id3v2 (1) Linux Manual Page

id3v2 – Adds/Modifies/Removes/Views id3v2 tags, converts/lists id3v1 tags

Synopsis

id3v2 [ OPTION ] [ FILE ]

Options

-h, –help

Display help and exit

-f, –list-frames

Display all possible frames for id3v2

-L, –list-genres

Lists all id3v1 genres

-v, –version

Display version information and exit

-l, –list

Lists the tag(s) on the file(s)

-R, –list-rfc822

Lists using an rfc822-style format for output

-d, –delete-v2

Deletes id3v2 tags

-s, –delete-v1

Deletes id3v1 tags

-D, –delete-all

 Deletes both id3v1 and id3v2 tags

-C, –convert

 Converts id3v1 tag to id3v2

-a, –artist ARTIST

Set the artist information

-A, –album ALBUM

Set the album title information

-t, –song SONG

Set the song title information

-c, –comment DESCRIPTION:COMMENT

Set the comment information

-g, –genre num

Set the genre number

-y, –year num

Set the year

-T, –track num/num

Set the track number/(optional) total tracks

See Also

id3tag(1), id3info(1), id3convert(1)

Author

id3v2 is by myers <myers_carpenter [at] users.sourceforge.net> with major portions used from id3lib examples. Manual page written for Debian GNU/Linux by Robert Woodcock <rcw [at] debian.org>.