, TIT2, WCOM, etc.
if ($frame->flag_read_only()) {
print " read onlyn" ;
}
if ($frame->fully_parsed() && $frame->frameid =~ /^T.../) {
print " frame text is ", $frame->text(), "n" ;
}
if ($frame->fully_parsed() && $frame->frameid =~ /^W.../) {
print " url is ", $frame->url(), "n" ;
}
}

MPEG::ID3v2Tag is a class capable of parsing and creating ID3v2 revision 3 tags. While not all frames are fully supported, its easy to add support for more.
The object doesnt (currently) support modification of .mp3 files; the caller has to handle the mechanics of prepending the tag to the file.

M3Tk generates M3U playlists from MP3 files and edits ID3 tags. Wrote in Tcl/Tk, the M3Tk create the M3Us playlists from itens Genre, Album, Year and Artist. Scan the computer to search MP3s files and sort them in M3Us playlists. The editor can change (or include) informations about MP3 in one or several files at same time. Plus, you can manage the files names with the MP3 Renamer -- fast and practical. And may open the player, send the playlist to the player to play it or enqueue it. M3Tk has a installer/uninstaller GUI and has a simple and practical interface.
To install, change to directory where you extracted M3Tk package (e.g., cd ~/src/m3tk-2.2) and:
./m3tk-instal
And follow the screen instructions. If you desire to install on folder of ROOT permissions, run m3tk-instal as ROOT.
Enhancements:
- Fixed found errors and bugs.

GTag is a music tag editor for gtk+ 2.4.

GTag is a music tag editor for gtk+ 2.4. It supports ogg, mp3 and flac audio files. It uses the taglib library and also requires libglade.

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