ID3 Tag CLI is a simple portable command line utility used for reading and editing ID3 meta information (tags) of audio and video files. It internally uses TagLib library.
- Allows read and modification of artist, title, album, year, track number and genre of MP3, OGG, FLAC, Speex, WavPack, TrueAudio, WAV, AIFF, MP4 and ASF files
- Supports Unicode on both Windows and Linux
- Is portable
- Is flexible
- Is easy to use
Usage: id3-tags-cli [options] file
-h | --help Prints this help and exits.
-v | --version Prints version information and exits.
-a | --artist [STR] Sets the Artist/Performer.
-t | --title [STR] Sets the Title/Song name/Content.
-A | --album [STR] Sets the Album/Movie/Show title.
-y | --year [INT] Sets the Year.
-T | --track [INT] Sets the Track number/Position.
-g | --genre [STR] Sets the Genre.
[STR] - String type
[INT] - Integer type
If no argument is specified, information of given file is retrieved.
If the option is not specified, the value is unchanged.
If the argument is empty string ("") (for [STR]) or 0 (for [INT]) the value is cleared.
Written by Zereges <https://github.com/Zereges/id3-tag-cli>
$ id3-tags-cli -a AC⚡DC -t Thunderstruck --album "The Razors Edge" -g "" acdc-thunder.mp3
$ id3-tags-cli adcd-thunder.mp3
Information for file adcd-thunder.mp3
Artist: AC⚡DC
Title: Thunderstruck
Album: The Razors Edge
Year: 0
Track: 0
Genre:
Get latest release from Releases page. Place it somewhere and optionally add it to the PATH.
You will have to compile the application from sources. See Compilation section for more info.
You will have to get (and compile dependencies). Then just use the provided solution (.sln) file.
Both use CMake build system.
Or you can download pre-compiled versions here id3-tags-cli-win32-deps.zip and extract them to root directory (MSVC is configured to look for headers and static lib files there).
Some distributions packages contains libtag1-dev which you can download and then just use make.
Otherwise, download and compile TagLib yourself and update Makefile accordingly.
ID3TagCLI is distributed under GLP-3.0. See LICENSE file for more information.