In the past couple of weeks I have been dabbling with command line to tag and inspect tags of mp3 files. Linux has an abundance of tools to fill this niche and it’s confusing to know what to use. What follows are my conclusions.
id3: only handles 1.1 tags.
id3v2: does not handle 2.4 tags.
id3tool: does not handle 2.4 tags. Not maintained.
eyeD3: handles everything (especially 2.4 tags), has lots of options and seems to be supported.
So it’s fairly obvious what to choose. Please let me know if you have any more candidates to add to this list or you disagree with any of my conclusions.
Thank you for pointing out eye3D, up to now it is the only one command line id3 tag tool I know able to handle several encodings (useful e.g. for song names in cyrillic…).
Very useful post. Cheers
Link | December 29th, 2012 at 1:35 am
*eyeD3, sorry.
Link | December 29th, 2012 at 1:35 am
Thanks for listing a 2.4v capable tagger.
Link | February 2nd, 2013 at 1:39 am
eyeD3 did the trick but I’m going to give mutagen a shot now as it supports v2.4 ID3 tags as well as other tags.
Link | February 5th, 2013 at 2:01 am