MID3V2(1)MID3V2(1)NAMEmid3v2 - audio tag editor similar to 'id3v2'
SYNOPSISmid3v2 [options] filename ...
DESCRIPTIONmid3v2 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-q, --quiet
Be quiet: do not mention file operations that perform the user's
request. Warnings will still be printed.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose: state all operations performed. This is the opposite
of --quiet. This is the default.
-e, --escape
Enable interpretation of backslash escapes for tag values.
Makes it possible to escape the colon-separator in TXXX, COMM
values like '\:' and insert escape sequences like '\n', '\t'
etc.
-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 con‐
tains embedded binary data.
-d, --delete-v2
Delete ID3v2 tags.
-s, --delete-v1
Delete ID3v1 tags.
-D, --delete-all
Delete all ID3 tags.
--delete-frames=FRAMES
Delete specific ID3v2 frames (or groups of frames) from the
files. FRAMES is a "," separated list of frame names e.g.
"TPE1,TALB"
-C, --convert
Convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags. This will also happen auto‐
matically 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 omit‐
ted, 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=<YYYY>, --date=<YYYY-[MM-DD]>
Set the year/date information (TDRC).
-T,--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!.
The TXXX frame requires a colon-separated description key; many TXXX
frames may be set in the file as long as they have different keys. To
set this key, just separate the text with a colon, e.g. --TXXX "ALBU‐
MARTISTSORT:Examples, The".
The special POPM frame can be set in a similar way: --POPM "bob@exam‐
ple.com:128:2" to set Bob's rating to 128/255 with 2 plays.
BUGS
No sanity checking is done on the editing operations you perform, so
mid3v2 will happily accept --TSIZ when editing an ID3v2.4 frame. How‐
ever, 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.
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