MTag

The Music Tag Manipulator, MTag, is a music file tag manipulator by Hildigerr Vergaray using TagLib. It was designed to be lightweight and composable.

Options

Useage: mtag [-hvL] | [-l[separator]] [-n number] [-t title] [-a artist] [-A album] [-y year] [-g genre] [-c comment] [-x key] filename

• -h, --help Displays a help message.
• -v, --version Displays version information.
• -L, --list-genres Displays the canonical genres list.
• -l, --list Lists the file's tags as key value pairs.
• -n, --track Set the file's track number tag
• -t, --title Set the file's title tag
• -a, --artist Set the file's artist tag
• -A, --album Set the file's album tag
• -y, --year Set the file's year tag
• -g, --genre Set the file's genre tag
• -c, --comment Set the file's comment tag
• -x, --remove Remove an element with the specified key from the tag.

list separator

You can override the default tag listing separator (': '). For example -l= or --list== will separate the key value pairs with the = character.

Return Status

• 0 STATUS_OK
• 1 STATUS_OPTION_INVALID
• 2 STATUS_FILENAME_EMPTY
• 3 STATUS_FILE_INVALID
• 4 STATUS_TAG_EMPTY
• 5 STATUS_FILE_NOT_SAVED