mid3v2(1)
NAME
mid3v2 - audio tag editor similar to 'id3v2'
SYNOPSIS
mid3v2 [options] filename ...
DESCRIPTION
mid3v2 is a Mutagen-based replacement for id3lib's id3v2. It supports
ID3v2.4 and more frames; it also does not have the numerous bugs that
plague id3v2.
This program exists mostly for compatibility with programs that want to
tag files using id3v2. For a more usable interface, we recommend Ex
Falso.
OPTIONS
- -f, --list-frames
- Display all supported ID3v2.3/2.4 frames and their meanings.
- -L, --list-genres
- List all ID3v1 numeric genres. These can be used to set TCON frames, but it is not recommended.
- -l, --list
- List all tags in the files. The output format is not the same as id3v2's; instead, it is easily parsable and readable. Some tags may not have human-readable representations.
- --list-raw
- List all tags in the files, in raw format. Although this format is nominally human-readable, it may be very long if the tag contains embedded binary data.
- -d, --delete-v2
- Delete ID3v2 tags.
- -s, --delete-v1
- Delete ID3v1 tags.
- -D, --delete-all
- Delete all ID3 tags.
- --delete-frames=FID1,FID2,...
- Delete specific ID3v2 frames (or groups of frames) from the files.
- -C, --convert
- Convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags. This will also happen automatically during any editing.
- -a, --artist=artist
- Set the artist information (TPE1).
- -A, --album=album
- Set the album information (TALB).
- -t, --song=title
- Set the title information (TIT2).
- -c, --comment=DESCRIPTION:COMMENT:LANGUAGE
- Set a comment (COMM). The language and description may be omitted, in which case the language defaults to English, and the description to an empty string.
- -g, --genre=genre
- Set the genre information (TCON).
- -y, --year=, --date=YYYY-[MM-DD]
- Set the year/date information (TDRC).
- -Tnum/num, --track=num/num
- Set the track number (TRCK).
- Any text or URL frame (those beginning with T or W) can be modified or added by prefixing the name of the frame with "--". For example, --TIT3 "Monkey!" will set the TIT3 (subtitle) frame to Monkey!.
BUGS
No sanity checking is done on the editing operations you perform, so
mid3v2 will happily accept --TSIZ when editing an ID3v2.4 frame. However, it will also automatically throw it out during the next edit
operation.
AUTHOR
- Joe Wreschnig is the author of mid3v2, but he doesn't like to admit it.