mid3v2 (1) Linux Manual Page
mid3v2 – audio tag editor similar to ‘id3v2’
Synopsis
mid3v2 [options] filename …Description
mid3v2 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 contains 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 automatically 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 omitted, 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 "ALBUMARTISTSORT:Examples, The".
The special POPM frame can be set in a similar way: –POPM "bob [at] example.com:128:2" to set Bob’s rating to 128/255 with 2 plays.