This is fme — flexible metadata editor. You can supply files both as
arguments and as piping from other command like find or ls.
If fme fails to get metadata for given file or fails to write extracted
metadata to it, fme will just print a error message and will continue to the
next file.
You can install it by first downloading cargo (for installlation
instructions see here). And then
running
cargo install --git https://github.com/andreykaere/fmeAlternatively, you can grab compiled binary suited for your system from the release page.
Usage: fme [OPTIONS] [FILES]...
Arguments:
[FILES]...
Options:
-t, --title <TITLE> Write specified value to the 'title' tag
-a, --artist <ARTIST> Write specified value to the 'artist' tag
--album-title <ALBUM_TITLE> Write specified value to the 'album' tag [aliases: at]
--album-cover <ALBUM_COVER> Set the image, located at the given path, as an album cover [aliases: ac]
-y, --year <YEAR> Write specified value to the 'year' tag
--track-number <TRACK_NUMBER> Write specified value to the 'track number' tag [aliases: tn]
-p, --parse <PARSE> Derive metadata information from the filename using specified patterns
-e, --regex <REGEX> Try to apply regex to the filename and writes matched groups to special tokens
-h, --help Print help (see more with '--help')
-V, --version Print version
It is recommended to use rnr utility to
rename files beforehand if you need it (it might be useful if you download it,
for example, from some youtube playlist and you want it to format first,
before using --parse option).
- Manually specification
fme "Foo - Bar.mp3" -a Foo -t Bar
- Parsing mode, using default parsers:
fme "Foo - Bar.mp3"
In this case, the result will be as in previous example. Here we didn't use
--parse option, because this pattern is one of the default ones and
therefore does not need to be specified manually. For the complete list of
default patterns see fme --help in the --parse option section.
Note: Sometimes the order of the default parsers won't give you the
desired result. For example if you want to parse 50 Cent - In Da Club.mp3,
than you would have to run fme -p '{a} - {t}' "50 Cent - In Da Club.mp3
manually. Because default patterns would parse 50 as the number of the song
in the album.
- Unknown to the parser pattern. This time we have to specify it manually:
fme -p '{d}. {a} - {t} [{m}]' "12. Foo - Bar [Quuz].mp3"
- Multiple patterns:
fme -p '{d}. {a} - {t} [{m}]' -p '{a} - {t}' "12. Foo - Bar [Quuz].mp3" "Baz -
Foobar.mp3"
- Regex
fme -e '(\d+)\. (\w+) - (\w+) \[(\w+)\]' --tn '${1}' -a '${2}' -t '${3}' --at '${4}' "12. Foo - Bar [Quuz].mp3"
Here is represented one of the typical examples where fme comes in handy
along with other tools. Let's say that we want to turn this
video to an album of audio files with built-in
names of songs, artist year and album cover. Of course, doing it by hands
will take eternity! So, we start off with downloading it as audio file using
yt-dlp:
yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://youtu.be/A4lTUgJWNIwOnce we have this audio file, we can use amazing tool
album-splitter to split this
big audio file into the audio files; each of them represents a single track.
(album-splitter requires a file with time stamps, where you need the initial
mp3 file to be split at. This can be easily found in the description or
comments). Once you have the files, you might want to rename some of them
using already mentioned rnr tool. Now, finally, you need to run, for
example, this command in the folder where the files are located:
ls *.mp3 | fme --ac cover.jpg -y 2023 --at 'Tomorrowland 2023'where cover.jpg is the album cover that you would like to put (e.g can be
taken to be the same as thumbnail to the video).
Viola! Just using a few commands we created an album! We can then send it whoever we want! :)