ID3REN(1)

NAME

id3ren - Reads and writes ID3 tags from mp3 files.

SYNOPSIS

id3ren       [-help]       [-song=SONG_NAME]      [-artist=ARTIST_NAME]
[-album=ALBUM_NAME] [-year=YEAR] [-genre={#  |  GENRE}]  [-comment=COM-
MENT]    [-track=TRACK]    [-showgen]    [-searchgen={#    |    GENRE}]
[-default=DEFAULT] [-copytagfrom=FILE [-copysong] [-copyartist] [-copy-
album]  [-copyyear] [-copygenre] [-copycomment] [-copytrack] [-copyall]
] [-quick]  [-noalbum]  [-nocomment]  [-noyear]  [-nogenre]  [-notrack]
[-tag]  [-edit]  [-notagprompt  |  -showtag  |  -striptag  |  -tagonly]
[-nocfg] [-log] [-quiet] [-verbose] [-defcase | -lower | -upper] [-rem-
char=CHARS]   [-repchar=CHARS]   [-space=STRING]   [-tagfromfilename  |
-tagffn] [-tagtemplate=TAGTEMPLATE] [-template=TEMPLATE] [FILE1 FILE2..
| WILDCARDS]

COPYRIGHT

id3 Renamer

(C) Copyright 1998 by Robert Alto (badcrc@tscnet.com)
(C) Copyright 2001 Christophe Bothamy (cbothamy@free.fr)

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-album ALBUM_NAME

Sets the album name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this album name without prompting.

-album=ALBUM_NAME

Sets the album name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this album name without prompting.

-artist=ARTIST_NAME

Sets the artist name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this artist name without prompting.

-comment=COMMENT

Sets the comment to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this comment without prompting.

-copyalbum

Copies the album field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copyall

Copies all the fields from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copyartist

Copies the artist field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copycomment

Copies the comment field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copygenre

Copies the genre field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copysong

Copies the song field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copytagfrom=FILE

Sets the filename to copy tag field from.

-copytrack

Copies the track field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-copyyear

Copies the year field from the source file tag set by -copytagfrom

-defcase

Use the default case of characters from the ID3 tag when renaming files. This is default.

-default=DEFAULT

Sets the default field to be used only when renaming if a field is blank. Useful when renaming and creating "unknown" subdirectories.

Defaults to "unknown".

-edit If a file already has a tag and you want to change just one spe

cific field of the tag, use this option in conjunction with -tag and the option for the field you want to change. For example to change just the album name of a file: id3ren -tag -edit -album="New Album Name" sample.mp3

* This option is a toggle.

-genre=# | GENRE_NAME

Sets the genre to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this genre without prompting. To see a list of allowable genres use the -showgen argument. -genre accepts either the number of the genre as displayed with -showgen, or the name of the genre.

-help Displays the help screen.

-log Log most output to id3ren.log.

* This option is a toggle.

-lower Convert file names to lowercase characters.

-noalbum

Don't prompt for the album when adding a tag.

* This option is a toggle.

-nocfg Don't try reading any config files, even if they exist.

* This option is a toggle.

-nocomment

Don't prompt for a comment when adding a tag.

* This option is a toggle.

-nogenre

Don't prompt for a genre when adding a tag.

* This option is a toggle.

-notagprompt

Never prompt for tag information. Files without tags are skipped.

* This option is a toggle.

-notrack

Don't prompt for the track number when adding a tag.

* This option is a toggle.

-noyear

Don't prompt for the year when adding a tag.

* This option is a toggle.

-quick Automatically sets -noalbum, -nocomment, and -noyear.

-quiet Run quietly, displaying only errors or prompts.

* This option is a toggle.

-remchar=CHARS

CHARS indicates a string of characters that will be removed from the filename if found.

-repchar=CHARS

CHARS indicates a string of characters, EACH followed by the character to replace it with. For example, to replace all plus '+' signs with a hyphen all '&' with '_', you would use '-repchar +-&_'.

-searchgen=# | GENRE

Searches the list of genres and displays either the genre name corresponding to #, or shows all substring matches of GENRE.

-showgen

Displays all the music genres currently in the program.

-showtag

Display the tags for the specified files. No renaming is performed.

-song=SONG_NAME

Sets the song name to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this song name without prompting.

-space=PSTRING

Change all spaces in the renamed file to STRING. To remove all spaces, use

-striptag

Remove the tags for the specified files.

* This option is a toggle.

-tag Always ask for a tag, even if the file already has one.

* This option is a toggle.

-tagfromfilename, -tagffn

Use informations from the filename when tagging. See tagtemplate.

* This option is a toggle.

-tagonly

Don't rename any files, just ask for tag information. Note that -tagonly only asks for tag information on files that don't have a tag already. To have it ask for a tag on all files, use with -tag.

* This option is a toggle.

-tagtemplate=TEMPLATE

Use TEMPLATE as the basis for tagging files. The default template used is '[%a]-[%s].mp3'. Identifiers that can be used in the template are:

%a - Artist name
%c - Comment
%s - Song name
%t - Album title
%n - Track Number
%y - Year
%g - Genre
%d - Dummy

It is a VERY good idea to have fixed separators between fields.

-template=TEMPLATE

Use TEMPLATE as the basis for renaming files. The default template used is '[%a]-[%s].mp3'. Identifiers that can be used in the template are:

%a - Artist name
%c - Comment
%s - Song name
%t - Album title
%n - Track Number
%y - Year
%g - Genre

-track=TRACK

Sets the track number to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this track number without prompting. TRACK must be an integer between 1 and 99.

-upper Convert file names to uppercase characters.

-verbose

Display more messages than usual.

* This option is a toggle.

-year=YEAR

Sets the year to use when tagging files. All files will be tagged with this year without prompting.

And of course the program accepts wildcards for filenames.

FILES

*.mp3 All your mp3 files

SEE ALSO

lame(1), xmms(1), mpg123(1), mp3blaster(1)

BOGUS

If you have questions, comments, or bug reports, please contact cbothamy@free.fr To get the latest version, please visit http://cbothamy.free.fr/projects/id3ren/

14 july 2001 ID3REN(1)