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ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format.

ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself. There are two unrelated versions of ID3: ID3v1 and ID3v2.

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Auto-tagging MP3s

I have a ton of MP3s, but their ID tags are not filled in. Going in manually to populate them is simply too much work. I was wondering if there is a way to populate them automatically. Perhaps by feeding the MP3s to Shazam or Midori or something…
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Command line tool for listing ID3 tags under Linux

I want to write a script that manipulates ID3 tags of mp3 files. I need a tool that reads the tags and outputs it in a format in a machine-readable format. For example, if I want it to output only the title, then it outputs the title, nothing else.…
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How to compare mp3, flac audio data in a file, ignoring header data (ID3 tag) etc.?

I've backed up some audio files up in 2 places and added ID3 tags into one backup but not the other, since time has passed my own memory has faded on whether the backups are actually the same, but now one has ID3 data and the other doesn't, basic…
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Repair encoding of ID3 tags

I have inherited about 2000 MP3 files. For the majority of them, their ID3 tags display garbled in Amarok. I need a software that upgrades the ID3 tags to v2.4 type $03 (i.e. UTF-8 encoding), removes any v1 tags, and is also smart about figuring out…
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Windows: What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags?

What software do you recommend for editing MP3 ID3 tags? (The OS is Windows XP.)
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Setting ID3 title tag to be equal to MP3 file name

Has anyone got a bash script that will go through a media library and set the id3 title tag of each MP3 file to be equal to the file's name? I'm open to other automated methods too. It can be a GUI application or anything that will do the job…
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Command-line ID3 tag editor that handles all tags

I am looking for a tool to edit tags in MP3s through a script. The files are episodes of several podcasts where the tags are inconsistent between episode: Sometimes the Album or Genre tag is missing for example. The script will run after new…
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Linux command line tool to batch rename MP3 files based on ID3 tag info, or give random name if no ID3 info present

I have a bunch of recovered mp3 files that have system generated filenames. I want to use any embedded ID3 tag info in the files to rename each one to something human readable. I've tried 'mp3rename' from the debian apt repo but it doesn't handle…
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How to store iTunes cover art as mp3 id tag?

iTunes shows nice cover arts for all my mp3 songs. Unfortunately most of them are stored in the iTunes data base and not as mp3 id tags. This makes them useless, if I use the mp3 files with other software and devices. Is there a way to force iTunes…
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Is there a command-line tool that converts tags to id3v2.3?

I've recently been ripping more of my CDs and have noticed that there seems to be no command-line tool that allows for converting to id3v2.3. The only tool I've found that can actually even properly fix my tags (The tagger rip, the script I use for…
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How to manually set a cover in Musicbrainz Picard?

Is it possible to manually set a cover for a given MP3 file instead of letting the program automatically fetching it from the web? I have noticed that I can alter every other field to my liking before saving the tags to file, but I can't manage to…
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Matching ID3 Tags to Existing Files

I have a collection of ripped CDs that were transcoded to a very low bitrate. (and I lost the original MP3s) I'd like to re-rip the CDs to a higher bitrate, and apply the ID3 tags from the existing rips to the new files. (These are custom tags;…
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How to automatically fix MP3 Genre and Year tags?

All the Artist/Album tags on my MP3 collection are fine, but the Genres and Year tags are all horrendous. For Genre, songs just seem to be all over the place. It classifies Iron Maiden is Alternative, Ozzy as Oldies, and Pink Floyd as Pop. Year is…
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Software to detect mp3 almost-duplicates?

Because of some unfortunate circumstances I noticed I irrevertibly mixed up my sorted and retagged mp3s with an old backup. That means now I have files that are basically duplicates except for the id3 tags and paths. FSlint does a nice job of…
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Editing MP3 details in Windows 7

I've recently discovered an annoying problem with Windows 7: Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player cannot edit ID3 tags if the version used is 2.4 (and presumably above, and sometimes even v2.3 - bah!). It just doesn't work! Does anyone know of…
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