TAGLOOKUP(1) BSD General Commands Manual TAGLOOKUP(1)NAMEtaglookup — tags groups of audio files using CDDB
SYNOPSIStaglookup [-c cache_mode] [-s hostname] [-p port] [-P protocol] [-h]
command command_arguments file ...
DESCRIPTION
Tags MP3s and other taggable audio files. It inspects a set of files and
uses their lengths to look up an appropriate disc from a CDDB-compatible
service. Its behaviour is depends on the given command.
COMMANDS
id cddb_category cddb_id file ...
Look up the details of the CDDB disc from a CDDB service
using cddb_category and cddb_id file with each CDDB track
using the closest track length.
cddb_category
must be one of: blues, classical, country,
folk, jazz, misc, newage, reggae, rock or
soundtrack.
cddb_id must be numeric. Begin hex IDs with 0x.
sequence file ...
Uses files in order to generate a CDDB ID and queries a CDDB
service. CDDB IDs are generated based on the sequence of
tracks. Choose the closest matching CDDB disc to tag the
files.
rename template file ...
Renames files based the tages on template. These tags are:
%a is Artist
%g is Genre
%s is Song Title
%t is Album title
%y is Year; and
%n is Track number.
list file ..
List the current tags in files.
help Prints taglookup usage.
OPTIONS-c cache_mode
cache_mode = on, off, only
on check for cached result first, then connect to a ser‐
vice
off never use cached results
only only use cached results; never connect to a service
-h hostname
Hostname of the CDDB-compatable service.
-p port
Port to use for connecting to the CDDB service.
-P protocol
protocol = cddbp, http, proxy
Sets the protocol that taglookup will use to connect to the CDDB
service:
cddbp Uses the CDDB protocol. Defaults port = 888.
http Uses HTTP protocol. Defaults port = 80.
proxy Uses HTTP but connects to the proxy given by the
environment varaible, http_proxy. http_proxy must be
in the format:
http://user:password@proxy_name:proxy_port
-h Prints taglookup usage.
AUTHOR
Alex Allan <alex@kamaz.org.uk>
SEE ALSO
http://www.kamaz.org.uk/taglookup
October 28, 2007
